Example sentences of "to [adj] [det] [conj] 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 | In the course of their observations several authors comment in passing on the confusion created by gratuitous editorial practices of reducing note-values to half those that the composer thought appropriate — a muddle which is exemplified perfectly by the printing of ‘ five minims ’ where , in terms of the music example supplied , ‘ five semibreves ’ was meant ( see line 27 of p.13 ) . |
| 8 | Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |