Example sentences of "to [adj] [adj] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His well-meaning attempt at being nice to Black Britons amounted to little more than the recital of a catalogue of sporting achievement . |
| 2 | Whatever Isabella 's private intentions may have been , the deposition of the king had so far formed no part of her publicly declared programme , which amounted to little more than the removal of the Despensers . |
| 3 | Extended development of heads and others has in the past amounted to little more than the agglomeration of courses relating to specific short-term issues . |
| 4 | Another writer has argued that , apart from the period of financial crisis in the immediate aftermath of the war , government control amounted to little more than the application of Keynesian nostrums and wartime controls rather than the application of thoroughgoing plans for the reconstruction of industry . |
| 5 | For the moment , the revolution of 1327 seemed to amount to little more than the replacement of one greedy and unscrupulous faction by another . |
| 6 | For the French the peace of the last years of the fourteenth century led to little more than the need to garrison their frontiers . |
| 7 | All polymerases bind the T7 promoter with an affinity 10-fold higher than the lac promoter and 20 to 50-fold higher than the gal promoter . |
| 8 | Trivers argues that the chances of selection favouring altruistic behaviour in which individuals dispense a benefit to another greater than the cost of the act will be improved when many potentially altruistic situations arise in the population , when there are repetitive interactions of the same kind within a small group of individuals , and where symmetrical situations favouring the return of benefits are common . |
| 9 | Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care . |
| 10 | At day 21 , histamine had significantly increased the basal growth of MKN45G to 1.6 more than the control , p<0.002 , Mann-Whitney ) and this was significantly reversed by coadministration of cimetidine ( p<0.02 , Mann-Whitney ) . |
| 11 | I know that so long as I do n't manage to count up to one hundred before the spasm ceases , I shall live . |
| 12 | In South Dakota the number of cattle has dropped from 5.2 million to four million since the bankruptcy crisis of ‘ 85 , and the human population is down 20 per cent . |
| 13 | Under the 1988 Act the following services must be open to competitive tender if the council wishes to permit its own service departments to participate : |