Example sentences of "amount of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an interpretation of the relationship between elected politicians and appointed officials is given a certain amount of credibility by the existence of distinct bureaucratic organizations staffed by people recruited and deployed on the principles of political neutrality , merit , anonymity and expertise . |
| 2 | During our ‘ inspection tour ’ I had heard a fair amount of noise from the garden , and now Miss Sowerby announced , ‘ There 's half a dozen patients , Doctor , including one who 's hurt his head badly . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The shot sizes are variable according to casting distances and amount of pull on the water . |
| 5 | Keener feels that his lack of technical background is a distinct advantage ; it also means that he sets a large amount of trust in the engineers he is working with . |
| 6 | It works by boosting the amount of serotonin in the brain to about ten times the usual level . |
| 7 | No amount of stimulation from the environment can , for example , increase the intelligence quotient of a known mongol . |
| 8 | Once again the amount of black on the anal fin can help — more in males than in females . |
| 9 | A The best way to sex L. caeruleus is by the amount of black in the anal fin — males have much more than females and young females have hardly any at all . |
| 10 | Increases the amount of adrenalin in the body . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You can crouch in the small bell section with the fly door closed and there 's a small amount of space between the fly and the inner to stow boots and small items . |
| 13 | Each character in a font takes a precise amount of space on the page when it is printed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Each artist is allocated a certain amount of space in the gallery . |
| 17 | Otto Werner , formerly of the Bundesanstalt fur Materialprüfung , Berlin , published analyses in 1970 which showed that in very general terms the amount of zinc in the brass increased with time until it reached a natural maximum of about 28 per cent . |
| 18 | Since then the firm has managed to bring the amount of zinc in the effluent down to about 20 p.p.m. , but the agency has made it clear that it has to go below that . |
| 19 | The Drive channel is governed by the usual Gain and Volume pots , for selecting the amount of overdrive in the sound , and for setting the level between that and the Normal channel 's output . |
| 20 | A palpable abdominal faecal mass or a large amount of stool in the rectal ampulla was felt in 77% of patients . |
| 21 | Well , we need it , the amount of stuff at the moment , and get rid of it when we know what we 're doing with that thing . |
| 22 | In St. George 's there seemed to be a fair amount of disparity between the assessment approaches of different members of the department . |
| 23 | But from the little things this Haverford Downs slips in about the ladies , would I be right in thinking he 's had a fair amount of experience with the sex ? ’ |
| 24 | Thank you Mr Chairman , I , I 've got a certain amount of experience in the subject because we got quite a big one in our village . |
| 25 | You now know how to measure the amount of surface on the six faces of a cuboid . |
| 26 | ‘ A significant amount of tuning of the focusing parameters has been attempted . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ah , L L Leslie , yes , he he he did a tremendous amount of work for the er er for the L Labour party . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , by 1892 the immense amount of work on the structure and synthesis of organic compounds over the previous 25–30 years made a more systematic approach to naming these compounds necessary . |