Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Public authorities are creatures of statute and can do no more than the statute permits them to do . |
| 4 | Although he could see no more than the man 's black outline , he sensed it was a rival he was moving towards , one who saw himself as having rights in the moor , even rights of possession over it . |
| 5 | ‘ Show me , ’ whispered Wynne-Jones , but when he looked through the mask he could see no more than the darkness . |
| 6 | First customer deliveries should begin no later than the middle of November , according to Univel 's marketing VP Arun Taneja . |
| 7 | Begging your pardon , Sir , but some of those alleged artists that get feted on BBC Two could paint no better than a monkey in the zoo . |
| 8 | A single township would contain no more than a fraction of the estates of a nobleman or other great landowner . |
| 9 | It need contain no more than a sideboard , table and chairs and can be decorated in its own individual way . |
| 10 | But such theories are parasitic on an implicit understanding that law is a type of instrument adapted to specific important purposes , and such theories are of little guidance in thinking through the role of international law in controlling force for they can suggest no more than a mimicking of the institutions of municipal law without regard to the purposes of having such or similar institutions in the international context . |
| 11 | A robot , with no matter how powerful an artificial intelligence , would perform no better than a person . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On account of the shelling , motor transport could approach no closer than a cross-roads nicknamed ‘ Le Tourniquet ’ at the end of the Voie Sacrée . |
| 15 | Again Harry could manage no more than a whisper . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well , nowadays you could get no closer than the wire cage around the perimeter , thanks to the hippies or the busloads of Americans or druids maybe , who knew ? |
| 18 | One could fly no higher than the signal book that young Lieutenant Pasco used at Trafalgar to send up the Immortal Signal . |
| 19 | For one of them the reason may lie no deeper than an ignorance of who God is , with all his Father 's love as the Bible and Jesus reveal him . |