Example sentences of "[vb base] no more than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its study is therefore in its infancy , and the cases presented above provide no more than a glimpse of its potential interest . |
| 2 | Who , some calculate , will each on average receive no more than the equivalent of £500 for loss of family , loss of earnings and permanent physical damage . |
| 3 | Over the years the Ladies ' Minutes , whilst complete , give no more than a glimpse of the main Club 's activity , but it can be deduced that clubhouse alterations were made in 1914 and again in 1920 at which period the course was also altered . |
| 4 | For here lay no more than a piece of meat , oblivious , inanimate , an object to be examined without reverence . |
| 5 | We know no more than the narrator , within whose obsessively observant mind we wander , searching , like him , for some sure knowledge . |
| 6 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published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 . |
| 7 | Now the friends form no more than a frieze , spread thin along the shore , like bread on a lake of butter . |
| 8 | Moreover , statistics collected by the Countryside Commission suggest that the overwhelming majority of visitors to the countryside venture no more than a couple of hundred yards from their car . |
| 9 | There 's something odd there , sir , but we 've no more than a whiff of what it was . |
| 10 | Gibson 's ( 1969 ) account of these effects suggests that discrimination training may not be necessary but the same conclusion can be derived from more prosaic considerations — it might be argued , for instance , that the results described so far reflect no more than a disruption in control subjects confronted by novel stimuli at the start of the test discrimination . |
| 11 | Some broken bones have no more than a hairline crack in them , but this is enough to cause your withdrawal from competition , regardless of the stage you are at . |