Example sentences of "[to-vb] no [adj] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | These words , therefore , seem to me to import no more than the satisfaction of the testator at the engagement as an accomplished fact . |