Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His legal advisers are anxious to establish a functioning police and judiciary system so that Somalis can begin to administer themselves — and thus bring to an end the violent anarchy that has caused the death from famine of up to 400,000 people . |
| 3 | An objection to liability in this case , advanced by Williams , is that the doctor who fails to treat has not done something ; he has merely failed to act , and an omission can not amount to an abetment . |
| 4 | The surrender of part did not amount to an eviction of the assignee , it resulted from an agreement between the assignee and the landlord : one can see details of that in the report of the Divisional Court decision ( 1888 ) 21 Q.B.D. 101 , 102 . |
| 5 | It was held that , although refusal to grant licences did not amount to an abuse as such , it could so do if refusal was arbitrary or if prices were fixed at unfair levels or if the right owner stopped making spare parts . |
| 6 | Even where the advertisement does not amount to an offence , the Director General may consider that an approach to the Advertising Standards Authority ( a non-statutory body with no legal powers ) would be an adequate way of dealing with the complaint . |
| 7 | Burglary is very slightly redefined in its s.9(1) ( b ) form to correct the anomaly that the infliction of grievous bodily harm need not amount to an offence . |
| 8 | One disputed point is whether words alone can constitute an assault : the preponderance of authority is probably that mere words , unaccompanied by any threatening conduct , can not amount to an assault , but if the point of the offence is to penalize the creation of fear of imminent attack , it is difficult to see why utterances such as ‘ Get out the knives ’ or ‘ Let's hit them ’ should be regarded more indulgently than a raised hand . |
| 9 | His conduct does not amount to an assault , since his use of force is lawful . |
| 10 | The requirement of immediate fear means that a threat to carry out violence in the future does not amount to an assault even though fear is present . |
| 11 | As the term suggests , these are letters from the Commission to notifying parties stating that the Commission does not believe that there is any need to take action in relation to the agreement or arrangement either because it falls outside Article 85(1) or because it may satisfy the requirements of Article 85(3) , although in such a case the issue of a comfort letter does not amount to an exemption pursuant to Article 85(3) . |
| 12 | It does not amount to an argument that staff should be conducting research as such ; merely that if they are engaged in it , there is an advantage to it being undertaken with an eye to their teaching commitments . |
| 13 | Accordingly , the accused 's behaviour did not amount to an intention permanently to deprive the owner of the information . |
| 14 | Where bookings occur by an exchange of letters , the initial inquiry by the guest does not amount to an offer to contract , nor necessarily does the hotel 's reply to the guest stating the tariff and room availability . |
| 15 | Similarly , the display of goods in a shop window does not amount to an offer , Fisher v. Bell ( 1961 D.C. ) . |
| 16 | A matter is defined as every proceeding in a county court which may be commenced as prescribed other than by plaint ( CCA , s 147(1) ) ie any proceeding which does not amount to an action . |
| 17 | And if these explorations conclusively point to an amalgamation with the T & g or any other union , then so be it . |
| 18 | Where a listed company promotes an on-market " buy-in " of its shares , where the shareholders usually sell to an intermediary and the intermediary sells back to the company , the capital gains tax rules , rather than the ACT/distribution regime , will also apply as far as the vendor shareholders are concerned . |
| 19 | Many American think-tanks , such as the Washington-based Institute for International Economics , still cling to an aura of academic detachment . |
| 20 | This will improve the tester 's familiarity with the test and gradually lead to an accumulation of knowledge of testing in general . |
| 21 | Such a state can only arise where structural surfaces very nearly conform to an equilibrium profile . |
| 22 | But ill-articulated as many people 's thoughts sometimes are in substance , they often amount to an assumption of semi-voluntary performative submission to an authority , because it is a morally worthwhile attitude to have . |
| 23 | We now turn to an examination of the third identifiable category of bargaining structure , economy-wide agreements in certain European countries . |
| 24 | We now turn to an alternative , fairly recent , intellectual tradition which emphasises the conflict of interests in the work-place and suggests that management , on behalf of capitalist interests , have moulded technical developments so that they suit these interests and run counter to the interests of labour . |
| 25 | In contrast to this first basic pattern of bargaining which has been delineated , industry-wide and multi-employer agreements , we now turn to an analysis of the rationale of single-employer bargaining at the level of the enterprise or plant ( not necessarily conterminous ) which is typically found in the United States , Canada and Japan . |
| 26 | Then fly to an area in which VMC can be maintained , and land at a suitable airfield . |
| 27 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |
| 28 | erm , so that if , if they then go to an appeal er , I was talking to this planning officer and I was saying that I think I 'll consult them , he said I do n't think you 'll need to he said , and of what you 've done so far is pretty good and I can get access to all the letters that have been written in , in objecting into the into the homes |
| 29 | In the remainder of this chapter , we will first briefly describe the methods of the survey of known drug users , and then turn to an examination of the findings . |
| 30 | At a roadside cottage at the end of the village ( a former toll bar ) , a narrow lane turns off the main road to the left and continues beyond a crossroads and the old railway track to start a long climb on the side of Casterton Fell and ultimately come to an end at Bullpot Farm . |