Example sentences of "the amount of [noun] give " in BNC.

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1 ( 3 ) The amount of credit given must not exceed £15,000 ( Consumer Credit ( Increase in Monetary Limits ) Order 1983 ( SI 1983 No 1878 ) ) .
2 Once this was discovered , the amount of oxygen given to young babies was carefully monitored and a dramatic fall in the number of cases resulted .
3 The French medical company also suffered because of a three or four month disruption in the supply of the only product it does not design and manufacture itself — a plantable port , manufactured by a US company , which is used to control the amount of drugs given to a patient undergoing chemotherapy , met with quality problems .
4 Chatto has been researching the amount of space given by newspapers to its paperback originals , which it introduced last year .
5 At other schools , the amount of space given to exhibitions and displays , to secretarial work , and to counselling activities , has been analysed carefully and sympathetically , and some compromises of multiple use achieved without sacrifice of principle or utility .
6 Thus , the amount of sulphate given in this study can be reached by dietary means in a proportion of people .
7 However , as Table 3.4 shows , there is a great deal of variety in not only the amount of money given but also in the factors which are taken into account in its calculation .
8 For each political contribution over £200 state the name of the recipient or the political party and the amount of money given .
9 For each political contribution over £200 , state the name of the recipient or political party and the amount of money given .
10 The amount of coverage given to the sexual transgressions of members of the teaching profession suggests that there was the hidden agenda at work of denigrating the professionalism of teachers at a time when they were in industrial conflict with their employers .
11 The amount of serum given had to balance with the amount given me by the Pharmacist from the records she kept of that given to Ward Sisters for use on the wards .
12 House sites are seen to be a scarce resource , by both Shetlanders and incomers , basically because the amount of sites given planning permission by the local authority is ever decreasing .
13 Although time available to librarians/information officers influenced the amount of instruction given , especially to managerial/ administrative users , it was not an overriding inhibitive factor .
14 At Pilkingtons , the amount of leave given depends on the distance over which employees are relocating .
15 The amount of leave given may vary considerably from country to country .
16 In situations where the second person was the farmer 's wife there could be physical limitations to the amount of assistance given .
17 The amount of pamidronate given depended on the pretreatment corrected serum calcium ( CCa ) .
18 The amount of cortex given over to the central as opposed to the peripheral visual field can differ , as can the size of receptive fields of cells within the area .
19 The amount of food to give your fish , then is no more than they will eat .
20 The amount of detail given will have to be appropriate to the type of system installed .
21 Others may have shared my depression at the spectacle of party activists of various political persuasions sitting , stopwatch in hand , to measure the amount of time given to their views compared with those of their opponents .
22 The amount of time given to the development of the basics , the school 's approach to equal opportunities , special needs work , sex education , multi-cultural and anti-racist education and pupil assessment will be seen in action .
23 In spite of a long-standing tradition of appointing former cathedral and university musicians as principals of music colleges , the amount of time given in these institutions to the study of church music is limited .
24 The amount of glucose given was calculated from body weight .
25 Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) .
26 Rendering a passive structure by an active structure , or conversely an active structure by a passive structure in translation can affect the amount of information given in the clause , the linear arrangement of semantic elements such as agent and affected entity , and the focus of the message .
27 In comparison with the amount of information given about Molla Fenari , little is given in the article about Molla Yegan .
28 Yet the past five-ten years have been remarkable for the amount of attention given in America to such principles .
29 Grieving is one of life 's basic experiences , yet because of its intensely personal nature it tends to stay hidden , despite the amount of attention given to the subject today .
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