Converse of object

• invest: For many years schools in the northern hemisphere have invested large sums in ICT suites.

• pay: Jeremy Paxman is paid huge sums to keep his mouth shut.

• donate: Some of our members have already donated large sums of money to get the drawing fund started.

• borrow: Some doctors have borrowed large sums to train in the UK.

Adjective modifier

• substantial: The re-organisation of local government will cost substantial sums.

• vast: Today's courts award a fraction of those vast sums.

• princely: For this I receive the princely sum of £ 20.

• nominal: These two micas can be readily obtained for a nominal sum from geology suppliers.

Preposition: of

• money: Paying players large sums of money at club level is not the way to go forward.

Noun used with modifier

• cash: Use a low interest credit card to finance small cash sums.

Preposition: of

• shilling: It is reputed that the sum of ten shillings per night was paid for this privilege.

• pound: I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten pounds.

Noun used with modifier

• lump: The simplest is a lump sum payment of the value of the policy.

• five-figure: Officers also recovered a five-figure sum of money as well as approximately half a kilogram of cocaine following house searches.