Example sentences of "[verb] no more than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I myself would claim no more than the natural store of a questioning mind . ’ |
| 5 | We must learn to hold ourselves and move with an economy of effort , using no more than the appropriate amount of energy for any activity . |
| 6 | Man is capable of a measure of creativity and mutual co-operation of which history has witnessed no more than the faintest inkling . |
| 7 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 8 | Mark you , I said as she was too big , but they said as it could just be the water , as they could n't hear no more than the one heart . |
| 9 | By really understanding our Buyers ' needs we cut out time wasting and abortive visits and ensure you pay no more than the correct price in this mixed market . |
| 10 | However much he might desire her , she would have no more than the allotted space in his life . |
| 11 | However , my predecessor , Bishop John Bickersteth , who for many years had been an advocate for issues of conservation , quite rightly protested that the Archbishop was saying no more than the biblical tradition states ! |
| 12 | The libertarian interpretation rejects the notion that the revolutionaries represented no more than the extravagant daydreams of isolated malcontents . |
| 13 | All the platinum ever mined would fill no more than the average living room . |
| 14 | Although she told me she was experiencing a certain amount of discomfort due to the condition of her appendix , and although she was not really looking forward to surgery and to the anaesthetic , none the less Kirsty seemed to have no more than the expected apprehension which would have been felt by anyone . |
| 15 | ‘ Why should I want someone like you , whose squalid dreams of passion can encompass no more than the petty attentions of a man like Jones ? |
| 16 | My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed . |
| 17 | It is a substantial prop but supports no more than the traditional safeguards for the protection of species and against cruelty and abuse . |