Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [det] than the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the doctor discerned no more than the ghost of either in the Rector 's smile . |
| 2 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 3 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 4 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 5 | The residue of liberty just gets smaller and smaller , until eventually , in some areas , it is extinguished altogether , with freedom becoming no more than the power to do that which an official has decided for the time being not to prohibit . |
| 6 | Who , some calculate , will each on average receive no more than the equivalent of £500 for loss of family , loss of earnings and permanent physical damage . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's perfect , ’ the woman had said ; and for once a shop assistant had said no more than the truth . |
| 8 | Dunbar had said no more than the truth , the archers could do it all . |
| 9 | Public authorities are creatures of statute and can do no more than the statute permits them to do . |
| 10 | Her voice faded as her body weakened and drooped , so that she seemed no more than the shadow of the eagle she must once have been , and a shadow that was losing itself in the darkness of a cage . |
| 11 | Although these findings were considered in the context of differential hemispheric activation , they might more parsimoniously be thought to reflect no more than the fact that people wish to be able to look at a blackboard in the middle of the room . |
| 12 | it costs no more than the news to enter . |
| 13 | Although he could see no more than the man 's black outline , he sensed it was a rival he was moving towards , one who saw himself as having rights in the moor , even rights of possession over it . |
| 14 | ‘ Show me , ’ whispered Wynne-Jones , but when he looked through the mask he could see no more than the darkness . |
| 15 | Having raised expectations , he went on to limit that help to just 100,000 people ; and of those 100,000 , 60,000 were offered no more than the chance to work on a community scheme for next to nothing . |
| 16 | That looks incompatible with gaucherie , and perhaps is , but it represents no more than the incompatibilities that individuals daily enact in their own lives . |
| 17 | By contrast , even those who have spent all of their working lives with Leyland in the UK are being given no more than the minimum provided by the state . |
| 18 | The phrase ‘ rehabilitation ’ denotes no more than the practice of helping individuals to function as well as they can in all areas of their daily life or , more simply , to be happier and more fulfilled people . |
| 19 | For every evening wasted in the contemplation of Tubular Bells we spent no more than the time it takes to finish a vodka-and-lime soaking up Sugar Baby Love by the Rubettes . |
| 20 | The important difference between habituation and conditioning when it comes to context specificity appears to be that the latter involves the recall of associative information whereas habituation requires no more than the recognition of the stimulus as being familiar . |
| 21 | Eyes ‘ moving no more than the eyes of a corpse … follow me like a pair of jailers … |
| 22 | Here , the Catholic Church authorities had decided to retain no more than the spire and the lady chapel , demolishing the whole body of the church . |
| 23 | Monza was to be decisive for his championship , and Ken Tyrrell has written that it was Jackie 's finest race , not least because he knew he led the championship and because , having already decided to retire , he needed to do no more than the minimum , particularly since he was starting only from sixth place on the grid . |
| 24 | We know no more than the narrator , within whose obsessively observant mind we wander , searching , like him , for some sure knowledge . |
| 25 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published , they will show you know no more than the rest " — a sentiment which T. R. Glover rather pithily describes as suggesting science declining into profession . |
| 26 | So Nicky Fairbairn , Jo Beltrami and Paddy Meehan travelled to Edinburgh , and to the court where Oscar Slater had been wrongly convicted nearly fifty years before , all of them knowing that when the charge was read and Meehan formally pleaded Not Guilty , he was speaking no less than the truth . |
| 27 | Then her innate honesty forced her to realise he was probably speaking no more than the truth , and she gave a single reluctant nod . |
| 28 | In these egalitarian times it would take no more than the price of an off-season 's weekend bed and breakfast and the permission of a landowner or two . |
| 29 | In the 1870s the French conceived extravagant plans which included no less than the conquest of the Sahara , an impractical design never brought to fruition . |
| 30 | So far Marian had spoken no more than the truth but the sort of truth children speak and understand for what it is — the letter of truth but not the spirit . |