Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A journey to the capital in the late 18th century can scarcely have been as harrowing an affair as that made to Kent by William the Emigrant in 1711 . |
| 2 | Royalty paid by Atkinson & Hall during the years 1759–66 amounted to £403 : 15s . |
| 3 | In the latter case , Lord Diplock pointed out , at pp. 382–383 , that the decision in Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission [ 1969 ] 2 A.C. 147 applied to decisions of administrative tribunals or other administrative bodies made under statutory powers : in those cases there was a presumption that the statute conferring the power did not intend the administrative body to be the final arbiter of questions of law . |
| 4 | YOUR income for 1991-92 amounted to £5,820 before tax . |
| 5 | That led to TV appearances on Carrott 's Lib and Saturday Night Live , but her career took an unexpected turn when she spent 16 months with Robert Lindsay in the West End musical , Me And My Girl . |
| 6 | That led to Africa and to Kitchener 's campaigns . |
| 7 | that led to Hela 's drear abode . |
| 8 | Aquib shrugged off the flashpoint at Lord 's that led to Allan Lamb exposing Pakistan as cheats . |
| 9 | That led to warfare for about three months in our house . |
| 10 | That got to Niki . |
| 11 | Relations had deteriorated in September following reports of a speech on Sept. 11 by the US ambassador , Robert Oakley , to the Asia Society in Washington , in which Oakley had suggested that governments between 1985 and 1988 be subjected to the same process of " accountability " as that applied to members of Benazir Bhutto 's 1988-90 government . |
| 12 | The smaller landlords who could not find cash or credit to equip themselves as sugar planters quickly sold out ; land prices in the 1640s rose to heights which showed that the profits of sugar were being anticipated and capitalized generously . |
| 13 | Disgusting privvies , inadequate sewers , atmospheric pollution and the lack of piped water each contributed to Preston 's unprecedented public health problems . |
| 14 | ‘ In other words , ’ Cranston half whispered to Athelstan , ‘ the fellow is asking us when we are going to bugger off . ’ |
| 15 | Systems & Computer Technology Inc has reported fourth quarter net profits down 40.8% at $1m , after $180,000 tax credits this time and $638,000 last time , on turnover up 40.2% at $27.4m ; net losses for the year to September 30 amounted to $2.3m against profits of $4.7m last time , after $1.7m tax credits last time , on turnover that rose 39% to $90.9m . |
| 16 | Born January 3rd 1825 Laid to rest May 8th 1890 |
| 17 | Oxidation of H 2 coupled to reduction of Fe(III) ( reaction 1 b ) favours the precipitation of siderite through the formation of Fe 2+ and OH - . |
| 18 | ( In 1986 this amounted to £10,500 . ) |
| 19 | According to some estimates this amounted to $3,600,000 million , or more than the annual US gross domestic product . |
| 20 | It was held that this amounted to recklessness . |
| 21 | If , for example , it were to be suggested that management had paid insufficient attention to the development of the company 's product base , establishing that this amounted to negligence would be highly problematical . |
| 22 | The trial judge found this amounted to negligence . |
| 23 | In 1985 , this amounted to £64 but the first prize was only £40 . |
| 24 | DataCare has generated most of Phonelink 's turnover to date — in 1992 , this amounted to £923,000 , while pre-tax profits , after £414,000 research and development spend , were £31,000 . |
| 25 | In 1982 this amounted to £750 on a bungalow costing £16 300 . |
| 26 | The simultaneous withdrawal of the state from regulative intervention in labour matters clearly advantaged employers and it is hard to deny that all this amounted to class legislation . |
| 27 | Its leader , a Colonel Seymour , was charged with committing common assault on Charles Eyres , the leader of the Croydon branch of the organization , after a dispute in which Eyres claimed that Seymour had misappropriated funds and altered the constitution to turn himself into a virtual dictator ; this led to Seymour drawing a sword and pointing an unlicensed gun at Eyres . |
| 28 | This led to redundancy charges of £400,000 , or half the 1991 figure . |
| 29 | It wanted newspapers and the radio to be able to report where things went wrong , especially if this led to matters being put right . |
| 30 | This led to fears in some quarters that the polytechnics as tough , pragmatic and workaday institutions were unlikely to create a climate in which art and design could grow and flourish . |