Example sentences of "that amounts to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the current exchange rates that amounts to a mere £159 . |
| 2 | They seem to think that you can ask a businessman what his requirements are and get an answer that amounts to a draft system specification . |
| 3 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 4 | Pascal , Butler and Newman pointed out in their different ways that religious belief can be endangered by too much evidence for the existence of God — evidence that amounts to proof . |
| 5 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has said that it is impossible to itemise every circumstance that amounts to a breach of natural justice , while making it clear that , for example , a manager should not normally act both as ‘ witness and judge ’ in the procedure leading to a decision to dismiss . |
| 6 | He has vilified Simon Bates with a campaign that amounts to persecution and he flies into a howling rage every time he hears Sing Something Simple ( R2 ) . |
| 7 | To acknowledge that amounts to something very different from simply excising history as such . |
| 8 | And that basically that amounts to standardiz standardization of products . |
| 9 | Sisley was principally a landscape painter and there are very few still lifes or portraits in an oeuvre that amounts to some 900 pictures . |
| 10 | There is a great deal of potential here for criminalising conduct that amounts to little more than arguing with a policeman , which it should be one of the aims of public order law to prevent . |
| 11 | However , there is no agreement among researchers as to the length of this " natural " period of abstaining or to the length that amounts to a " contraceptive method " or to a " traditional custom of post-partum abstinence " . |
| 12 | A.G. Kennedy , its most recent editor , has noted that " apart from chs. 25 – 7 there is nothing that amounts to much more than injunctions that justice should be done and that every man should do his duty " . |
| 13 | We can for example say that in West Germany erm a worker who 's paid contributions for forty-five years gets an old-age pension that amounts to about seventy-five percent of what he was taking home in take-home pay before he retired , and obviously this looks a much better deal than the British old age pensioner gets . |