Example sentences of "[noun] amount to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt that such ‘ impersonal ’ coverage amounted to a propaganda victory for the IRA . |
| 2 | Berle offered the American objections to international control , insisting that the British proposals amounted to a 50–50 division of traffic on the North Atlantic route . |
| 3 | Such extraordinary conditions as prevailed , for example , in the lead works at Whitechapel amounted to a virtual death sentence . |
| 4 | His allowing X to repossess the car amounted to a ‘ delivery or transfer ’ of it under a ‘ disposition . ’ |
| 5 | The question was whether the captain 's decision to put out the boat amounted to a novus actus interveniens . |
| 6 | The extent of import penetration amounts to a serious decline in Britain 's competitive position . |
| 7 | Although Mr. Philipson demurred when the suggestion was put to him , it is palpably clear that his submission amounts to a direct challenge to Mr. Barnes ' affidavit , which contains the clearest possible evidence that the Bank of England did indeed require these documents for the purposes of its own supervisory functions ; this will of course involve collaboration and co-ordination with the Federal Reserve Board 's supervision , on which , as he states expressly in paragraph 13(b) , the Bank of England is in part dependent . |
| 8 | It is an implied term of the contract that the seller should have a right to sell the goods ( SGA 1979 , s12 ) and it has been held that a breach of this implied condition amounts to a total non-performance of the contract by the seller . |
| 9 | AT&T says the deal amounts to a fundamental change in its managerial style and will take years to prove itself . |
| 10 | Moderator I reported to the general assembly last year that the Board of Social Responsibility had planned a deficit on its operation of thirty eight eventide homes amounting to a little over two million pounds . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has also made it clear that conduct ‘ which a literal interpretation of the written words of the contract might appear to justify ’ may in practice amount to a destruction of the relationship of trust and confidence . |
| 13 | And it legitimately widens the scope of who can count as an academic peer : no longer can peer review amount to a cosy chat among academics sharing but not exposing taken-for-granted assumptions . |
| 14 | Since the relevant words are ‘ I know , Pamphilus , that everything I leave you will pass to my sons … ’ , the question can be broken down into two parts : do these words amount to a trust at all ? |
| 15 | Between 1981–2 and 1985–6 , total public costs associated with enterprise zones amounted to a gross figure of almost £400 million . |
| 16 | The applicants in the main proceedings also claimed that the nationality requirement amounted to a serious infringement of the rights of ‘ joint venture ’ boats under article 168(4) in conjunction with Annex XII to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Communities 1985 ( ‘ the Act of Accession 1985 ’ ) ( Official Journal 1985 No . |
| 17 | Middlebrook said that the campaign amounted to a direct and therefore unlawful interference with its contracts of supply with supermarkets , but the Court of Appeal seems to have thought that this was overridden by the right of freedom of speech . |
| 18 | Allied casualties amounted to a score of airmen killed or captured . |
| 19 | She was remembering long and hot arguments with Milly and Helen in Liverpool where she , Alice , had said that their attitude amounted to a contempt for men so total that in effect they suppressed all serious thought about them . |
| 20 | Delivering the annual Granada Lecture , Sir Leon outlined a programme for achieving a prosperous and non-bureaucratic European Community , but its main thrust amounted to a rebuttal of her highly-personalised terms for further progress towards economic and monetary union . |
| 21 | But in practice the status of English as the lingua franca is assured for the foreseeable future — and the need for the language in many countries amounts to a clamour . |
| 22 | In reality , however , the issue amounts to a pre-ordained acquisition of new shares for cash by third parties ( ie the underwriters ) . |
| 23 | The question is whether the prohibition on alienating the land followed by the exhortation to keep it for descendants amounts to a trust . |
| 24 | This so called sovereignty amounts to a choice between a continued run on the pound and an interest-rate-induced slump . |
| 25 | No reductions or credit notes will be given under circumstances amounting to a ‘ force majeure ’ which means : war or threat of war , riot , civil strife , industrial dispute , terrorist activity , accident , natural or nuclear disaster , fire , airline failure , closure of airport or ports , and adverse weather conditions . |
| 26 | I may have been wrong proportionately as many times as the result of an amniocentesis turns out to have been wrong : that is , being wrong in both cases amounts to a hypothetical possibility , but is not normal . |
| 27 | When they finally appear , they turn out — in what for this play amounts to a considerable comic twist — to have been fitted with the wrong plug . |
| 28 | The comparison between these groups amounts to a comparison between subjects given acquired distinctiveness training and controls given a form of acquired equivalence training and confirms the result found elsewhere . |
| 29 | They believe the decision amounts to a breach of contract and plan to take the case to court . |
| 30 | It is accepted that not every ‘ foul ’ committed in breach of the rules amounts to a crime , and it seems to be assumed that players do , and may lawfully , consent to physical force over and above the minimum permitted by the rules . |