Example sentences of "would have been tantamount to " in BNC.

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1 Saxon Christianity in Kiev would have been tantamount to an attack , at least culturally , on the Byzantine flank .
2 An attack would have been tantamount to committing suicide , so reluctantly Stirling gave orders to leave the town and head back for the rendezvous with the LRDG .
3 To do otherwise would have been tantamount to branding yourself an obscene , inhuman monster , an outcast from civilized society .
4 To brand the Celtic Church heretical would have been tantamount to a declaration of war ; and in the event of such a war , Rome would have had no prospect whatever of victory .
5 The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics .
6 The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics .
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