Example sentences of "with a [adj] amount [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colour a quarter of the remaining fondant ( about 75g/3oz ) grey with a tiny amount of black food colouring and roll out to a 35cm ( 14inch ) square . |
| 2 | Colour half the remaining fondant grey with a tiny amount of black food colouring and model a horse 's head . |
| 3 | Meyer duly came , and went again , leaving McLaren and the Sex Pistols some thousands of dollars poorer , and with a negligible amount of film in the can . |
| 4 | The clean channel with a goodly amount of reverb , and the chorus rate and depth set about halfway makes chords really shimmer and finger-picking come alive . |
| 5 | ‘ Were you truly ? ’ she said with a flattering amount of alarm in her voice . |
| 6 | Armed with a limited amount of fire-and-forget homing missiles and a machine gun that 's about as much use as Robert Maxwell 's swimming instructor , you need to blast away for all you 're worth to beat the ridiculously short time limit . |
| 7 | JustText , the program in question , is a very high quality tool capable of producing superbly crafted typesetting with a limited amount of page layout . |
| 8 | With a crop with a limited amount of sales surplus production suppresses prices , and you must be more competitive with your fellow farmers |
| 9 | When you start to put your army together you 'll be confronted with a bewildering amount of choice because there are so many kinds of troops . |
| 10 | At a fast eating pace and with a minimum amount of chewing — and very little chewing is usually required with refined sugary and starchy foods — an awful lot of calories can be consumed in five minutes . |
| 11 | But er at that time there was plenty work coming in , erm there was , there was no need for us to be apprehensive , and so therefore we had to convince the management that in the best interests of everybody , having agreed that the scheme would go on across the whole spectrum of the workforce , was to move reasonably , you know , quickly through the various machine departments and introduce with a minimum amount of frustration . |
| 12 | This piece of er equipment was er purchased some short time before in order that er we could enter , heavily secured doors er with a minimum amount of noise in order to er gain entry to premises where there was a possible armed incident taking place , or a possible hostage situation . |
| 13 | Then with a terrifying amount of common sense I searched out the candles , and , obviously having used up my common sense I went to watch television . |
| 14 | Secondly , there are those with a moderate amount of damage , such as short-eared owl , spotted eagle owl and European eagle owl , where the percentage completeness is 15 to 40 per cent . |
| 15 | It had been most enjoyable with a tremendous amount of flying : I had been in every part of the Command — Persia as it was in those days , down the Gulf and all the way round the Gulf to Bahrain , Salalah , I took part in the search for the Imperial Airways Argosy airliner City of Glasgow that landed on the beach and was literally lost for a couple of days before one of the Shaihah crews found it away down beyond Sulwah Wells . |
| 16 | With Lucinda Green 's enthusiasm , the 12 of us involved raised £80,000 this year , and ended up taking over 40 tonnes of supplies , with a tremendous amount of support from the ‘ horsy fraternity ’ . |
| 17 | Until recently , I was just amazed that I was doing this with a reasonable amount of success . |
| 18 | Once you 've had your initial meeting , drawn up your central strategy and agreed your budget , individuals should be allowed to get on with their jobs with a reasonable amount of flexibility . |
| 19 | People with money choose a nicely-sized Georgian building with a reasonable amount of land . |
| 20 | Unless you are prepared to pursue your legal action with a reasonable amount of vigour , you will find that you are wasting both time and money . |
| 21 | With a reasonable amount of intelligent deduction and a good deal of luck they find the loot of churches on the Spanish Main hidden by the priest-turned-pirate Domingo Mugnoz . |
| 22 | It should be possible with a reasonable amount of investigation to find out who the local trade union officials are and who it is who is responsible for the placement of work . |
| 23 | Here we are , in a matter of what eight to nine months of inheriting , a well financed , a well run , an effective , efficient organisation with a reasonable amount of na balances . |
| 24 | While this , with a suitable amount of information , might be the objective of public sector provision , it has , in fact , not been the case . |
| 25 | In the Directive , countryside conservation seems to be equated with retaining a farmed landscape , an objective which can be achieved even with a substantial amount of agricultural intensification . |
| 26 | THIEVES have got away with a substantial amount of cash from the main branch of Lloyds Bank in Darlington . |
| 27 | The latest raid came on Thursday night when thieves made off with a substantial amount of money from the dispensing machine at Lloyds Bank in Skinnergate , Darlington . |
| 28 | The particles are put into a vacuum with a minimal amount of heat , which turns the ice into steam , leaving the ground particles dry and ready for use . |
| 29 | This is a practical knitting course with a minimal amount of theory . |
| 30 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |