Example sentences of "[art] more than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The senior American , and the New Zealander , were right-wingers of a purity I 'd thought extinct , little imagining that the vogue for radical chic — which had been the orthodoxy of the day in Toronto — was now no more than the memory of an ebb tide . |
| 2 | However , the provisional Government interpreted the right of national self-determination as meaning no more than the abolition of discrimination and the establishment of legal equality ’ among the peoples of the former empire . |
| 3 | Although at the time it was seen as no more than the correction of an anomaly , only at the Labour Party 's annual conference in 1979 was the formal position of the Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party brought into line with the de facto position by his being accorded the title of ‘ Leader of the Labour Party ’ . |
| 4 | On the LME , however , it may mean no more than the matching of positions , since LME contracts are not " closed " , in the sense of being liquidated , until their prompt date . |
| 5 | At that time Sobstad were introducing the Genesis concept to the UK and David assured us that this hi-tech sail would be available to us as a one-design class for no more than the cost of our present Dacron sail . |
| 6 | — for no more than the cost of ordinary books DO YOU BUY BOOKS ? |
| 7 | Nicola 's husband looked up wearily , his voice no more than the rustle of dead leaves . |
| 8 | These optimistic perspectives were quickly abandoned by Khrushchev 's successors , and under Brezhnev it began to be claimed that the USSR had achieved no more than the construction of a ‘ developed socialist society ’ , a new and quite distinct stage of Soviet development whose further evolution into full communism would be a matter for the fairly distant future . |
| 9 | Later , I asked myself whether in my extremity I , the helpless , had been seeking , as the hymn said , the help of God , and that in the act of seeking it , I had been granted it ( he who seeks God , said Pascal , has already found him ) ; or whether this spontaneous welling-up of emotion from the depths of my being was no more than the expression of a statement to myself . |
| 10 | But the doctor discerned no more than the ghost of either in the Rector 's smile . |
| 11 | A Carolyn who led another life , with no more than the ghost of a thought that things could have been different . |
| 12 | If it were not to do this , it would be no more than the futility of changing or avoiding the subject . |
| 13 | — the heart is the first organ to develop in the embryo ; when we are no more than the size of a kidney bean , our heart is visible , pumping away ; |
| 14 | In these egalitarian times it would take no more than the price of an off-season 's weekend bed and breakfast and the permission of a landowner or two . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By now few proposals could be judged on their merits , only according to which national group put them forward ( or rather , each proposal was identified as if it were no more than the product of a national group ) . |
| 17 | First , Steffi admitted ‘ The women 's event does n't really start before the second week ’ after most of the top seeds had advanced for no more than the loss of a few games . |
| 18 | Cadfael felt it , but thought it no more than the tension of the sortes . |
| 19 | no more than the embodiment of administrative arrangements which would give order to a confused system and some of which had been recommended and accepted as desirable during the previous two decades . |
| 20 | In many cases , the employer 's " trade secrets " may be no more than the result of the application by an employee of his own skill and judgment , but if the employee was engaged specifically to produce that information then it can still amount to a trade secret . |
| 21 | abolished the power of local councils to shift the burden of taxation on to local business , for the first time limiting the overall rise in business rates to no more than the rate of inflation ; |
| 22 | I remind the House that traffic speeds in central London have fallen to 10 mph , which is no more than the speed of a horse and cart at the turn of the century . |
| 23 | It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday . |
| 24 | For him , the Gulf war is no more than the challenge of a criminal to society . |
| 25 | Her role as a simultaneous interpreter is a hyperbolic figuration of the Barthesian character who is no more than the point of intersection of a number of different public codes ( Barthes 1970b:74 ) . |
| 26 | Aye , until d'Arquebus knew bitterly — and until others recognized scornfully — the sham of his valour , which came not from Dorn at all , but was really no more than the flip-side of his former high-hab extravagance … |
| 27 | These words , therefore , seem to me to import no more than the satisfaction of the testator at the engagement as an accomplished fact . |
| 28 | Change in the interest charge reflects no more than the impact of the stronger dollar on our U S dollar interest costs . |
| 29 | Eliot , " the first , longest and best " classical detective story , Wilkie Collins ' The Moonstone ( Read it if you have n't done so. ) managed very well with no more than the theft of a diamond . |
| 30 | 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 . |