Example sentences of "[verb] no more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | A last uneasy look at the chief inspector told him his visitor was genuinely interested , paying no more than a routine call . |
| 18 | But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | With the collapse of the Seamen 's United all thoughts of a national organisation became no more than a pipe dream . |
| 22 | Henceforth the local , stable community where relationships were both personal and persistent became no more than a rarity in the modern world . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For here lay no more than a piece of meat , oblivious , inanimate , an object to be examined without reverence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A single township would contain no more than a fraction of the estates of a nobleman or other great landowner . |
| 29 | It need contain no more than a sideboard , table and chairs and can be decorated in its own individual way . |
| 30 | The doctor had injected no more than a quarter of the syringe when Michael suddenly went rigid . |