Example sentences of "amount [prep] [noun] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development strategy adopted in the Greater York study never envisaged that the settlement , or the district that got the new settlement would therefore get a corresponding reduction in the amount of land it had to provide to meet the needs of the Greater York area , the strategy we use to identify sites within the Greater York area that could be developed without compromising greenbelt objectives , and that the new settlement would be added on outside that area without a reduction in that that figure . |
| 2 | This village is noted for the amount of sun it receives and for its long pebble beach . |
| 3 | Even when the first rule eventually gains credit , the amount of credit it gains is only |
| 4 | Well well I I as I er as both myself and my wife understood it , everything had been paid and then obviously when we got the letter saying we owed this amount of money it did n't come to light till Mr and Mrs came to see you |
| 5 | The interest in CalMac is disproportionate to the size of its business ( 850 employees ) , the number of its customers ( mainly 29,370 inhabitants of the Western Isles , plus tourists ) or the amount of money it costs the exchequer : the company received a grant this year of £7.2m ( $12.7m ) , much the same as previous years . |
| 6 | Oxfordshire County Council was required to pre-set the amount of money it wanted from the District Councils who set a rate . |
| 7 | Despite the vast amount of money it has squandered the CIA has been remarkably unsuccessful in warning America about genuinely important hostile acts by Russia and her allies . |
| 8 | Since any glass can only take a certain amount of fluid it represents an easy way of thinking of our body 's limitations to the amount of stress we can endure . |
| 9 | Thames Water has agreed to reduce the amount of water it pumps from its boreholes during winter by 60 per cent . |
| 10 | Dr Booth was admittedly ‘ horrified by the amount of fat it carried ’ and it was not until he saw wild boar in a wild life park in France that he realised the opportunities . |
| 11 | Before the start of each year , the government is to assess the amount of expenditure it considers that each authority will require in order to provide a standard level of services . |
| 12 | I mean this is I er er there , there is a , a fundamental problem here I think th that i if you do the calculations in terms of how many calories per amount of grain it does seem that , that for what we regard as being an adequate diet and then again it 's a diet which is not being supplemented by meat okay there will be some vegetables but basically it 's grain , you , you do need somewhere between six and seven hundred . |
| 13 | But if you have n't got that amount of capital it takes capital out of your hands and you ca n't spend it in five years time if you need it because you 've given it away effectively forever . |
| 14 | Although signatures can be added after the initial printing of the Motion ( and usually are ) , its impact is judged very much on the amount of support it receives on first printing . |
| 15 | But nursing could be forgiven for thinking that life — and thus the amount of change it has to cope with — is getting a bit too hectic . |
| 16 | The UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Sadako Ogata , urged the US to double the amount of food it has been parachuting into Srebrenica and send 60 tonnes a day . |
| 17 | Next is the assumption that labour alone creates value , so that the exchange value of a commodity depends on the amount of labour it takes to produce it . |
| 18 | The amount of time it takes for a lizard to turn into a bird ; love |
| 19 | To set it up , the amount of time it takes her to get it up , be prepared |
| 20 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |
| 21 | But professionals do not , in general , have to worry about the cost of the string or the amount of time it lasts . |
| 22 | That is quite simply to reduce by say 25 per cent the amount of time the eager opera audience wishes to spend listening to famous old works about famous old people and places , and instead increase the amount of time it wishes to spend listening to new works about ordinary people now . |
| 23 | Solbourne reckons its solutions compare very favourably with Sequent 's Intel Corp-based SMP systems , and is making aggressive noises about the amount of business it hopes to win . |
| 24 | The librarian goes to the subject area at the shelves and examines each book in sequence , taking account of its physical condition , its currency , and the amount of use it has received . |
| 25 | Thus although the Bank of England has been obliged to restore the amount of cash it had withdrawn from the system , there has been an equal and opposite decrease in bills plus money at call held by the banks . |
| 26 | The DSS says every claim is decided upon it 's merits and the amount of cash it has available in the social fund . |
| 27 | Considering how little publicity the service has had , the amount of interest it has generated has been enormous . ’ |
| 28 | Reporting for the first time on its environmental emissions , the UK subsidiary of Swiss chemicals and drugs giant Ciba-Geigy says it increased the amount of waste it incinerated in 1991 while reducing the amount sent for landfill . |
| 29 | I already owned two sheds , but one was on the point of collapse , and the other was far too small for the amount of rubbish it held . |