Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside his own domain ( the Ile-de-France ) the king often had no more than powers of general protection . |
| 2 | The desk was anonymous and modern , blockboard veneered with mahogany , the legs no more than sticks of black metal . |
| 3 | The schoolteacher realized that his guests were tongue-tied in this strange place and , after a few openings had brought no more than murmurs of self-conscious or self-absorbed politeness , he did what he had found best to do on such occasions . |
| 4 | Heartened by the thought that all the rumblings within her were no more than spasms of ill-digested curry , she walked out from the Khyber fort that was her home , and with my father beside her , tapped her chilblains to the pipes of the Black Watch and admired the wild Pathans cleaning their rifles high on the hillside . |
| 5 | All the anger she had ever felt seemed to shrink into no more than fits of petty temper in the face of what she was feeling now . |
| 6 | All right , it may be said , to say ‘ I know ’ and ‘ I remember ’ and ‘ I hope ’ is to do something ; but nevertheless there are some utterances which are no more than expressions of mental states , namely when the mental states in question are simply sensations , such as aches and pains . |
| 7 | Their compositions fall into two major groups : copper , usually with no more than traces of other elements ; and alloys , either tin-bronze or leaded tin-bronze . |