Example sentences of "[verb] to [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has not convinced his hometown audience that the larger goal of the Gulf war — the crafting of a new world order — amounts to more than a string of words . |
| 2 | One about Flaubert , one about Ellen , one about myself My own is the simplest of the three — it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence — and yet I find it the hardest to begin . |
| 3 | Whether this amounts to more than a row of beans these days is questionable . |
| 4 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 5 | Group size is very small , rarely amounting to more than a singleton or a mother with a dependent infant . |
| 6 | Harsh and angry with undercurrents of lovelorn bitterness , but you ca n't imagine them amounting to more than a mere outlet for crowd frustration . |
| 7 | Regretting ‘ that he had no power to send him to prison without the option of a fine ’ , the magistrate imposed a fine of 40 shillings ( probably amounting to more than a month 's wages ) or twenty-one days ' hard labour . |
| 8 | A significant variance could be defined as one amounting to more than a given percentage of the budget but which is not explained by the general level of prices , i.e. inflation or deflation . |
| 9 | A DC changes state to REJECTED if a user has rejected the DC using option 2.2.0 but only when the last interested user has assessed the DC . |
| 10 | Whether citizens ' charters on the model of those introduced in Great Britain from 1991 onwards amount to more than a symbolic empowerment of consumer-citizens remains to be seen . |
| 11 | Here the density of the labouring population speaks for itself , though while in the Cosford villages it reached almost 55 per cent , in the rising centre Hadleigh it amounted to less than a third . |
| 12 | Her book sales amounted to more than a quarter of a million . |
| 13 | Differences do not , as we have seen with Fig. 8.4 , necessarily mean conflict , but they can easily lead to this if a spirit of possessiveness is also present ( as discussed in Chapter 3 , p. 34 ) . |
| 14 | A failure to understand this essential point could lead to more than a trade war . |
| 15 | Fears that the US occupation would wreak vengeance on those who had assisted the war effort , brought about the sabotage of industrial plant and industrial output fell to less than a third of pre-war levels . |
| 16 | The Spraire Lads football team , good lads too , got £300 but the Darlington and District Council did n't get to much as a packet of bird seed , on the grounds that they had enough already . |
| 17 | After all , Levi admits to more than a passing interest in things financial , shall we say . |
| 18 | Yet there were those who moved easily around the margins , and I am certain the profound effects of this liminal time extended to more than a few of us who made this transition into structural limbo . |
| 19 | In CD 's day railway signal-lights were normally kept at green , but changed to red when a train was actually in a station or about to enter it . |
| 20 | If the report runs to more than a few pages , there should always be a list of the various sections and headings to be found in the report . |
| 21 | Mike would never agree to less than a six per cent royalty . |