Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] more [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is best to write no more than a bar of the leading voice before adding the consequent and assessing the result . |
| 2 | But when your father has been murdered the day you make only the fourth televised maximum break , when you win your first major title and receive a hero 's reception on returning to your native land , even the prospect of meeting Hendry is going to cause no more than a flutter of the eyelid . |
| 3 | Although these findings were considered in the context of differential hemispheric activation , they might more parsimoniously be thought to reflect no more than the fact that people wish to be able to look at a blackboard in the middle of the room . |
| 4 | He was able to see no more because a draught caused by the opening of his door blew out the candle she was holding . |
| 5 | Here , the Catholic Church authorities had decided to retain no more than the spire and the lady chapel , demolishing the whole body of the church . |
| 6 | Monza was to be decisive for his championship , and Ken Tyrrell has written that it was Jackie 's finest race , not least because he knew he led the championship and because , having already decided to retire , he needed to do no more than the minimum , particularly since he was starting only from sixth place on the grid . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Those who still have homes have to take no more than a suitcase each . |
| 11 | These words , therefore , seem to me to import no more than the satisfaction of the testator at the engagement as an accomplished fact . |
| 12 | 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 . |