Example sentences of "amount of [noun sg] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the conference in which this paper was first presented , there was a great deal of discussion about how one is to define concepts like ‘ peace ’ and ‘ aggression ’ for comparative purposes , and , as always in such discussions , a fair amount of pessimism about the possibility of success . |
| 2 | For this reason a certain amount of confusion about the scoring system has arisen in recent years . |
| 3 | It is therefore understandable that , even among those who now happily accept the idea of hypnotherapy , there is still a certain amount of reservation about the concept of regression as part of the healing process . |
| 4 | By taking into account the adequacy of the research designs , ruling out findings from small samples , weak measures and poor statistical analysis , Kessler and McLeod ( 1984 ) revealed a considerable amount of agreement about the positive effects of support . |
| 5 | In the great amount of talk about the permissive society , it is sometimes claimed that marriage is losing its sanctity because couples live together without being married and the number of illegitimate babies ( those born to unmarried mothers ) is rising . |
| 6 | The iconography of a state 's coinage viewed over a period of time can reveal a certain amount of information about the aspirations of that state , since the choice of designs will normally reflect the matters considered important by at least an influential body in that state and will present these important matters in a particular way . |
| 7 | As might be expected , only a limited amount of information about the practice of telephone-tapping is made available to the public . |
| 8 | Fragmentary and damaged though they are , the Knossos frescoes have yielded a vast amount of information about the world of the Minoans . |
| 9 | If , for example , the site is excavated in a series of small trenches in order to gain the maximum amount of information about the stratigraphy , it is then very difficult to understand the plan view of the site . |
| 10 | He seemed to have made up his mind in advance that he could reveal a certain amount of information about the past rather than the present . |
| 11 | Thus Davis very quickly gained a vast amount of information about the many chemical operations of his day . |
| 12 | The amount of information about the syntactic structure of a clause which is retained depends on what kind of clause we are dealing with . |
| 13 | But this very failure has resulted in the survival of an unusual amount of information about the opera season . |
| 14 | Another is an invitation to CPRW to join the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) , together with a copious amount of information about the organisation . |
| 15 | It also means that a very large amount of information about the body that has collapsed must be lost when a black hole is formed , because afterward all we can possibly measure about the body is its mass and rate of rotation . |
| 16 | As we can see , it is necessary to acquire a considerable amount of information about the client . |
| 17 | Well I think what you 've got to be careful of and it 's always a difficulty when you 're looking at er benefits and dis-benefits of major road schemes , you 'll see that we go into a tremendous amount of or collect a tremendous amount of information about the different impacts . |
| 18 | The amount of dis-information about the compatibility between PCs and Macintoshes is really quite staggering , on the face of it you would think that they were unable to speak at all . |
| 19 | If one were to include other categories of ‘ news ’ , such as ‘ Law , police and accidents ’ — a category excluded from the public affairs one — then the reader would have had access to substantial amounts of information about the outside world . |
| 20 | So we have given variable amounts of information about the speaker or the hearer or the time or the place as we have discussed different fragments of discourse . |