Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb base] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These traces not only witness to a sad history , but also hint of glorious possibilities . |
| 2 | But these developments , while welcome , do not usually amount to a cross-disciplinary vehicle for systematically reflecting on the quality of the student learning . |
| 3 | However , an accountant 's professional work does not always amount to a continuous supply of services . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They work incredibly long hours with no day of rest for a monthly income which in the United States would not even amount to a basic daily wage . |
| 6 | Though they more usually refer to a later distinction of Hume 's , between ‘ relations of ideas ’ and ‘ matters of fact ’ , recent philosophers have commonly distinguished cases where we proceed , in Locke 's words , by ‘ the contemplation of our own abstract ideas ’ from those where , because there is no ‘ discoverable connection ’ between our ideas , we have to fall back on observation and experiment . |
| 7 | Popular television crime series , such as Kojak , Minder , The Sweeney , Softly , Softly , Starsky and Hutch , Hill Street Blues , Shoestring , The Professionals , The Gentle Touch , and Z Cars , never focus on corporate criminals , and hardly ever refer to a related but different type of upper-world crime , the white-collar criminal . |
| 8 | For this reason , Patterson 's data ( being chiefly polysyllables ) most probably attest to a late stage in the loss of raising before nasals , a change that had formerly affected a wider range of environments . |
| 9 | Many of the international firms have a broad range of consultants who have differing styles and philosophies and therefore potentially appeal to a wide and diversified range of clients . |
| 10 | Other enhancements such as the mouse pointer changing shape according to the function currently selected and changing curve points to corner points may be of less use but at the very least point to a great amount of thought being paid to the design of the program . |