Example sentences of "amount to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means not only avoiding the use of words which might amount to a resignation on your part , but also checking whether words that apparently mean that your job has ended were actually intended to have that effect . |
| 2 | A refusal to do so would amount to a resignation , and the employee would prima facie not be entitled to any compensation payment , unless , for example , he were prevented from working out his notice period . |
| 3 | Where parties do business together on the same terms on a regular basis over a period of time , their trading may amount to a course of dealing . |
| 4 | Do they amount to a trust of the hundred ? |
| 5 | You 're asked to support the general move , that we have set out from this report , and you 're asked to agree to St Clements and East Ward , and I think we 've heard Mandy and Phil acknowledge that there may well be a case for looking at an area of council housing , which we will leave them to do , and also to approve the set of objectives , which I particularly welcome , on page sixty-two and sixty-three , which will amount to a work programme , which I would have thought we were all very pleased to see . |
| 6 | A sceptic wishing to challenge our belief in the existence of re-identifiable objective particulars in space and time , it is argued , can not present his case coherently , for his doubts would amount to a rejection of the whole conceptual scheme within which alone such doubts make sense " . |
| 7 | This could amount to a defect . |
| 8 | A failure to give the warning may amount to a defect . |
| 9 | For an area within a currency block , like north-east England , it may amount to a tendency towards high unemployment . |
| 10 | ‘ When will an offensive odour amount to a nuisance at common law , in the absence of actual physical damage to property ? ’ i.e. ‘ When will the interference caused by the perception of the odour be ‘ unreasonable ’ in the eyes of the law ? ’ |
| 11 | Often odour nuisance is the result of emissions from several sources , none of which alone would amount to a nuisance at common law , but should the aggregate odour amount to a nuisance at law , it is no defence that the nuisance was caused by many . |
| 12 | Often odour nuisance is the result of emissions from several sources , none of which alone would amount to a nuisance at common law , but should the aggregate odour amount to a nuisance at law , it is no defence that the nuisance was caused by many . |
| 13 | It may be argued that the use of premises as a disco or late-night entertainment venue , especially if such premises are in a residential area , may amount to a nuisance to adjoining occupiers . |
| 14 | Though not sudden , such changes will amount to a revolution in our schools . |
| 15 | In other words , the decision to remain neutral , according to the terms of our present definition , would amount to a decision to allow the naturally strong child to prevail . |
| 16 | This subordination of all other considerations — including qualifications — to race , it was argued , would amount to a system of de facto racial job " quotas " , a term much used but with several different meanings . |
| 17 | In considering the issue of legitimacy in relation to our constitutional arrangements and the exercise of governmental power , what has to be done is to examine a range of practices , decisions , actions ( and non-practices , -decisions and -actions ) statements and policies which between them can amount to a portrait of power , so that we can form a judgment or an assessment of that power set against the principles of limited government outlined and discussed so far . |
| 18 | The exchange 's acquiescence in a practice which it could reasonably be expected to have been aware of could amount to a waiver or estoppel ; enough at any rate to deter the exchange from taking disciplinary action against members who have followed the particular practice . |
| 19 | Rick might have put it a little differently : ‘ The problems of the little people do n't amount to a row of beans in this crazy world . ’ |
| 20 | While Mayer was willing to finance films from Gainsborough if they brought him Hitchcock 's The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ) , and would pay £150,000 for six films from Robert Donat , that did n't amount to a love affair with the British film industry . |
| 21 | Thus although possibly it may amount to a transfer of value it could not amount to a chargeable transfer and it is only upon chargeable transfers that inheritance tax is payable . |
| 22 | US officials said this did amount to a description of a rouble gold standard , but emphasised that Mr Baker was not prescribing or even recommending policy to Moscow . |
| 23 | 600,000 men ( 12:37 ) : counting the women and children this would amount to a total of some two million people — a high ( though not necessarily impossible ) figure which presents some problems . |
| 24 | To perform the court 's order could require the doctor to act in a manner which he or she genuinely believed not to be in the patient 's best interests ; to fail to treat the child as ordered would amount to a contempt of court . |
| 25 | Lastly , breach of such an undertaking or court order will amount to a contempt of court . |
| 26 | Some in the polytechnics fear the changes , allowing them to become universities , will amount to a takeover , and in a second dispute , they have accused one of the universities ' ruling bodies of poaching senior staff . |
| 27 | Corporal punishment amounts to anything done for the purposes of punishing the pupil , whether or not there ire other reasons for doing it , which would amount to a battery . |
| 28 | The cover would amount to a maximum of £15,000 in total , with a limit of £1,000 per day of the proceedings . |
| 29 | Suppose we identify the semantic content of a sentence with its truth conditions , then the semantic content of ( 4 ) Letizia de Ramolino was the mother of Napoleon will amount to a specification of the circumstances under which it would be true , namely that the individual known as Letizia de Ramolino was in fact identical to the individual who was the mother of Napoleon . |
| 30 | He found that the squatters ' actions were not foreseeable in this sense and therefore did amount to a novus actus interveniens . |