Example sentences of "[art] amount of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The domination of Damian Cronin , Andrew Reed and Doddie Weir in all three matches so far has been a revelation and there must be a number of former international backs who are extremely envious of the amount of ball the current Scottish side are winning . |
| 2 | Perhaps the biggest surprise was the amount of fun the Fiesta provided on the latter type of roads , thanks to a willing engine and gearbox , precise if slightly heavy steering and those narrow tyres which , nevertheless , provided exactly the right amount of grip . |
| 3 | It occurred to Curtis that if this was the amount of weaponry the sect maintained the Prophet 's city suite , then Grant could run into some heavy firepower out at Bethlehem House later that night . |
| 4 | There are few diamonds to be found , nor is there much cocoa ; and considering the amount of space the Pacific commands it might seem a little odd ( unless one remembers the geology ) that only a fifth of the world 's proven oil reserves are there . |
| 5 | Because of the amount of damages the Branches are hoping for , the case will go to the High Court . |
| 6 | The current version of the generic PostScript driver ( PSCRIPT.DRV ) is version 3.5.3 which lets you specify the amount of memory the printer has installed ( that is , 5Mb ) : fine-tuning this value will improve printer throughput . |
| 7 | The amount of money the retailer spends on advertising depends on the amount of money the shop takes in a year . |
| 8 | The amount of money the retailer spends on advertising depends on the amount of money the shop takes in a year . |
| 9 | In fact , the Treasury 's unhappiness at the amount of money the department was expending proved to be an important factor in its ultimate demise . |
| 10 | The key issue is the amount of money the host nations are prepared to pay competing countries . |
| 11 | The key issue is the amount of money the host nations are prepared to pay competing countries . |
| 12 | An advertising agency normally takes over a client 's advertising for a fee , or for a percentage of the amount of money the client spends on television time or space in newspapers , magazines or poster sites . |
| 13 | The central government calculates a Standard Spending Assessment ( SSA ) for each authority , based on government estimates of the amount of money the authority needs to spend in order to provide a ‘ standard ’ level of service . |
| 14 | That is an opted out school as against the standard state school , which is subject to the overall policies of the Local Education Authority , and indeed it is funded by the Local Education Authority through a formula , and the amount of money that is put into that formula will obviously affect the amount of money the school has to spend , so it 's providing the same range of education within the National Curriculum , but it is not beholden to the Local Authority — that 's the basic difference . |
| 15 | I 've purely been concerned with the budgets of our own schools here in Oxfordshire and one of the ways that you can compare how efficient Oxfordshire is in terms of its expenditure is by looking at the national figures for recoupment , that 's where a county takes in a child from another county , and look how that compares with the amount of money the Authority spends on educating that child . |
| 16 | So half the room was tiddly and the other half looked a little confused at the amount of noise the others were making . |
| 17 | In determining the amount of grant the Minister will have regard to the general standards of the courses maintained by them , the needs of the areas , the activities of other bodies providing further education in the area and the fees paid by students . |
| 18 | The main problem lies in the amount of translation the software will have to do to read the 32 and 16-bit system calls both at the software and network level , Visionware said . |
| 19 | The levels of precaution differ in the amount of freedom the patient is allowed and the intensity of observation . |
| 20 | Whether a translation conforms to the source-text patterns of cohesion or tries to approximate to target-language patterns will depend in the final analysis on the purpose of the translation and the amount of freedom the translator feels entitled to in rechunking information and/or altering signals of relations between chunks . |
| 21 | Smith and his colleagues accordingly inoculated some rabbits with the recombinant and measured the amount of antibody the animals produced . |
| 22 | Generally , the idea 's progress through the process is dependent not only on the quality of the idea and its enhancement , but also upon the amount of drive the originator exerts . |
| 23 | The reduction in the amount of ACT the company pays ( which would otherwise be surplus ) will only be attractive if there is sufficient take-up by its shareholders to make the related administration and costs worthwhile . |
| 24 | The exchange rate will be determined by the demand for the new money and the amount of cruzeiros the government is willing to supply . |
| 25 | Twelve-week-old poodle pups , with hair and ear mites , sold directly to , or even worse , given as presents to frail OAPs who were given no idea of the amount of care the dogs ' ears will need every two or three weeks for the rest of their 16 year lives ? |
| 26 | The ability to cut down the distance signals travel by reducing the size of the computer is limited by the amount of heat the components generate ; a computer that is too small will get too hot . |
| 27 | If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward . |
| 28 | A dial gives you the running total of the amount of gallons the cartridge has deal with , so a new one can be ordered in good time . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , the degree of urban independence varied with the amount of pressure the community could exert , its ability to exploit political crisis , and the condition of its neighbours . |
| 30 | " only result seemed to shew that the parents of Stockport families preferred a cheap commercial education to a more expensive higher intellectual one and that the latter was necessarily more costly and that the Grammar School fees could not possibly be reduced to the level of the Technical School fees , that School being subsidised by Excise Duties and Government Grants to the amount of double the fees received from Scholars . " |