Example sentences of "[verb] no more [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the most significant unions could recruit no more than a small fraction of the workers in their industry . |
| 2 | His violence towards them might even be deemed no more than a Satanic desire to get them used to the notion of reigning in Hell rather than serving in Heaven . |
| 3 | If we are going to use standard units then we need to structure the demand situation in such a way that the required output needs no more than the standard units . |
| 4 | The very circumstance , however , which made the public schools a perfect vehicle for propaganda — their isolation , through the boarding system , from the outside world and the idiosyncratic influence of families — ensured that Dr Arnold , in his crusade for the personal salvation of his charges , could enjoy no more than a limited success . |
| 5 | In that situation X , being an unsecured creditor , is likely to obtain no more than a small percentage of the price he is owed . |
| 6 | He has no more than a 5050 chance . ’ |
| 7 | Left to their own devices , most roses tend to develop new growth into which they direct their sap and energy , bear bloom , and which then — as it becomes old and tired — gradually either becomes starved , by-passed , neglected and finally aborted as the plant constantly turns its attention to new growth , or it develops a barky exterior layer as it settles down to becoming no more than a main road communicating between the raw material goods received from the warehouse in the soil and the production factory upstairs — quite often , a very long way upstairs . |
| 8 | There is a very real danger that the slogan ‘ Sport for All ’ is becoming no more than an idle cliche . |
| 9 | I ca n't X-ray it , of course , but I 'm pretty sure you 've suffered no more than a bad concussion . |
| 10 | That 's asking an awful lot of people who seek no more than a relaxing pint or two , or more especially when the Bishop pulls the first pint of the day . |
| 11 | We must accept that the bogus traveller — that is the best title to give to such a person — is seeking no more than a better life . |
| 12 | Offending policemen frequently receive no more than a dishonourable discharge , and may resume killing in plain clothes , Mr Santos said , while some adolescents — who under Brazilian law are not criminally responsible - are also employed to kill other children . |
| 13 | The robots were programmed to simulate the hand movements of Yamaha 's most experienced sprayer , so the guitars receive no more and no less paint than they require . |
| 14 | The owner is company director Paul Scott , who says the giant painting in his entrance hall cost no more than a personalised number plate . |
| 15 | This allowed the company to crow about the new models that cost no more than the old — a favourite Ford device but by no means exclusive to the blue oval badge . |
| 16 | Societies of boys were what the public schools essentially remained , with the masters forming no more than a thin crust of adult authority . |
| 17 | Although her brother , Bert , was now employed by a local fisherman , Arnold Spence , and could do no more than a few day 's work at Four Winds now and then , nevertheless her new arrangements left Harriet free to work outside herself and this regular exercise had a calming effect , releasing her from a great deal of inner tension . |
| 18 | We know of one prolific kite-maker , whose kites are marketed everywhere , who uses no more than a sharp knife of the ‘ snap-off ’ type to cut dozens of panels in a laminated pack around a metal template . |
| 19 | The idea of regional or republican cost-accounting received no more than a cautious welcome in the resolution on national relations that was adopted at the conference ; the resolution did however speak of the ‘ further development ’ of the federation , involving the transfer of greater powers to the local level and to the union republics in particular . |
| 20 | Before World War II , as Drucker relates , ‘ all the books on management filled no more than a modest shelf ’ . |
| 21 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
| 22 | At first , the difficulty he had in opening the door of his room seemed no more than an irritating trifle . |
| 23 | The device which I call a Wurly costs no more than a standard pump to run . |
| 24 | Hewlett Packard has launched the LaserJet 4 , a 600 dots per inch network printer which sets new standards for print quality and ease of use , and yet costs no more than a current LaserJet 3 . |
| 25 | Yet Gemma had shown no more than a polite interest in Almsmead while Linnet , who was very dear but not Gemma , after all , had positively thrown herself into all the excitements of housebuilding and furnishing , taking to Far Flatley as if she had been born there . |
| 26 | They themselves face no more than a trifling penalty if caught . |
| 27 | Surely , to apply the label ‘ manslaughter ’ to the conduct of a person who envisaged no more than a common assault , e. g. by a single punch , is both disproportionate and unfair . |
| 28 | Loverboy tries hard to be hilarious , but raises no more than a few laughs . |
| 29 | I knew Malpass would have had no more than a fleeting glimpse of them , but just to be sure , I went behind the bar and found an empty crisp box . |
| 30 | But to assert that is by definition to assert no more than a certain independent conditional-roughly , that since the circumstance existed , even if most other things had been different , the effect would still have occurred . |