Example sentences of "[vb -s] to more than 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 | After all , Levi admits to more than a passing interest in things financial , shall we say . |
| 6 | 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 . |