Example sentences of "[verb] to [det] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To listen to this when the mind and body need to recover from effort is , to use a medical term , contra-indicated . |
| 2 | Whether this amounts to more than a row of beans these days is questionable . |
| 3 | But he has not convinced his hometown audience that the larger goal of the Gulf war — the crafting of a new world order — amounts to more than a string of words . |
| 4 | However the executive staff could receive changed instructions from the Council acting collectively , which amounts to more than the member States acting collectively through their delegates . |
| 5 | The shopkeeper agreed to this after the rogue told him that he ( the rogue ) was Sir George Bullough . |
| 6 | If the glider is down wind of the site , the decision to return must be taken before the glider gets to less than an angle of about 20° to the field in light winds , and 30–40° in windy weather . |
| 7 | Group size is very small , rarely amounting to more than a singleton or a mother with a dependent infant . |
| 8 | Regretting ‘ that he had no power to send him to prison without the option of a fine ’ , the magistrate imposed a fine of 40 shillings ( probably amounting to more than a month 's wages ) or twenty-one days ' hard labour . |
| 9 | He wrote a book expounding 1 Corinthians 7 to imply that the apostle was not really defending marriage , since his arguments fatally conceded that it was not the most perfect state for the believer , and no true believer could aspire to less than the perfection to which God called . |
| 10 | That 's why I 'm submitting a budget that holds the growth in spending to less than the rate of inflation . |
| 11 | Her book sales amounted to more than a quarter of a million . |
| 12 | Differences do not , as we have seen with Fig. 8.4 , necessarily mean conflict , but they can easily lead to this if a spirit of possessiveness is also present ( as discussed in Chapter 3 , p. 34 ) . |
| 13 | A failure to understand this essential point could lead to more than a trade war . |
| 14 | The Spraire Lads football team , good lads too , got £300 but the Darlington and District Council did n't get to much as a packet of bird seed , on the grounds that they had enough already . |
| 15 | No objection could be taken to this when the offence actually took place in public ; now , of course , it need not . |
| 16 | Very intimate sounds were coming from the cubicles , but it was n't until the girl who had beckoned her earlier on came out of one of them and pointed to another where the door was open , and whispered harshly , ‘ Do n't you want to go ? ’ that she realised , Yes ; yes , she did want to go . |