Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Ekonomska politika ( 11 March 1985 ) , the creation of the self-management communities of interest has often amounted to no more than the conversion of a previous government bureau into a new organization . |
| 2 | We are kept reading by the promise of an original sin or trauma that will justify — either in psychological or moral terms — the very existence of the story , but stripped of the successive identities he has built up over the years , Philip 's father is revealed as no more than an insecure , over-imaginative little boy . |
| 3 | The established head taking up a keen interest in marketing may well be seen as no more than a leopard cynically changing spots to match the climate of LMS and the introduction of pupil driven funding . |
| 4 | Although at the time it was seen as no more than the correction of an anomaly , only at the Labour Party 's annual conference in 1979 was the formal position of the Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party brought into line with the de facto position by his being accorded the title of ‘ Leader of the Labour Party ’ . |
| 5 | Without warning , Weissman and his audience found themselves separated by no more than a cardboard partition from a noisy meeting of a local school maintenance workers ' union , voting not to end its strike . |
| 6 | First , Steffi admitted ‘ The women 's event does n't really start before the second week ’ after most of the top seeds had advanced for no more than the loss of a few games . |
| 7 | It may be concluded from this that prey size can be used as no more than an approximation to predator type , and size spectra are certainly not predator-specific . |
| 8 | The materials illustrated in the appendix to this chapter are offered as no more than an example . |
| 9 | Many thousands of stories , large and small , and even feature material are placed with no more than a press release in mail or some short telephone contact , and even PRO 's who work regularly with their own trade publications may , because of the distance between their offices and those of the publication , never have met the editors . |
| 10 | The shots sounded like no more than a bad cough . |
| 11 | Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards . |
| 12 | He would prefer to see Africa 's debt obligation reduced to no more than the $10 billion it is managing to pay each year . |
| 13 | The farmer was a remote and authoritarian figure and personal contact was often limited to no more than the weekly payment of wages . |
| 14 | These adults never actually appear on the screen and their speech is represented as no more than an incoherent buzz of verbal static , because adults are irrelevant to the world of Charlie Brown , Lucy , Linus , Snoopy and Woodstock . |
| 15 | If a senior officer were to be viewed as no more than a member of an amorphous managerial team , said Mr Roach , the public would be led to believe that any complaint against a policemen was merely being investigated by ‘ one of the boys . |
| 16 | If , by contrast , the company was viewed as no more than a contractual association between the members much like a partnership , it was difficult to explain why each shareholder should not be liable for the full extent of any debts , as was the case in a partnership . |
| 17 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 18 | Sartre ultimately chose to ignore the constructive Marxist elements in Nizan 's life and work which , from the vantage point of 1960 , were perceived as no more than a Stalinist mystification and selected instead as the model for a post-Stalinist epoch , the uncompromising rebellion of a young intellectual of the 1920s venting his spleen on the iniquities of bourgeois oppression at home and colonial oppression abroad . |
| 19 | ‘ Yet — with your Grace 's permission ? — if this eight hundred marks was paid over no more than a year and a half ago , surely it can not all have been used or turned into goods so soon , ’ he said . |