Example sentences of "[vb base] no more [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is called the recession and it has blighted the lives of thousands of people who want no more than to earn an honest living and take pride in bringing up their families . |
| 2 | In many respects cities do no more than reflect the wider processes that prevail within society as a whole . |
| 3 | To a degree this is true , but business relationships do no more than reflect the formality of relationships generally . |
| 4 | These words , however , as counsel for the respondent correctly pointed out , do no more than indicate the circumstances in which consent may be negatived . |
| 5 | You may also find icons which do no more than invoke an error message because the associated program or file has been erased from the harddisk . |
| 6 | Many of these insect-feeding birds have a line of bristles around their beaks which at one time were thought to channel weakly-flying insects into the open beak but now it seems more likely that they do no more than protect the birds ' eyes as they deliberately plunge through clouds of insects . |
| 7 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |