Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] more [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 2 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 3 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's perfect , ’ the woman had said ; and for once a shop assistant had said no more than the truth . |
| 5 | Dunbar had said no more than the truth , the archers could do it all . |
| 6 | But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect . |
| 7 | Having raised expectations , he went on to limit that help to just 100,000 people ; and of those 100,000 , 60,000 were offered no more than the chance to work on a community scheme for next to nothing . |
| 8 | By contrast , even those who have spent all of their working lives with Leyland in the UK are being given no more than the minimum provided by the state . |
| 9 | The doctor had injected no more than a quarter of the syringe when Michael suddenly went rigid . |
| 10 | Latterly , however , it had become no more than a framework for the recording of successes , with little attention being paid to problems such as the intensification of production or the improvement of food supplies . |
| 11 | With some reason did another Frenchman remark at this time that Britain had become no more than a colony of the American film industry . |
| 12 | And although Cantona has played no more than a bit part following his half-time introduction , his new manager claimed he was well satisfied . |
| 13 | It left very few records and , even at its height , seems to have employed no more than a handful of men . |
| 14 | So far Marian had spoken no more than the truth but the sort of truth children speak and understand for what it is — the letter of truth but not the spirit . |
| 15 | That she appeared to be having a marvellous time in Jamaica and was being hopelessly indulged by Dunbar had elicited no more than a shrug of Harry 's shoulders and a vague comment about his being delighted she was having such a good time . |
| 16 | He deduced that the nomadic Hebrews had their origins there and had brought no more than a handful of the place names with them when they eventually settled in Palestine . |
| 17 | And as far as Greg could judge there were a great many writers who had found a place in the book who were quite as obscure or more so — poets whose flame had died with the end of the war , one-off playwrights whose experimental verse dramas had caused no more than a ripple of interest even in their own time . |
| 18 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 19 | These optimistic perspectives were quickly abandoned by Khrushchev 's successors , and under Brezhnev it began to be claimed that the USSR had achieved no more than the construction of a ‘ developed socialist society ’ , a new and quite distinct stage of Soviet development whose further evolution into full communism would be a matter for the fairly distant future . |