Example sentences of "really amounts [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in order to convince the public of what it really amounts to , I decided to do something entirely out of the ordinary , that is , to get Wolfgang to write an opera for the theatre . |
| 2 | But yesterday 's announcement really amounts to an admission that the Government badly bungled its first attempt to lay down by law how English should be taught in schools — only two years ago . |
| 3 | The problem for Foucault is that this argument involves more than just madness as such , for it really amounts to a questioning of the very possibility of critique . |
| 4 | At the moment unc or ⅓ of the building is lit up , so if half of these are turned off then the problem really amounts to working out ½ of ⅓ |
| 5 | That is what the " diversity of human culture " really amounts to ; the variety of different ways which human beings choose to cut up the continuities of their animal experience . |
| 6 | So the definition really amounts to : pragmatics is the study of the role context plays in speaker- ( or utterance- ) meaning . |
| 7 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 8 | I suppose what it really amounts to , it 's probably someone who 's in the same line of business and they 're trying to get the best way are n't they ? |