Example sentences of "would [verb] amount to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was forecast that by the close of 1991 the revenue from sales worldwide of CD-ROM hardware and software would have amounted to some $3.2 billion of which the title component would be $2.3 billion , a proportion which would steadily increase . |
| 2 | Such stroppiness would have amounted to commercial suicide after ten months of silence . |
| 3 | Government simply had to act ; not to do so would have amounted to avoiding a problem that was ‘ evident ’ and ‘ plain' to all , particularly those who watched the news on television ! |
| 4 | It seemed at the time too obvious for extensive formulation , but had they spelt it out it would have amounted to something like 2 . |
| 5 | The House of Lords upheld the issuing of an injunction on the ground that the publication would have amounted to a contempt . |
| 6 | The substitution of a term of detention under section 53(2) would have amounted to an increase in the sentence , which is permissible only on a reference by the Attorney General under Criminal Justice Act 1988 , s.36 . |
| 7 | It by no means follows that if B had been made bankrupt the dividend would have amounted to the sum obtained , so that the bank might have got less . |
| 8 | According to estimates put out by the Reuters news agency , however , interest payments alone would have amounted to almost US$10,000 million for the year . |
| 9 | In the tense silence which followed this remark , all eyes now turned upon the couple who had been fetched from their bedroom ; the couple who had decided that any further diet of delightful architecture would have amounted to a sort of cultural force-feeding . |
| 10 | However , a £20 million gain from the sale of Weber Aircraft in the US was included in profits allowing Hanson to report an increase — had they been excluded profits would have amounted to £216 million , the bottom of a range of City estimates . |