Example sentences of "[pers pn] [art] more [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It might benefit him the more if the money were to be withheld until he is older .
2 He liked to live in company with another ; Bo-Bo had only negative virtues but , he had to admit , he would be lonely when she died , and the doctors gave her no more than a year .
3 His response to a Christian who might approach him with the request to convert to Hinduism would be to urge him to try to be a good Christian since the Gītā could offer him no more than the Bible .
4 Cadfael felt it , but thought it no more than the tension of the sortes .
5 It left us no more than a 7-iron into the green .
6 I think Cowslip 's told us no more than the truth .
7 The same problem of interpretation arises from any use of manorial records , probably the best available documentary source ; these can tell us no more than the number of holdings which fell vacant on particular estates and throw no light on mortality among landless persons .
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