Example sentences of "amount of [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most informative is undoubtedly that caused by Gundovald 's claim to the throne , since Gregory of Tours not only allocates a considerable amount of space to the rebellion itself , but also provides evidence in the ensuing books of the Histories which illuminates the nature of the " pretender's ' following . |
| 2 | Thus addition of a known amount of solvent to the solution in D , followed by mixing , gives the next concentration in the series . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid this storm is going to cause an awful amount of damage to the plantation below . ’ |
| 4 | They need to be assured that the options for flood relief have been fully explored and that this is the most effective means and produces the minimum amount of damage to the environment . |
| 5 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 6 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 7 | But they have had to overcome a surprising amount of resistance to the idea that nurses should be involved in research , chiefly from within the nursing profession itself . |
| 8 | Because the person using the system brings an amount of skill to the task , it would not be unreasonable to suggest that he is the author . |
| 9 | Mark Steyn , whose confidence in his wit is so great no amount of evidence to the contrary seems ever likely to shake it , took us on a tour of the National Humour Archive , complete with the Dawson Bequest , and a person at work on the wider socio-economic effects of Essex Girl jokes . |
| 10 | Few stations of the first generation survived the vast increase of railway traffic , but some did and they are well worth seeing Railways added a vast amount of detail to the English landscape , besides manipulating it at times on a large scale . |
| 11 | Neither have I been someone who devotes an enormous amount of time to the care of my own face and figure . |
| 12 | It was impossible to please everybody , but Anselm 's conduct in these affairs must be judged to have caused the greatest amount of dissatisfaction to the largest number of people . |
| 13 | At first Wolff 's duties were to manage the yard and provide engineering skills ; but later , through his links with the Jewish community in Britain and Hamburg , he was to bring a large amount of business to the yard . |
| 14 | It senses and delivers the correct amount of power to the driving wheels , eliminating wheel spin and ensuring stable handling . |
| 15 | The kind of occasion when this injunction might apply would be when a prisoner deliberately fasts to bring about a change in his status , or else to cause the maximum amount of embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 16 | So convinced are such people that to be impaired is to ‘ die ’ that no amount of protestation to the contrary seems to make any difference . |
| 17 | As several million years are required for the transfer of a significant amount of heat to the surface of continental lithosphere , it has been suggested that hot spots are most likely to develop where the lithosphere is more or less stationary with respect to sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies as this would allow time for sustained heating to occur . |
| 18 | That is why the social anthropologists are justified in devoting such an inordinate amount of attention to the field of kinship . |
| 19 | She was starting to pay an inordinate amount of attention to the star signs . |
| 20 | There was no question , therefore , of different groups receiving different amounts of exposure to the stimuli or receiving training on discrimination differing on difficulty . |
| 21 | Conveyancing work has become more competitive , but solicitors have not lost substantial amounts of work to the modest number of licensed conveyancers who have set up in practice . |
| 22 | These marriages of lower Patel girls to higher Patel boys became vast affairs , with the girl 's family being forced to spend enormous sums on sweets and also give large amounts of gold to the boy 's family . |
| 23 | The Industrial Revolution brought about educational awareness in the working classes and the government started to give small amounts of funding to the schools run by charitable religious societies in 1833 . |
| 24 | A substance , histamine , is produced by injured cells ; it causes capillaries in the area to dilate thus bringing greatly increased amounts of blood to the site of injury . |
| 25 | We pay different amounts of attention to the announcements and react to them differently , because one aspect of the context , the speaker , is significantly different . |
| 26 | In the second half of the nineteenth century , the ‘ pioneer ’ agricultural expansion across North America , Eastern Europe , Australia , New Zealand and South Africa added substantial amounts of carbon to the atmosphere through temperate deforestation and field clearances . |
| 27 | Although the work of Barnard and Cooper ( 1983 ) demonstrated the relationship between areas of high reflectance , inversion axes and the occurrence of gas fields , they restricted their discussion of absolute amounts of uplift to the Cleveland Basin area . |