Example sentences of "amount of [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Stockwell Manor School we meet a certain amount of competition for the working areas and sometimes need to round-up hordes of energetic youngsters who have invaded the gym or perhaps the quiet concentration of a theory lesson is assailed by a steel band at full volume . |
| 2 | To achieve this flexibility , the modular structure has been adopted in the belief that it provides the maximum amount of choice for the student compatible with the maintenance of academic standards . |
| 3 | The first task of the designer , therefore , is to fight with the architect and often with the client to obtain the correct amount of space for the functional part of the hotel . |
| 4 | In northern France this had been traditionally organized by the institution known as the villa , a country estate of variable size , often more or less the equivalent of a village , where all the land was the lord 's ; some part of it he let out to tenants , some part of it he farmed directly ; but even his own domain was in large measure tilled by the peasant tenants , who held their land in return for services in money , services in kind , and above all labour-services , for a defined amount of work for the lord . |
| 5 | Ah , L L Leslie , yes , he he he did a tremendous amount of work for the er er for the L Labour party . |
| 6 | Thus as the Leeds tailoring business became more advanced , with up to forty sewing machines grouped together in workshops ( compared to London 's eight or ten ) , so the amount of work for the lowly ‘ finisher ’ , usually a homeworker and often a widow , also increased . |
| 7 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 8 | But in Lebanon we do n't have vows , they have like kind of contract , and if the if they broke the contract it 's the bride and groo , the groom have to pay that amount of money for the the bride , even if it was her fault . |
| 9 | Not only was it a vast amount of money for the fledgling state to raise , by many Israeli officials felt passionately that Israel should not begin its life be seeking to extend its reach ad influence through such obvious corruption . |
| 10 | It was arranged that I should have only a very small amount of money for the next couple of weeks That was the point : to pretend to be poverty-stricken , to see how we would manage . |
| 11 | Certainly , the polyps on their long stalks provide a certain amount of cover for the fish , but without the strong stings that protect clownfish in anemones . |
| 12 | And it gives those of us with a history of less stable relationships a certain amount of hope for the future ! |
| 13 | A large lexicon system demands a huge corpus to obtain a satisfactory model and a large amount of storage for the resultant transition matrices . |
| 14 | A dynamic allocation of exactly the right amount of memory for the word can not be implemented because the structure needs to be contiguous in memory for the fast saving and reading in from a file ( as discussed in section 3.3.6 ) . |
| 15 | Where percentage factors are introduced the operative will receive a disproportionate amount of bonus for the effort involved and will , therefore , have a reduced incentive to increase his productivity . |
| 16 | But it is a blow to self-esteem and status that no amount of respect for the processes of democracy can remove . |
| 17 | I think children had a considerable amount of respect for the police in those days . |
| 18 | Before this stage a large amount of messenger-RNA for the protein haemoglobin is made and stored in the cytoplasm , so that when the nucleus is lost synthesis of haemoglobin continues . |
| 19 | That enabled a considerable amount of groundwork for the valuation exercise to be undertaken over the summer . |
| 20 | There was a considerable amount of administration for the clerk of a canal company . |
| 21 | Mister Grant has passed the crisis point now , and you 've been denying yourself proper amounts of sleep for the past five days . |