Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We did n't get £28,000 which with 14 other bad debts amounted to £100,000 , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The profit for the year attributable to ordinary shareholders amounted to £20,618,000 . |
| 3 | Radical reshaping of the group 's operations away from retail outlets and into bakery operations led to write-offs last year , but this time there were no below-the-line expenses for store closures . |
| 4 | In the spring of 1990 particularly , trial runs of the assessment of 7-year-olds led to revelations about strain and frustration which led central government considerably to reduce its demands . |
| 5 | Discus queries got to STEVE DUDLEY of Euro-Discus . |
| 6 | In 1992 total cognac and spirits shipments amounted to FF 5,553 million . |
| 7 | The boy had been examined by a surgeon , Thomas Chapman , who found numerous wheals , bruises and lacerations , and his report to the guardians led to proceedings being taken against the tailor before the County magistrates ; he was convicted and fined £5 . |
| 8 | Further violent demonstrations by mass pickets led to £525,000 additional fines being imposed . |
| 9 | One strategy involved tackling the profession on its own terms , refuting statistics and medical claims that the acts led to improvements in morality and public order through a mass of published tracts and pamphlets . |
| 10 | The Bank of England 's quarterly bulletin says 5% of disclosures from financial institutions led to prosecutions . |
| 11 | They estimated that the cost in terms of benefit paid amounted to £7.44 bn ; the cost in terms of lost taxes amounted to £7.27 bn ; and the cost in terms of lost national insurance contributions amounted to £5.20 bn . |
| 12 | Pressures from the DES and what in some cases amounted to directives from local authorities , led the colleges concerned to move away from outright hostility to testing out what degree of autonomy and protection for art and design would be forthcoming within the polytechnic structure . |
| 13 | She received £50 per annum extra ( and the net savings to the guardians amounted to £90 for the year ) . |
| 14 | ‘ After that , all roads led to Hollywood . ’ |
| 15 | The group 's total portfolio investments amounted to £2,596m at 31 March 1992 : equity shares came to £1,145m , preference shares £228m , loan investments £1,088m , investment properties £16m , associated undertakings £85m and investment leases £34m . |
| 16 | In 1992 , LVMH 's total sales of perfume and beauty products amounted to FF 5,487 million . |
| 17 | Not particularly tough , I ventured , when last year in court cases arising from pollution at ICI sites on the Tees and Mersey , guilty verdicts led to fines of only a couple of thousand pounds in each case : ICI could find that from petty cash . |
| 18 | Argentina 's debt to the Paris Club creditors amounted to $5,500 million on a total foreign debt of some $60,000 million , of which almost nothing had been paid since April 1988 . |
| 19 | But Smith 's tacit acquiescence with the notion that the method adopted by these researchers amounted to deception and that such deception needs to be justified ( by pointing out the importance of the question being asked ) should not go unchallenged . |
| 20 | The detailed notes appended to Ord 15 or amendments should be referred to . |
| 21 | Poor control over shipments led to theft and other misdemeanours . |
| 22 | In all , his public bequests amounted to c . |
| 23 | He did not know of it , a thought which after a few minutes occurred to Wainfleet when Wickham encountered him in the pub . |
| 24 | There were also pages of poems forced into some sort of rhyming structure so that they might conceivably have worked as songs , several paragraphs of references to critical works ( Barthes , especially ; Death of the Author ! shouted what looked like a headline over one entire page of notes devoted to ideas about a looseleaf novel/poem ? ? |
| 25 | An integral part of the ‘ new frontier ’ activities — and therefore of the diversification of higher education — was the widespread development of academic and professional networks , not only through the validation machinery , but also through conferences and meetings devoted to curriculum and subject development . |
| 26 | Luigi pretended to cuff him across the ear . |
| 27 | I had no interest in charitable works , or in clubs devoted to flower-arranging , debating futile motions or even poetry-reading , seeing such activities as being designed to fill out the time of future ladies of leisure . |
| 28 | Total losses amounted to £5 million over three years . |
| 29 | Penril Datacommunications Network Inc has reported second quarter net profits down 87.4% at $102,000 , on turnover up 12.4% at $13.3m ; mid-term net losses amounted to $694,000 against profits of $1.6m last time , on turnover up 3% at $24.6m . |
| 30 | Dotronix Inc has reported second quarter net losses of $181,331 against profits of $212,710 last time , on turnover down 21.6% at $4.3m ; mid-term net losses amounted to $138,101 down from losses of $333,250 last time , on turnover down 5.4% at $10m . |