Example sentences of "amount of [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In London an increasing amount of space is being mothballed but as soon as there is demand it will be opened up again . |
| 2 | I am not surprised that the Minister declines to give us the figures because is not the truth that about 60 to 80 times the amount of money is being spent per capita on students at the city technology college than is spent on pupils at secondary schools in Sunderland and surrounding boroughs ? |
| 3 | There is a major upheaval in LEDU in relation to West Belfast and a larger amount of resources is being put into the area . |
| 4 | A ratio significantly larger than one would imply that an excess amount of neutrons was being detected when the cells were being operated , and hence be evidence for fusion taking place . |
| 5 | Up to 1980 , online education was primarily directed towards intermediaries , but in recent years an increasing amount of attention is being devoted to teaching end-users how to carry out online searching . |
| 6 | Kessel ( 1965 ) has suggested a limit to the amount of tablets that could be dispensed at a given time , and in some areas chemist shop assistants are instructed to refer customers to senior staff when large amounts of tablets are being requested . |
| 7 | Skills are being learnt , greater or lesser amounts of efforts are being made by individuals . |
| 8 | Huge amounts of money are being pumped into research and development . |
| 9 | In the commercial and the public sector , and even on a more private level astonishing amounts of data are being created as word processed documents , some of which are printed out , but others such as email are sent over the wires and viewed only on screen by the recipient or data user . |