The phrase "amount to shoot" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a quantity or level related to shooting, but without context, it is ambiguous and unclear.
Example: "The total amount to shoot for the project was not specified."
Alternatives: "quantity to shoot" or "total to shoot".
Would not, then, appealing to quantum mechanical principles in explaining intracellular dynamics amount to shooting ourselves in the foot?
The board's animosity toward his group last week, he said, amounted to "shooting the messenger".
It was, I see now, a benign on-the-job learning curve for me, and I came to understand a huge amount about how to shoot a film professionally".
Sunflower Action responded Monday, saying that Kobach's comments amounted to him threatening to shoot peaceful activists.
"You can shoot digital video for pennies on the dollar, compared to 16-millimeter film," Mr. Davidson said, "which helps our documentary students immensely, because of the amount of footage they have to shoot".
Isaac: Choosing something is about, will it maintain my interest for the amount of time it takes to shoot it?
And though the moon and its patterns seem relatively predictable, the amount of detailed knowledge required to shoot with it are exponential.
He put the Red Storm players on notice that they would have to shoot through what amounted to ever-whirling helicopter propellers when he blocked Anthony Glover's first two shots to open the game.
There's a larger point you can make here, too: what does it say about our society and culture that one of the highest grossing entertainment releases of the year amounts to virtually shooting up airports filled with helpless victims, or where we entertain ourselves by virtually shooting our friends in the face with AK-47s?
Learn the importance of consistency - If your marker doesn't shoot an equal amount of air or CO2 each time, a good barrel hardly helps, you will not be able to shoot accurately.
