Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] no more than an " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are kept reading by the promise of an original sin or trauma that will justify — either in psychological or moral terms — the very existence of the story , but stripped of the successive identities he has built up over the years , Philip 's father is revealed as no more than an insecure , over-imaginative little boy . |
| 2 | It may be concluded from this that prey size can be used as no more than an approximation to predator type , and size spectra are certainly not predator-specific . |
| 3 | The materials illustrated in the appendix to this chapter are offered as no more than an example . |
| 4 | If the telephone conversation amounts to no more than an inquiry or preliminary discussion , it may be that no contract is made then . |
| 5 | There we said that the foundationalist 's beliefs about his sensory states , to be infallible , would have to have vanishingly small content ; in fact , to amount to no more than an incomprehensible gesture . |
| 6 | The most systematic study of legacies sub modo , while drawing attention to the Scaevolan cases in which trusts are construed , points out that this amounted to no more than an isolated and sporadic tendency . |
| 7 | These adults never actually appear on the screen and their speech is represented as no more than an incoherent buzz of verbal static , because adults are irrelevant to the world of Charlie Brown , Lucy , Linus , Snoopy and Woodstock . |