Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 You need to select flat water conditions with no more than a Force 3 otherwise you will be concentrating too hard on staying upright rather than thinking about the exercises .
32 Anna stood up facing him , with no more than a hand 's breadth between them .
33 ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . )
34 However , as this is not a treatise on the Venetian tradition , we will leave the subject here , with no more than a reminder of its possibilities .
35 That was a crucial part of turning the Royal Family into no more than a diversion for the public .
36 Nevertheless , a foot sweep does require a lot of power to prevent it from degenerating into no more than a shin attack .
37 Even those specimens collected from deep water seem to accept captive life in no more than a couple of feet of water quite happily .
38 Losers £100 million fortunes just dribbled away to nothing in no more than a couple of years
39 ‘ Yet — with your Grace 's permission ? — if this eight hundred marks was paid over no more than a year and a half ago , surely it can not all have been used or turned into goods so soon , ’ he said .
40 This , he said , could not be characterised as having breached the duty of good faith which amounted to no more than a principle of fair and honourable dealing .
41 170 it was held that the word ‘ convicted ’ in sections 9 and 12 of the Coinage Offences Act 1861 ( 24 & 25 Vict. c. 99 ) referred to no more than a finding of guilt .
42 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 .
43 But he grew rich on no more than a promise .
44 Looking backwards , the ways of the men and women of the countryside in the mid-nineteenth century seem fixed in an ancient tradition changing , if at all , at no more than a snail 's pace .
45 They slip and slide against each other — somewhat ponderously , since they proceed at no more than a foot a year and sometimes a great deal less .
46 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 .
47 And within was empty darkness , fenced off by no more than a ridge of soil .
48 He had misjudged the speed of his target by no more than a fraction .
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