Example sentences of "amounts [prep] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dostoevsky 's notebook word ‘ tone ’ amounts to more than dust and mortar and summer smells ; it catches up human beings and entangles them with the city . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However the executive staff could receive changed instructions from the Council acting collectively , which amounts to more than the member States acting collectively through their delegates . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In about 13% of schools , the money contributed by parents amounts to more than the schools ' official funding from their LEAs . |
| 6 | Whether this amounts to more than a row of beans these days is questionable . |