Example sentences of "amount of [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Stockwell Manor School we meet a certain amount of competition for the working areas and sometimes need to round-up hordes of energetic youngsters who have invaded the gym or perhaps the quiet concentration of a theory lesson is assailed by a steel band at full volume . |
| 2 | To achieve this flexibility , the modular structure has been adopted in the belief that it provides the maximum amount of choice for the student compatible with the maintenance of academic standards . |
| 3 | The first task of the designer , therefore , is to fight with the architect and often with the client to obtain the correct amount of space for the functional part of the hotel . |
| 4 | In northern France this had been traditionally organized by the institution known as the villa , a country estate of variable size , often more or less the equivalent of a village , where all the land was the lord 's ; some part of it he let out to tenants , some part of it he farmed directly ; but even his own domain was in large measure tilled by the peasant tenants , who held their land in return for services in money , services in kind , and above all labour-services , for a defined amount of work for the lord . |
| 5 | Ah , L L Leslie , yes , he he he did a tremendous amount of work for the er er for the L Labour party . |
| 6 | Thus as the Leeds tailoring business became more advanced , with up to forty sewing machines grouped together in workshops ( compared to London 's eight or ten ) , so the amount of work for the lowly ‘ finisher ’ , usually a homeworker and often a widow , also increased . |
| 7 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 8 | Normally you will want to use full side-slip for a few seconds rather than a small amount of slip for a much longer time . |
| 9 | I have seen clauses in record contracts which are absolutely meaningless and which I would happily have traded for a defined amount of money for a tour support , video , or promotional commitment . |
| 10 | If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency . |
| 11 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 12 | But in Lebanon we do n't have vows , they have like kind of contract , and if the if they broke the contract it 's the bride and groo , the groom have to pay that amount of money for the the bride , even if it was her fault . |
| 13 | Not only was it a vast amount of money for the fledgling state to raise , by many Israeli officials felt passionately that Israel should not begin its life be seeking to extend its reach ad influence through such obvious corruption . |
| 14 | It was arranged that I should have only a very small amount of money for the next couple of weeks That was the point : to pretend to be poverty-stricken , to see how we would manage . |
| 15 | In that erm , in that mermaid outfit , and earning some ridiculous amount of money for an hour , while other models went up and down a catwalk for a tenth of the money , or something . |
| 16 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 17 | Certainly , the polyps on their long stalks provide a certain amount of cover for the fish , but without the strong stings that protect clownfish in anemones . |
| 18 | And it gives those of us with a history of less stable relationships a certain amount of hope for the future ! |
| 19 | A large lexicon system demands a huge corpus to obtain a satisfactory model and a large amount of storage for the resultant transition matrices . |
| 20 | A dynamic allocation of exactly the right amount of memory for the word can not be implemented because the structure needs to be contiguous in memory for the fast saving and reading in from a file ( as discussed in section 3.3.6 ) . |
| 21 | A glass of wine — red or white — contains about 15% of the recommended daily amount of iron for a man ; 10% for a woman . |
| 22 | Here was a case which had taken up an inordinate amount of time for no result , and here was I , some remote big-wig from the Home Office coming to cross.examine him about it . |
| 23 | Where percentage factors are introduced the operative will receive a disproportionate amount of bonus for the effort involved and will , therefore , have a reduced incentive to increase his productivity . |
| 24 | But it is a blow to self-esteem and status that no amount of respect for the processes of democracy can remove . |
| 25 | I think children had a considerable amount of respect for the police in those days . |
| 26 | Before this stage a large amount of messenger-RNA for the protein haemoglobin is made and stored in the cytoplasm , so that when the nucleus is lost synthesis of haemoglobin continues . |
| 27 | That enabled a considerable amount of groundwork for the valuation exercise to be undertaken over the summer . |
| 28 | There was a considerable amount of administration for the clerk of a canal company . |
| 29 | Mister Grant has passed the crisis point now , and you 've been denying yourself proper amounts of sleep for the past five days . |
| 30 | Theirs was one of the few ale-only breweries in London at this time , most of the others producing huge amounts of porter for a voraciously thirsty market . |