Example sentences of "[verb] [art] more [subord] [art] [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 | But the doctor discerned no more than the ghost of either in the Rector 's smile . |
| 4 | The left-hand foliage pendant which once hung above the west door of the King 's Drawing Room bore the brunt of the flames and only two tiny fragments of the original 7ft drop survive ; a couple of limewood crocus heads no more than an inch and a half across . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is best to write no more than a bar of the leading voice before adding the consequent and assessing the result . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The bomb weighed no more than a pound and a man could carry up to thirty of them . |
| 11 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 12 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 13 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Its study is therefore in its infancy , and the cases presented above provide no more than a glimpse of its potential interest . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's perfect , ’ the woman had said ; and for once a shop assistant had said no more than the truth . |
| 22 | Dunbar had said no more than the truth , the archers could do it all . |
| 23 | Public authorities are creatures of statute and can do no more than the statute permits them to do . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He reached for Freddy , and with what seemed no more than a flick of his wrist pitched him across the foyer . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | it costs no more than the news to enter . |
| 30 | 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 . |