Example sentences of "[adj] amount [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On balance , studies have found no indication of harmful physical effects ; no evidence that television introduces a harmful amount of aggression , violence or fear into an already normal child or that it turns an undisturbed child into a disturbed one or a non-delinquent child into a delinquent . |
| 2 | It is assumed that on completion of a form some amount of discussion between the lexicographers and the New OED Computer Group will be required to enable the request to be actioned . |
| 3 | Again , this is not to claim that we all aspire to it equally : it is simply to claim that , whatever our personal specific goals , some amount of money is almost invariably required for their realisation . |
| 4 | And I , I would n't mind doing some sort of a rou , some amount of work . |
| 5 | Ideally the growing medium should consist of some amount of clay . |
| 6 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 7 | Normally , one year would cost £9.50 , which ai n't bad in itself , but you can add that up to a fair old amount for life . |
| 8 | Yet because the old are seen to be more ill , more often than other age groups , illness and old age have become closely associated in our minds , leading to the belief that the old have to suffer and bear an unavoidable amount of pain and discomfort . |
| 9 | An infinite amount of information-processing allows an infinite amount of life and thought , and thus an infinite amount of subjective time . |
| 10 | Our use of an infinitary rule , which requires an apparently infinite amount of work to verify its preconditions , appears undesirable . |
| 11 | But , between any moment of proper time and the c-boundary , an infinite amount of information-processing is possible . |
| 12 | An infinite amount of information-processing allows an infinite amount of life and thought , and thus an infinite amount of subjective time . |
| 13 | These pairs would have an infinite amount of energy and , therefore , by Einstein 's famous equation E m , they would have an infinite amount of mass . |
| 14 | Rather , they imply that to accelerate any material object up to and beyond light-speed would take an infinite amount of energy and would therefore be impossible . |
| 15 | The high frequency vibrations were so highly favoured that an infinite amount of energy would be present in them . |
| 16 | These pairs would have an infinite amount of energy and , therefore , by Einstein 's famous equation E m , they would have an infinite amount of mass . |
| 17 | Owing to symmetry considerations ( there is the same infinite amount of charge in the region unc as in the corresponding region |
| 18 | I think one rule that you have to follow and as long as you follow that particular rule then they can handle infinite amount of power , do n't make sense to me |
| 19 | If natural selection were given its head , and an infinite amount of time to work in , then it seems that all lineages would tend inexorably towards ‘ perfection ’ ; where perfection was defined as perfect adaptation . |
| 20 | Planck used the idea of quanta to explain why a red-hot piece of metal does n't give off an infinite amount of heat ; but he regarded quanta simply as a theoretical trick , one that did n't correspond to anything in physical reality . |
| 21 | Mortgagees of a company should check power to borrow , possible limit on authorised amount of borrowing etc . |
| 22 | Not only wrote it , but published it and made what seemed to a poorly-paid lecturer to be a very acceptable amount of money with it . |
| 23 | His habitual amount of sleep had been five to seven hours a night , with a half-hour siesta in the afternoon . |
| 24 | Maintenance of an adequate circulation to provide the means of transport for oxygen and carbon dioxide depends not only on the correct functioning of the heart and vessels but also on the presence of an adequate amount of fluid to circulate . |
| 25 | Finally , check the airspeed carefully and approach with an adequate amount of height and speed . |
| 26 | The presence of an adequate amount of anti-HBs insures that the individual is incapable of acquiring HBV . |
| 27 | If the person makes up for the deficit by eating extra nutritious food , then he or she might have an adequate amount of nutrients , but the high overall food and calorie intake will lead to obesity . |
| 28 | But there were no flights , so I said , ‘ Look , mate , we 're never going to have this amount of money and time again , let's go to the best place in the world for birds — Peru . ’ |
| 29 | Notwithstanding the fact that this amount of money would buy you any amount of glossy varnish , cheap gold plating , plastic pearl and flamed-maple veneer , these German-made acoustics appear exceptional value . |
| 30 | And , ultimately , you 're bound to realise that this amount of money would go a long , long way towards buying your own small PA system — cabs , mixer amp , processor , parametric , vocal mike and all . |