Example sentences of "amounted [prep] no more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most systematic study of legacies sub modo , while drawing attention to the Scaevolan cases in which trusts are construed , points out that this amounted to no more than an isolated and sporadic tendency . |
| 2 | Perhaps , in some unimaginably distant region , the cosmos simply melted away into Chaos without sane dimensions — so that all the immensity of physical reality , all the billions of light years of stars and galaxies without number , amounted to no more than a tiny archipelago within a dire and senseless ocean of absurdity . |
| 3 | In Stein 's day the jade searchers of Chinese Turkestan had already taken to a kind of superficial mining , even if this amounted to no more than burrowing through overlying deposits to search the cobble bed down to depths of up to some twenty feet . |
| 4 | This , he said , could not be characterised as having breached the duty of good faith which amounted to no more than a principle of fair and honourable dealing . |
| 5 | But his defeated rival , the nationalist Stasys Lozoraitis , said Mr Brazauskas ' programme would not resolve Lithuania 's economic crisis and amounted to no more than cosmetic changes . |