Example sentences of "[to-vb] no more than a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Those who still have homes have to take no more than a suitcase each . |
| 6 | 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 . |