Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [vb base] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This stands for Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering and erm under this scheme , a company erm can have a problem tackled by a research student working in a university and erm a supervisor , and indeed in this case , the input , the financial input , by the company may be quite small , may only amount to a few hundred pounds . |
| 2 | Here , each individual act or continuing infraction may not amount to a significant harm of itself . |
| 3 | Thus although possibly it may amount to a transfer of value it could not amount to a chargeable transfer and it is only upon chargeable transfers that inheritance tax is payable . |
| 4 | Detinue , with its procedural disadvantages , wilted considerably under this treatment though it retained a place in the law because inability to redeliver as a result of loss or destruction of the goods could not amount to a positive denial of title for the purposes of conversion . |
| 5 | A breach of a covenant of quiet enjoyment may also amount to a criminal offence . |
| 6 | They note that for a deviation Δ of 10 -11 the accumulated effect over a year would only amount to a relative velocity of 1 µm s -1 towards the Sun ! |
| 7 | In addition , the bank 's refusal of the receipt message and of the eventual transfer of the bill of lading can also amount to a final rejection of beneficiary 's tender , especially when the discrepancy in the receipt message is major and incurable . |
| 8 | It can also amount to a fundamental critique of the student 's core discipline and , therefore , has to be handled with care , as it can be unsettling . |
| 9 | It is not necessary for me to hold that otherwise lawful use of a highway can never amount to a public nuisance , whatever the circumstances and however excessive the use . |