Example sentences of "[art] [det] than [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The sentry is claimed to have replied : " Now do n't abaht , I 've got one up the spaht … " but rushed away to get the orderly corporal who , in turn , found the situation beyond his authority , and we were only released by no less than the duty officer .
2 Ruskin would surely have been surprised if he had been told that a time would come when railway stations , like lakes and mountains , would become a part of the imaginative life of men , and when the sounding express engine no less than the sounding cataract would rouse in them a noble delight .
3 Any non-party candidate will have a very small chance of being elected and if , surprisingly , he is elected , he will have no more than a minute chance of exercising significant influence in the House .
4 It was no more than a ticket booth .
5 Modern scientific man thinks that he is no more than a chance arrangement of dust and water , of molecules — though he may acknowledge that the atoms and molecules , indeed all life forms , are highly ordered and organized !
6 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 .
7 And although Cantona has played no more than a bit part following his half-time introduction , his new manager claimed he was well satisfied .
8 With the collapse of the Seamen 's United all thoughts of a national organisation became no more than a pipe dream .
9 So far , I have concentrated on some of the standard aspects of prison life and routine — in some ways no more than a mirror image of other large institutions .
10 Many thousands of stories , large and small , and even feature material are placed with no more than a press release in mail or some short telephone contact , and even PRO 's who work regularly with their own trade publications may , because of the distance between their offices and those of the publication , never have met the editors .
11 He was searching for ‘ his class ’ , which he never found , and talked about ‘ the laboratory ’ , which was no more than a back kitchen with a bunsen burner and running water .
12 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 .
13 It was no more than a flip ad-lib .
14 Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him .
15 But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect .
16 Taxation is no more than a quantification machinery by means of which the recoverable amount of costs , disbursements , expenses , etc. is ascertained .
17 No more than a kindergarten poster painting of a turnip with a moon-mouth smile .
18 Nevertheless , a foot sweep does require a lot of power to prevent it from degenerating into no more than a shin attack .
19 What is no more than a side effect of the operation of preferential voting is misrepresented by the propagandists as the consequence of purposeful calculation .
20 Other memories are no more than a nutshell description , a fleeting image , perhaps of an eccentricity .
21 The Land Rover had originally been meant to be no more than a safety net .
22 ‘ Labour 's supposed conversion to multilateralism is no more than a confidence trick to try to make Labour electable .
23 In one sense , offering insurance in this way may be no more than a marketing device and the whole deal is a matter for the commercial judgement of the firm involved — and their clients .
24 Reginald de Grey reckoned every Welshman a thief and an outlaw , and had his borders patrolled as though against the entire army of France , in great measure creating the animosity and disorder he saw everywhere ; and this company might be no more than a routine patrol meant to impress and intimidate on his usual terms .
25 Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting .
26 A last uneasy look at the chief inspector told him his visitor was genuinely interested , paying no more than a routine call .
27 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 .
28 Then she skirted the table , gripped her stepmother by the shoulders , and began to shake her as if she was no more than a rag doll .
29 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 .
30 All the equipment here could be explained away ; this was no more than a training ground for those interested in self-defence , martial arts and war games .
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