Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [det] than the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Aye , until d'Arquebus knew bitterly — and until others recognized scornfully — the sham of his valour , which came not from Dorn at all , but was really no more than the flip-side of his former high-hab extravagance …
2 The senior American , and the New Zealander , were right-wingers of a purity I 'd thought extinct , little imagining that the vogue for radical chic — which had been the orthodoxy of the day in Toronto — was now no more than the memory of an ebb tide .
3 The simple realism of any characters in the fabliaux is very limited : often no more than the characters being given recognizable and common social functions .
4 The net tangible assets of the Business are at the date of this Agreement and will pending Completion be no less than at the Balance Sheet Date and the profits of the Business from the Balance Sheet Date to the date of this Agreement and pending Completion are and will be proportionately no less than the profits for the previous financial year .
5 There is nothing penal about Augusta 's design — there is no thick rough off the edge of the fairways or around the fringes of the greens , the bunkering is minimal , the fairways generous , and although there is a fair sprinkling of water hazards , it is certainly no more than the players come across practically every week on the Tour .
6 The ‘ public definition of an event ’ is therefore no more than the outcome of a struggle to control the ‘ flow of information to the public about such an event ’ and these struggles are themselves part of politics .
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