Example sentences of "[art] more than the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why should I want someone like you , whose squalid dreams of passion can encompass no more than the petty attentions of a man like Jones ? |
| 2 | If we are going to use standard units then we need to structure the demand situation in such a way that the required output needs no more than the standard units . |
| 3 | The libertarian interpretation rejects the notion that the revolutionaries represented no more than the extravagant daydreams of isolated malcontents . |
| 4 | On occasion , zones will be requested to submit notional breakdowns on their expenditure for the forthcoming year , but such submissions are often no more than the haziest guides to real expenditure . |
| 5 | It is a substantial prop but supports no more than the traditional safeguards for the protection of species and against cruelty and abuse . |
| 6 | The natural resources of Florence were no more than the four elements available to all simple communities since antiquity : earth , air , water and fire . |
| 7 | There would have been no more than the statutory redundancies . |
| 8 | The additional element in sexual assault might be no more than the particular circumstances . |
| 9 | At home they propagate a mythological aura about their secret sales expertise , often no more than the latest gimmicks applied to age-old techniques . |
| 10 | Others interested in this Ocean may have already found their choicest figures : the one that brought the Pacific 's surge so very much alive for me — when hitherto it had been no more than the muffled beatings of a warm , blue and very distant sea — related to an event seven miles above the surface of the earth , some time during a night in 1984 . |