Example sentences of "amount of [noun sg] [coord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can lead to talk comparing the amount of space and the position of furniture . |
| 2 | The abscissa represents the amount of DNA and the ordinate shows the number of nuclei . |
| 3 | The galley is compact , but there is a good amount of stowage and the cook is provided with the luxury of a pizzo ignition , three-burner Force 10 cooker . |
| 4 | Now another survey is to be carried out to establish the amount of damage and the expected costs of maintenance . |
| 5 | Place the required amount of water and the beans or peas in the pressure cooker . |
| 6 | Relatives of people living in care homes can be expected to make up the difference between the amount of benefit and the charges actually levied by by the home . |
| 7 | Consumers repaid a substantial amount of debt and the amount of consumer credit outstanding from UK banks was actually less than a year ago , Lord Inchyra , the director-general of the British Bankers ' Association said yesterday . |
| 8 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 9 | Every computer has a finite , or limited , amount of memory and the E6000 console is no exception . |
| 10 | There 's a huge amount of detail and the technique has got to be perfect otherwise the painting should be an absolute mess . |
| 11 | There 's a huge amount of detail and the technique has got to be perfect otherwise the painting should be an absolute mess . |
| 12 | The amount of detail and the scale of the drawings vary according to the type of site and the time and resources available . |
| 13 | IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the transaction hereby effected does not form part of a larger transaction or of a series of transactions in respect of which the amount of value or the aggregate amount of value of the consideration exceeds thirty thousand pounds . |
| 14 | If this land comes into private ownership , it is very doubtful and dim the same amount of access and the same amount of conservation will be , er private conservation will be given and we wo n't have the control over it we have now . |
| 15 | The amount of borrowing and the length of time you are likely to require it will be agreed in discussion with your Midland manager — according to the needs of your business and cash flow patterns . |
| 16 | I was totally unconvinced that he , any more than anyone else , has a solution to the amount of crime and the necessity to send people to prison . |
| 17 | Focused effort and determination can yield a surprising amount of information but the motivation has to he high . |
| 18 | They should preferably be presented by elderly gentlemen with a certain amount of grace and the recipient must blush ; that is important . |
| 19 | Both of these important factors — the amount of use and the quality of existing stock — can be worked out in a formal way if the McClellan system of stock logistics is adopted ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 20 | This policy gives them a much needed spread of risk of buyer and of export market and gives the policyholder the best ‘ rate on line ’ : ie the percentage ratio between the amount of premium and the level of cover provided . |
| 21 | Tomorrow morning will begin cold and bright with a fair amount of sunshine and the afternoon will turn dull . |
| 22 | Finding he had an inadequate amount of carpeting and the shop could no longer supply the same colour , he simply ordered another shade and was oblivious to the clash of reds this created half way up the stairs . |
| 23 | The difficulty arose in that some of the children had several stools per day , but apparently evacuated incompletely , as shown by periodic passage of very large amounts of stool or the presence of a faecal impaction . |
| 24 | Petitioning grew with local antislavery organisations , circulation of massive amounts of literature and the ideological acceptance of emancipation as a matter of national interest and a component of national identity . |
| 25 | Small amounts of proinsulin and the fragment 32–33 split proinsulin are also released in health . |