Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [det] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had about a pound on him , in small change , which would buy no more than a chocolate bar and a couple of packets of crisps . |
| 2 | The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US . |
| 3 | It may need no more than a discussion session , or a change of emphasis introduced at an appropriate point to allow this to be covered . |
| 4 | It is best to write no more than a bar of the leading voice before adding the consequent and assessing the result . |
| 5 | And he was there , making the impossible leap from the ground to the moving platform , ducking beneath the barrel of the cannon , waving his chainsword in circles as if it weighed no more than a walking stick . |
| 6 | Before she had time to move she felt his arms around her , scooping her bodily from the fountain as if she weighed no more than a feather . |
| 7 | She was lifted against his bare chest as if she weighed no more than a feather , the shock of his warm skin and the slight roughness of short , curling hair against her palms rendering her abruptly speechless . |
| 8 | The bomb weighed no more than a pound and a man could carry up to thirty of them . |
| 9 | ‘ When a mathematician proves some proposition you had not known , he accomplishes no more than a man who discloses the contents of a casket … by opening it up . ’ |
| 10 | And , as we shall see , one who has mere possession at the date of the conversion can generally sue , and so can one who has no more than a right to possess . |
| 11 | If a tenant takes only an upper floor of a building and has no more than a right to use the entrance hall for the purposes of approaching the property demised he must stipulate for the right to put a nameplate outside the property ( other than that part demised to him ) if he desires this convenience ( Berry ( Frederick ) Ltd v Royal Bank of Scotland [ 1949 ] 1 KB 619 per Lord Goddard CJ at 621 ) . |
| 12 | Its study is therefore in its infancy , and the cases presented above provide no more than a glimpse of its potential interest . |
| 13 | Membership of a specific group was often the product of a boss — follower relationship with one of its leading members , and thus very large groups were in danger of becoming no more than a coalition of personal factions . |
| 14 | Perhaps Somalia has more in common with Chad , another desert full of warlords , where the toppling of one gang by another caused no more than a bit of looting last month . |
| 15 | But when your father has been murdered the day you make only the fourth televised maximum break , when you win your first major title and receive a hero 's reception on returning to your native land , even the prospect of meeting Hendry is going to cause no more than a flutter of the eyelid . |
| 16 | He reached for Freddy , and with what seemed no more than a flick of his wrist pitched him across the foyer . |
| 17 | Woodland Hills , California-based American Mobile Systems Inc reports that it has had an offer from LIN Broadcasting Corp 's Transit Communications unit to buy not less than 8.75m newly issued American Mobile shares for $8.50 each ; Fleet Call Inc has currently bought 714,286 shares of its common for $5m as part of a previously announced agreement for Fleet call to buy no less than a majority of American Mobile 's shares at $7 each ; the new offer assumes that the Fleet Call deal will be completed as planned . |
| 18 | A last uneasy look at the chief inspector told him his visitor was genuinely interested , paying no more than a routine call . |
| 19 | But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect . |
| 20 | Over the years the Ladies ' Minutes , whilst complete , give no more than a glimpse of the main Club 's activity , but it can be deduced that clubhouse alterations were made in 1914 and again in 1920 at which period the course was also altered . |
| 21 | None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) . |
| 22 | With the collapse of the Seamen 's United all thoughts of a national organisation became no more than a pipe dream . |
| 23 | Henceforth the local , stable community where relationships were both personal and persistent became no more than a rarity in the modern world . |
| 24 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 25 | And old man Verne-Smith and his wife , he knew , lived no more than a mile away , but them he avoided out of simple antipathy . |
| 26 | For here lay no more than a piece of meat , oblivious , inanimate , an object to be examined without reverence . |
| 27 | Firstly , it represents no more than a proposal for reform of the internal structure of the public company and not an accurate description of how the board at present functions in such a company . |
| 28 | Against this background the terms of settlement of the 1911 strike indicated no more than a truce in the battle for the control of the supply of labour in the industry . |
| 29 | A single township would contain no more than a fraction of the estates of a nobleman or other great landowner . |
| 30 | It need contain no more than a sideboard , table and chairs and can be decorated in its own individual way . |