Example sentences of "[adv] amount to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to do so amounted to a dereliction of duty in the same way that Callaghan 's statement misunderstood the political content of media imagery . |
| 2 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 3 | A lawful act which is performed carelessly does not automatically become an unlawful act for this purpose , even if a lawful act done carelessly amounts to an offence ( e.g. careless driving ) : Andrews v DPP , above . |
| 4 | History , far from constituting a privileged form of ( historical ) knowledge , is simply the myth of modern man , and merely amounts to a method of analysis . |
| 5 | The simplest form of cost system merely amounts to an analysis or separate cost record for each individual contract or development project . |
| 6 | This offence carries the right to jury trial , and the judge declined to usurp the jury 's role by declaring that future conduct by the Society would necessarily amount to an offence . |
| 7 | The odour may be objectionable to him but is it sufficiently so to amount to a nuisance at law ? |
| 8 | Community relations in Easton thus amounts to a programme of youth work , but juvenile liaison is altogether different , for it is basically probation work . |
| 9 | If a threat in the dark not amounting to a threat to kill within s.16 , OAPA , is not an assault the result in relation to unlawful act or constructive manslaughter is this . |
| 10 | This does not amount to a rejection of Marx but points to an absence in his work and leaves Habermas free to retain a basically Marxist account of the forces of production and at the same time develop a theory of social relations of communicative production . |
| 11 | Obligations concerned with the day-to-day upkeep of leasehold property have also been placed upon tenants , although this implied covenant " to act in a tenant-like manner " , does not amount to a requirement to make repairs . |
| 12 | Where a defendant states that he did not know that he was disqualified this will not amount to a defence Taylor v Kenyon [ 1952 ] 2 All ER 726 . |
| 13 | A bona fide belief that the victim was 16 or over when the indecent assault took place will not amount to a defence ( R v Maughan ( 1934 ] , 24 Cr App R 130 ) . |
| 14 | The components of a chemical compound can be identified and their concentrations measured , but unless it has already been proved that the particular component identified is odorous at the concentration encountered , such measurements will have little evidential value in proving the odour complained of either does or does not amount to a nuisance at law . |
| 15 | The essays in this book do not amount to a programme : but they are intended to provide a springboard for one . |
| 16 | This does not amount to a breach of contract by the hotel unless the misrepresentation is incorporated into the contract and thus forms one of its terms . |
| 17 | The Conservative case is that the present economic situation does not amount to a crisis . |
| 18 | There are several reasons for this extension but the most important in the case of the declaration is that , being a non-coercive remedy ( which means that failure to comply with a declaration does not amount to a contempt of court ) , it is available against the Crown ; and it is very useful in other situations where the seeking of a coercive remedy might be thought unnecessarily aggressive , and where the plaintiff is confident that the defendant will do the right thing once a court says what it is . |
| 19 | Finally , I shall refer briefly to section 4(2) of the 1981 Act which qualifies the general rule that a fair and accurate report of legal proceedings will not amount to a contempt . |
| 20 | If the IRA were besieging Hampstead , the liberals there would soon realise that tolerance and compromise do not amount to a policy for fighting terror . |
| 21 | A wound has been defined as an injury which breaks both the outer and inner skin — a bruise or a burst blood-vessel in an eye would not amount to a wound . |
| 22 | His allowing the customer to have possession of the car did not amount to a representation that the customer had the right to sell it . |
| 23 | This does not amount to a recognition of the authority of that government . |
| 24 | It did not amount to a commitment for full compensation for pensioners but it was a long way from where the Chancellor started two days earlier . |
| 25 | He said this did not amount to a demand for a right of veto : ‘ The principle we stick to is that the PLO will be totally out of the picture . ’ |
| 26 | When the preference shares are redeemed , the amount payable on redemption , less any premium , will not amount to a distribution . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal considered that the information did not amount to a trade secret . |
| 28 | Trover became a complete alternative to replevin despite the fact that it could be argued that , the goods being regarded as in the custody of the law , the distraint did not amount to a denial of the owner 's title . |
| 29 | Without this provision it was possible to have a share-for-debenture exchange which fell within s127 TCGA 1992 and did not amount to a disposal even though the debenture was an exempt simple debt , rather than a security . |
| 30 | ( e ) The suicide did not amount to a novus actus interveniens . |