Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [art] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henceforth the local , stable community where relationships were both personal and persistent became no more than a rarity in the modern world . |
| 2 | But it soon became clear that Washington was prepared to promise no more than a continuing exchange of views " to bring our respective viewpoints as close as possible " . |
| 3 | In that situation X , being an unsecured creditor , is likely to obtain no more than a small percentage of the price he is owed . |
| 4 | Attlee during his Washington visit of 4 – 5 December 1950 had been able to elicit no more than a promise that Britain would be kept informed of any developments which might lead to the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the war Russia had felt able to commit no more than a quarter of her field army to the southern part of the empire , as she needed the other three-quarters on her western frontier to defuse possible threats from Austria , Prussia and Sweden . |
| 6 | In this instance it is wise to have no more than a 4-inch drop on the indicator and sit with your hand hovering over the rod . |