Example sentences of "that it amounted to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weiss was Ritschl 's son-in-law , and had set out to investigate the theme of the kingdom of God in the synoptic gospels with a suspicion that it amounted to something rather different from what Ritschl had made of it . |
| 2 | Lentricchia 's argument was quickly endorsed by Terry Eagleton who claimed first that poststructuralism represented a ‘ hedonist withdrawal from history ’ ( aestheticism ) and , a year later , that it amounted to a more menacing holocaust-like ‘ liquidation of history ’ . |
| 3 | However , the Divisional Court held that it amounted to a common law contempt in that the Sun had , in spite of its editor 's protestations to the contrary , intended to interfere with the administration of justice . |
| 4 | In the present case the argument was at one stage canvassed that requesting the receipt with the consequent obtaining of fingerprints , should be regarded separately from the main issue , that it amounted to a separate trick within a trick . |
| 5 | The appellants applied to discharge the registrar 's order on the ground , firstly , that it was in all the circumstances oppressive and secondly , that it amounted to the use of section 236(2) for a purpose not intended by Parliament . |
| 6 | The drizzle was so fine that it amounted to fog and he had to drive slowly . |
| 7 | Opponents of the bill had argued that it amounted to " retroactive justice " by declaring illegal acts committed in another country and allowing the prosecution of people for offences committed before they became British citizens or residents . |
| 8 | Minority Constituent Assembly groups not consulted , along with PL and Social Conservative Party ( PSC ) delegates in the Congress , strongly criticized the pact , claiming that it amounted to a period of " presidential dictatorship " . |
| 9 | In a tract of 1695 , Ferguson complained that William had " departed from our known Laws … utterly Impoverished us " , and had attempted to bribe " so many Members of both Houses to sell their Country " that it amounted to " a direct subversion of the Constitution " . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal granted a limited injunction against the newspaper on the basis that Mr Kaye had an arguable case that it amounted to " malicious falsehood " to claim that he had voluntarily surrendered a valuable property right ( ie in his " exclusive " story ) in these circumstances . |