Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] no [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henceforth the local , stable community where relationships were both personal and persistent became no more than a rarity in the modern world . |
| 2 | But it soon became clear that Washington was prepared to promise no more than a continuing exchange of views " to bring our respective viewpoints as close as possible " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps this reflects no more than the elevation of masculinity that permeates the canteen culture of the station , but the view that nothing busy happens in the unit and that it is an ‘ easy turn ’ is a sad reflection on how the marginalization of policewomen 's duties has divorced some policemen from the reality of sex crimes . |
| 5 | For some this means no more than a trip to the supermarket and a loading-up of the metal basket ; for others it means being lost on a plain in Greece , in the dark , in snow , in the rain , and finding what you seek only by some rare trick such as barking like a dog . |
| 6 | In that situation X , being an unsecured creditor , is likely to obtain no more than a small percentage of the price he is owed . |
| 7 | Bernard took the matter of the offending questionnaire to the union forthwith : the local dispute quickly turned national : Bernard spoke to the press , rallied his colleagues ; but alas , all too many wanted no more than a quiet life : Bernard confided that sometimes he had to eat alone in the staff dining room . |
| 8 | Attlee during his Washington visit of 4 – 5 December 1950 had been able to elicit no more than a promise that Britain would be kept informed of any developments which might lead to the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 9 | At the beginning of the war Russia had felt able to commit no more than a quarter of her field army to the southern part of the empire , as she needed the other three-quarters on her western frontier to defuse possible threats from Austria , Prussia and Sweden . |
| 10 | The two brain regions are quite small — dissected out , each weighs no more than a couple of milligrams — and Andras invented a special plastic mould into which we could drop the brain , slice slabs out with a razor blade and then use a fine scalpel to cut round the regions , guiding the dissection under a microscope . |
| 11 | It is best to write no more than a bar of the leading voice before adding the consequent and assessing the result . |
| 12 | In this instance it is wise to have no more than a 4-inch drop on the indicator and sit with your hand hovering over the rod . |