Example sentences of "amount [prep] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990 , these amounted to more than half of its Dm25.9 billion budget . |
| 2 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 3 | Dostoevsky 's notebook word ‘ tone ’ amounts to more than dust and mortar and summer smells ; it catches up human beings and entangles them with the city . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One about Flaubert , one about Ellen , one about myself My own is the simplest of the three — it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence — and yet I find it the hardest to begin . |
| 7 | In about 13% of schools , the money contributed by parents amounts to more than the schools ' official funding from their LEAs . |
| 8 | Whether this amounts to more than a row of beans these days is questionable . |
| 9 | Group size is very small , rarely amounting to more than a singleton or a mother with a dependent infant . |
| 10 | Harsh and angry with undercurrents of lovelorn bitterness , but you ca n't imagine them amounting to more than a mere outlet for crowd frustration . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A significant variance could be defined as one amounting to more than a given percentage of the budget but which is not explained by the general level of prices , i.e. inflation or deflation . |
| 13 | Without that , no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters . |
| 14 | Although these differences of terminology amount to more than semantic predilections , for they support — perhaps even generate — rival conceptions of the limits of contractual obligations , the generic idea remains a special exercise of choice by an individual , through which he deliberately incurs a binding legal responsibility . |
| 15 | It must also amount to more than simple investments in bricks and mortar and extend beyond conventional methods of professional development for primary care practitioners . |
| 16 | Whether citizens ' charters on the model of those introduced in Great Britain from 1991 onwards amount to more than a symbolic empowerment of consumer-citizens remains to be seen . |
| 17 | Her book sales amounted to more than a quarter of a million . |
| 18 | Companies in which foreign capital amounted to more than half of the total capital constituted 63.1 per cent of all joint-stock companies . |
| 19 | Professor Dyos estimated that newcomers never amounted to more than between 12 to 16 per cent of the total population of south London districts in any single decade , but that this rate of immigration was sufficient to create communities in which less than half the inhabitants had been born within that part of Greater London which lay south of the Thames . |
| 20 | For most of this period , transfers to the state enterprises amounted to more than the total public deficit ( Gimeno 1984 : 88–92 ) . |
| 21 | The famous experiments carried out and observed by Erikson at the University of California indicate that such arguments may amount to more than outmoded Freudian theorising . |
| 22 | ‘ It does n't amount to more than gossip , you know . |
| 23 | What assurance can he give the House that that will amount to more than crumbs from the European Commission 's table ? |