Example sentences of "amount to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't believe the mild , interested responses — before long I was actually having what amounted to a conversation . |
| 2 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 3 | On Nov. 1 it was officially announced that the grain harvest had amounted to a record 240 million tonnes . |
| 4 | Mann was also followed in Raviraj ( 1987 ) 85 Cr.App.R. 93 , where the unsuccessful contention on appeal was that the admission of an interview containing some answers and some refusals to comment amounted to a breach of the right to silence . |
| 5 | The House of Lords upheld the issuing of an injunction on the ground that the publication would have amounted to a contempt . |
| 6 | It no longer aroused feelings of exasperation , as it had done when he failed to link what had amounted to a form of work paralysis with the hopelessness which Dave must have felt about himself both at home and at school . |
| 7 | In the tense silence which followed this remark , all eyes now turned upon the couple who had been fetched from their bedroom ; the couple who had decided that any further diet of delightful architecture would have amounted to a sort of cultural force-feeding . |
| 8 | The alternative to this has amounted to a reaffirmation of historicism almost as if nothing had happened . |
| 9 | This would suggest that sterling eurobonds not listed in London would , at end September 1991 , have amounted to a figure between £14 million and £19 million . |
| 10 | It amounts to a determination or tendency to accept as conceptually respectable , and as a report of reality , only what is in accord with some part of scientific practice , or a fully specified calculus , or particular and explicit scientific laws , or particular kinds of quantification , or some principle in the philosophy of science . |
| 11 | It amounts to a reprimand . ’ |
| 12 | The history of Western Marxism amounts to a history of attempts to provide a means for transcending the condition of alienation and achieving that lost totality , not through irony or a reified homogeneous temporality , as in Lukács ' novel , but , according to his formulation of Marxism , through history and class consciousness . |
| 13 | ( It may be , however , that the causal theory amounts to a notion of justification in the particular case ; see 2.4 ) |
| 14 | It is necessary , in my judgment , to look at the facts somewhat closely to see what amounts to a discharge and how far the reasoning can be applied to the case , not of joint and several debtors , but of several debtors alone , albeit all liable for the same debt . |
| 15 | It amounts to a call for a revolution in ways of thinking to break out of the constraints that a falsely mechanistic interpretation of science has imposed on ourselves and our world . |
| 16 | This amounts to a total of six million books , apart from its own vast library of nine million volumes . |
| 17 | Customs may argue that this amounts to a landlord 's repairing lease . |
| 18 | The question is whether the prohibition on alienating the land followed by the exhortation to keep it for descendants amounts to a trust . |
| 19 | For it is assumed that God , who is conceived in highly anthropomorphic terms , has given what amounts to a blueprint to humanity as to what His will may be . |
| 20 | Thirdly , there must be a delivery of the subject matter of the gift , or the essential indicia of title thereto , which amounts to a parting with dominion and not mere physical possession over the subject matter of the gift . |
| 21 | Such amounts to a kind of agroforestry type of manipulation of the environment and is known to be practised by other groups , e.g. the Bora of the Peruvian Amazon . |
| 22 | It amounts to a pat on the back . |
| 23 | Such an interview almost amounts to a conversation . |
| 24 | 1.1 Modern judicial views on the ambit of the doctrine In Petrofina ( Great Britain ) Ltd v Martin [ 1966 ] Ch 146 two members of the Court of Appeal attempted to define what amounts to a restraint of trade . |
| 25 | Sometimes it is open to doubt whether the language used by your employer , taken in context , amounts to a dismissal . |
| 26 | This means that if your employer says , ‘ Resign or be sacked ’ , that amounts to a dismissal . |
| 27 | This amounts to a quest for possible ways in which Tit for Tat individuals might happen to cluster together in sufficient numbers that they can all benefit at the banker 's expense . |
| 28 | In other words , controls can be exercised indirectly by negotiation over what amounts to a question of how much can be charged against local tax . |
| 29 | This so called sovereignty amounts to a choice between a continued run on the pound and an interest-rate-induced slump . |
| 30 | The sensory attributes of an odour capable of measurement include its intensity , character , acceptability and detectability , all of which are relevant in deciding whether or not a particular odour amounts to a nuisance at law . |