Example sentences of "amount to [adj] [det] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This model of socialism has involved some limited changes in economic ownership , but in practice has invariably amounted to little more than state direction of predominantly privately owned economic activity , and the maintenance of some minimum standards of social provision for all . |
| 2 | But , in terms of disability services , the choice available to us amounts to little more than Hobson 's choice . |
| 3 | A.G. Kennedy , its most recent editor , has noted that " apart from chs. 25 – 7 there is nothing that amounts to much more than injunctions that justice should be done and that every man should do his duty " . |
| 4 | He wrote : " All the occurrences of Jurassic formations … amount to little more than relics of marginal lappings of the sea around the edges of the continents ; the sole exception being the Tethys " . |
| 5 | So you end up taking a whole pile of clothes , most of which invariably amount to little more than ballast . |
| 6 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 7 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |