Example sentences of "[v-ing] the amount [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHARITIES are losing money not so much because of the practice of suggesting the amount of donations but because they impose such high postal charges on the goods they offer . |
| 2 | Simple sieving , on its own , is obviously nowhere near capable of generating the amount of order in a living thing . |
| 3 | So yet again , the budget was reflecting the amount of money necessary to maintain existing services . |
| 4 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 5 | I mean , seeing the amount of kids that do go out there , and the state of the changing rooms that they are using at the moment , I , I think it 's really degrading . |
| 6 | EC Evans-Lombe QC , sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge , referred to the ‘ relevant ’ part of s 349(1) : ‘ … the person by or through whom any payment … is made shall , on making the payment , deduct out of it a sum representing the amount of income thereon ’ . |
| 7 | The exploration was pursued by statistical analysis relating the amount of manufacturing change ( the phenomenon to be explained ) to characteristics of areas which it was hypothesized might explain the change . |
| 8 | It can be surprising the amount of pressure a little wet concrete puts on shuttering . |
| 9 | ‘ The drop represents halving the amount of sound energy . ’ |
| 10 | So , that now I am releasing the amount of memory you could actually use . |
| 11 | Chatto has been researching the amount of space given by newspapers to its paperback originals , which it introduced last year . |
| 12 | Central government attempts to control local authorities by : a ) carefully regulating the amount of money which they can spend locally , and b ) scrutinizing the way in which money is actually spent . |
| 13 | Cats are normally extremely efficient at regulating the amount of food they take in . |
| 14 | The degree of carbamylation can be assessed by measuring the amount of valine hydantoin ( VH ) formed after acid hydrolysis of haemoglobin , and a correlation between stable renal function , as determined by blood urea concentration , and the amount of carbamylated haemoglobin has been reported . |
| 15 | Activity was determined by measuring the amount of 4-methylumbelliferone released after incubation with the enzyme source . |
| 16 | By heating a sample of pottery and measuring the amount of energy released , the time that has elapsed since the pot was last fired ( usually when the pot was made ) can be calculated . |
| 17 | Hence measures the amount of stored energy and , sometimes called the imaginary part , is actually a real quantity measuring the amount of energy dissipated by the material . |
| 18 | Essentially the experimental design involved exposing day-old chicks to an imprinting stimulus , injecting them with radioactive precursors to RNA or protein , and measuring the amount of radioactivity in protein or RNA extracted from different brain regions . |
| 19 | I have said ( in Chapter 2 ) that one can calculate the rate of protein synthesis by injecting a radioactively labelled amino acid into the bloodstream and measuring the amount of radioactivity to be found in the protein of particular brain regions after a given time . |
| 20 | We do n't really know a lot about how much sediment load they 've been carrying because we have been measuring the amount of material being carried by Sussex rivers for the last decade to two decades , so our level of information is very , very low . |
| 21 | Second , although land is cheaper in rural than in urban locations , planning policies may have helped to increase its price considerably by limiting the amounts of building land available . |
| 22 | It restricted the use of water by proclamation , and introduced meters to ration water consumption for agricultural use at its pre-1967 level , thereby limiting the amount of expansion possible in the most important sector of the territories ' economy . |
| 23 | The Euro-lavatory , limiting the amount of water cisterns may flush . |
| 24 | I have one role with The Wedding Present and that is to make them as popular and as successful as I can , while limiting the amount of things whey have to compromise . |
| 25 | In 1988 ‘ stabilisers ’ were introduced limiting the amount of cash paid for each type of product . |
| 26 | There is a clear emphasis upon promoting the choice of individuals in influencing the type of care they receive , providing care outside institutions if at all possible and limiting the amount of care available so as not to foster dependence . |
| 27 | On wet ground , play the ball back a bit in your stance to ensure catching the ball first , thus minimising the amount of moisture squeezed between the clubface and the ball at impact . |
| 28 | The president has kept the SSC in the budget , but is not providing the amount of money required to allow the programme to follow its original schedule . |
| 29 | More generally , however , we have to pose the question whether in certain conditions gradual and minor changes — disregarding the amount of violence they involve may not be cumulative , and lead eventually to major transformations . |
| 30 | This leads to a simple way of stating the amount of distortion : as the ratio of harmonics to fundamental . |