Example sentences of "amount [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heckling , or seeking temporarily to disrupt the speaker are insufficient to amount to such an offence . |
| 2 | A Jockey Club statement said : ‘ In the view of the stewards , no error of judgment highlighted by the committee arises from or is attributable to any breach of the rules of racing , nor does any such error of itself amount to such a breach . |
| 3 | I know that it can often amount to half the working week . |
| 4 | The gains recorded by the top 10 per cent of households amounted to 40 a week , mostly in lower taxes , while the middle income groups were little affected and the poorer ones lost over 10 a week in benefits and higher VAT . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that Moscow had severed relations with the dictator Batista in 1952 , the USSR had made somewhat erratic purchases of Cuban sugar throughout the 1950s , which amounted to half a million tons in the peak year , 1955 . |
| 6 | Presumably the freezing or canning of peas or the turning of meat into sausages would amount to such an industrial process . |