Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] no more [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 2 | ‘ When I said that this was necessary to allow us to cross the Great Sea , ’ Alexei said , ‘ I spoke no more than the truth . |
| 3 | My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed . |
| 4 | Before she had time to move she felt his arms around her , scooping her bodily from the fountain as if she weighed no more than a feather . |
| 5 | She was lifted against his bare chest as if she weighed no more than a feather , the shock of his warm skin and the slight roughness of short , curling hair against her palms rendering her abruptly speechless . |
| 6 | Her voice faded as her body weakened and drooped , so that she seemed no more than the shadow of the eagle she must once have been , and a shadow that was losing itself in the darkness of a cage . |
| 7 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published , they will show you know no more than the rest " — a sentiment which T. R. Glover rather pithily describes as suggesting science declining into profession . |
| 8 | By really understanding our Buyers ' needs we cut out time wasting and abortive visits and ensure you pay no more than the correct price in this mixed market . |
| 9 | She lay down again and resolutely set her mind on sleep , with such good effect that she knew no more until a hand on her shoulder woke her . |
| 10 | For every evening wasted in the contemplation of Tubular Bells we spent no more than the time it takes to finish a vodka-and-lime soaking up Sugar Baby Love by the Rubettes . |
| 11 | We know no more than the narrator , within whose obsessively observant mind we wander , searching , like him , for some sure knowledge . |
| 12 | Then we get no more until the planned development of more or less large estates in the late eighteenth-century towns — notably , of course , the spas , but also in such unlikely places as Birmingham and ( early in the nineteenth century ) Ashton-under-Lyne . |
| 13 | There 's something odd there , sir , but we 've no more than a whiff of what it was . |
| 14 | However , of themselves , they offer no more than a functional approach to assessment , and therefore must be organized into a framework which is based on the principles defined above . |
| 15 | The auditors had carried out a specific investigation of the Gimco bills and with regard to recoverability , they had no more than an assurance from Gimco , an Abu Dhabi entity , that the bills would be honoured ‘ within three to four months or earlier when able ’ and an unsupported statement by G that he believed Gimco would pay . |
| 16 | Thus crime statistics are produced by the police and the courts and they represent no more than the opinions of the individuals involved . |
| 17 | They ignored each other in death , though sometimes they crouched no more than an arm 's reach away from each other , even touching as they slipped on the ice . |
| 18 | Firstly , it represents no more than a proposal for reform of the internal structure of the public company and not an accurate description of how the board at present functions in such a company . |
| 19 | That looks incompatible with gaucherie , and perhaps is , but it represents no more than the incompatibilities that individuals daily enact in their own lives . |
| 20 | Volvo 's two-litre B200 engine had always been smoother than the bigger-bore 2.3 , but it made no more than an adequate job of hauling the corpulent 940 . |
| 21 | And he was there , making the impossible leap from the ground to the moving platform , ducking beneath the barrel of the cannon , waving his chainsword in circles as if it weighed no more than a walking stick . |
| 22 | He has no more than a 5050 chance . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ When a mathematician proves some proposition you had not known , he accomplishes no more than a man who discloses the contents of a casket … by opening it up . ’ |
| 24 | it costs no more than the news to enter . |
| 25 | This finding is open to the criticism that it reflects no more than a difference between the two phenomena in their sensitivity — that the procedure in question disrupts some process common to both phenomena and that the latent inhibition procedure provides a more sensitive measure of this disruption than does the habituation procedure . |
| 26 | It seems no more than a charming anecdote , but when Professor Davie cites Bunting 's tale in Under Briggflatts , his history of British poetry since 1960 , he calls the incident ‘ challenging ’ . |
| 27 | Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface . |
| 28 | It took no more than a year before exhibitions of the works that he had brought out of Russia ( these being just part of what he had owned before leaving his best works to the Russian people ) began their triumphant tour of the prestigious galleries of Europe , America and Canada . |
| 29 | It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday . |
| 30 | It had no more than a skeletal structure and embraced liberals as well as socialists . |