Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] no [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CGT , for instance , has regarded collective bargaining as no more than a temporary measure of the balance of power between management and unions , enabling the union to obtain the best negotiating results for wage-earners at a given point in time ( Goetschy , 1983 ) . |
| 2 | In the darkness we passed through the defile of Gebel Silsila where the river narrows dramatically to a width of no more than a few yards . |
| 3 | I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend . |
| 4 | At the same time , the hectic expansion of war industries swelled the industrial proletariat by no less than a third , there was a massive influx of refugees from front-line areas , and the cities became increasingly overcrowded , insanitary and disease-ridden . |
| 5 | One view sees retirement as no more than a form of compulsory unemployment within an economy which can no longer offer full employment . |
| 6 | Except that there was no way Third World countries could develop that fast : there was room for no more than a handful of South Koreas or Singapores , ready to beat the West at its own game . |
| 7 | The expression on her face read my last remark as no more than a condescending gesture of patient sympathy such as she must have met many times before . |
| 8 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 9 | Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent . |
| 10 | But the villagers regarded the new name as no more than a foreigner 's eccentric fancy which they were under no obligation either to use or recognise . |
| 11 | They managed to part that night with no more than a friendly kiss , but the following evening when Mrs Wallington again went early to bed was more difficult . |
| 12 | Old Sprout , the greengrocer , banging the door behind him as he comes out of his shop , loosens half a card-load of snow , which skids off his roof and pancakes on the pavement , missing his head by no more than a foot . |
| 13 | Though he had been in the district for no more than a week , he felt he knew it well . |
| 14 | It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years . |
| 15 | My argument was that he might as well use pit-props for his fishing , for he could n't possibly gain any enjoyment from playing fish , or handling such a rod with no more than a 4lb line . |
| 16 | Even those specimens collected from deep water seem to accept captive life in no more than a couple of feet of water quite happily . |
| 17 | He whispered something but so close to my ear the sound was distorted and I said , suppressing my voice to no more than a breath because it can be so harsh , ‘ Say it again . |
| 18 | questions with a predetermined answer of no more than a few words |
| 19 | This type of constructed response item consists of a question with a predetermined answer of no more than a few words . |
| 20 | That was a crucial part of turning the Royal Family into no more than a diversion for the public . |
| 21 | He had misjudged the speed of his target by no more than a fraction . |