Example sentences of "amount of [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the mixed delights of the Glasgow Fair and a wee burst of the cholera mixed in with bread riots , the 1850s saw giant strides in the techniques of battleship-building , and the amount of noise that could be generated in the interests of progress . |
| 2 | BRITISH AEROSPACE believes that by taking decisions out of the hands of the pilot it can reduce the amount of noise that an aircraft makes . |
| 3 | It ca n't bother her Bev because the amount of noise that we get through the walls is so bad and she 's in it , she 's actually there with the animals barking , so she takes no notice whatsoever of them |
| 4 | really painless was n't it , considering the amount of software that was loaded . |
| 5 | I want to progress to a 386 or 486 chip to enable me to take full advantage of Windows 3.1 and DOS 5 and of the increasing amount of software that requires this minimum . |
| 6 | And with that she went off to the shop to collect the miserable amount of provisions that were due . |
| 7 | It 's not the amount of faith that we can muster . |
| 8 | Well , its a busy time for her dad as well , what with those extra services — and a lamentable feature of this day and age is the amount of toerags that roll in bold as brass to the Watchnight Service reeking of drink . |
| 9 | Although the use of electronic media in the business world is increasing , there remains a vast amount of communication that takes place on paper . |
| 10 | I mean you ask what it 's like erm being a member of the majority Labour group , being the leader of the City Council , it 's extremely hard work , it 's an enormous responsibility , and on many occasions it 's extremely frustrating because the amount of freedom that the City Council has to decide its policy and decide its spending priorities is reducing all the time . |
| 11 | Today there is much public concern about the amount of incest that occurs and is now coming to light . |
| 12 | One of the most obvious places to start looking for the existence or not of inequality between different social groups is the amount of income that people earn , since money is so important in our society . |
| 13 | Training 's the first thing that goes , in a recession , that 's the first thing that people cut , and not only , well we are achieving the fixed amount of income that we 're obliged to in order to make previous reductions , but we 're certainly not covering costs . |
| 14 | For one thing , increasing the number of cells increases the amount of space that will be taken up by axons and their terminals , and this will alter the appearance of the tissue , so that regions of the brain will not always look the same in different species . |
| 15 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 16 | It may not be strictly within my remit , but I am fascinated by the amount of space that is being lavished , particularly by the Sunday Times , on the new list of ‘ The Best of Young British Novelists ’ . |
| 17 | We were sat in the North Bank ( could n't get tickets for the Leeds end ) , and in the second half we had a good view of the amount of space that the Arsenal forwards were getting , it was unbelievable . |
| 18 | There 's a significant amount of adaptation that has to be done . ’ |
| 19 | Although the aim of Microsoft is to bring out a more standardised SMP version of NT , there is a general consensus among SMP NT implementors that a HaL — hardware abstraction layer — architecture will have to integrated into NT to limit the amount of adaptation that hardware systems vendors are currently having to endure . |
| 20 | The pile that 's there there 's gon na be a certain amount of mess that comes of it . |
| 21 | Erm one of the problems that we 've been facing in the past , certainly , in G P House is the amount of stuff that 's on the floor and therefore we have n't actually been able to tackle these things very effectively . |
| 22 | If so , the Government should be taking another look at the amount of grant that that council receives . |
| 23 | it 's the amount of tiredness that is cu you know he 's showing and , and his speed into tiredness and then his recovery from it , that 's unusual that he could be |
| 24 | ‘ One has gained a certain amount of experience that one did n't have before and I think we will have come out of it stronger . |
| 25 | These figures determine the amount of land that must be set aside for housing in Local Plans . |
| 26 | The research project would lead to proposals concerning the amount of land that should be taken out of production , which land should be chosen and by what means ‘ set-aside ’ can be encouraged . |
| 27 | Whether or not a family moved depended in large measure on the amount of land that they held and on the number of landholding branches . |
| 28 | There are innumerable variants on this formula and on the definition of the amount of land that might be enclosed … |
| 29 | It is difficult to actually say that it has formed a satisfactory basis because in in effect , the amount of land that has come forward in the city has been below the the figure that was allocated in the original structure plan . |
| 30 | It is our feeling that the council needs to be encouraged to take that attitude because if we have a change of policy as the District Council are asking , so that the number of sites released from industrial use is compensated by new green field sites being allocated , then it seems a little bit like a blank cheque to us and we should like to see a firmer control on the amount of land that is lost to development and in seeing that firmer control we 'd like to put pressure on the District Council by not offering them compensation |