Example sentences of "amount to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final stages of training amount to the handing over of all the responsibility for safety to the student . |
| 2 | There is the unity of the moment : different tactile and proprioceptive sensations amount to a coherent body image ; different visual sensations cohere to a visual field ; and sensations from different modalities converge to a general sensory field , an organized moment-by-moment presence of a world , so that the feeling in my hand as I hold a stone , the sight of the sea and the sound of the seagull behind me are all not merely present but co-present . |
| 3 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 4 | If he wins the next two legs , today and tomorrow , his total prize money as overall Grade A champion will only amount to £970 — but he will have the opportunity to compete at Wembley for the rest of the week . |
| 5 | The Conservative case is that the present economic situation does not amount to a crisis . |
| 6 | He said this did not amount to a demand for a right of veto : ‘ The principle we stick to is that the PLO will be totally out of the picture . ’ |
| 7 | Together , the Mirror and Record sales amount to 3,900,000 — only 200,000 below The Sun . |
| 8 | Under this category there are also requests for assistance which amount to acts of community welfare , such as calls to lift aged and disabled people on to and off the toilet as well as into bed , and calls from very distressed pensioners and young children concerning lost pets ( on the police as a social service see Punch 1979b ; Punch and Naylor 1973 ) . |
| 9 | Various other costs such as administration , legal accountancy fees , as well as paying off any debts of the individual band members , could all amount to a further £20,000 . |
| 10 | For Labour , Mr Donald Dewar said the figures did not amount to a real increase and took no account of cuts in local authority spending in recent years . |
| 11 | His introduction says that experts ' recommendations will soon amount to teetotalism . |
| 12 | Bilateral credits pledged to Poland and Hungary amount to nearly $1.5billion . |
| 13 | They have been told that their claim may only amount to around £11,000 of their £15,000 as capital gains tax is likely to be deducted from the total . |
| 14 | He is coughing up because the Om budsman has found five separate cases of maladministration which , the minister admits , amount to a moral if not a legal responsibility . |
| 15 | MERE delay which gives rise to prejudice and unfairness may by itself amount to an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 16 | There was no warrant for not following the ample precedent for the proposition that mere delay which gave rise to prejudice and unfairness could by itself amount to an abuse of the process . |
| 17 | But this begs the question : does ‘ pride and dignity ’ amount to anything more than the aspiration to participate in society on its own terms ? |
| 18 | It should be possible to take breaches of agreements before the International Court of Justice or , when they amount to a threat to peace , before the Security Council . |
| 19 | The simple translation is , first , that the 750m people in the countryside , including 90m who work in what amount to private factories , can not be sent back to the commune , however much China 's old-guard ideologues might wish . |
| 20 | Achieving that aim will in itself amount to a manifest setback for Mr Hussein . |
| 21 | This is not needed merely to run the factories properly — which is what foreign managers ' present jobs mainly amount to . |
| 22 | These amount to rich pickings , given that more than 20m British households have a garden . |
| 23 | Without that , no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters . |
| 24 | It sometimes happens that the wrong is so closely connected with a contract that the enforcement of liability for the wrong would in effect amount to an enforcement of the contract . |
| 25 | Rights of occupation normally only continue during the subsistence of the marriage and the existence of the other spouse 's estate or interest in the home , and they amount to a charge on the other spouse 's estate or interest . |
| 26 | The behaviour alleged under – above would amount to a matrimonial offence , while the circumstances covered by amount to the first recognition in England of a right of divorce by mutual consent . |
| 27 | Although many deaths arise from natural causes , and many others from illnesses and diseases , each year sees a large number of deaths caused by ‘ accidents ’ , and also a number caused by acts or omissions which amount to some form of homicide in English law . |
| 28 | It is the resulting harm ( death ) which still dominates , as is evident from the fact that many forms of conduct fall within the law of manslaughter if death happens to result , whereas they would not even amount to a serious offence if a consequence less than death had ensued . |
| 29 | Why should the fact that D was engaged on causing damage to property at the time ( even damage to D's own property ) make his conduct into an offence punishable with life imprisonment when , if D were engaged on some other activity , it would not be punishable as such and would only amount to manslaughter if a death happened to be caused ? |
| 30 | A wound has been defined as an injury which breaks both the outer and inner skin — a bruise or a burst blood-vessel in an eye would not amount to a wound . |