Example sentences of "[vb base] no more [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | That 's asking an awful lot of people who seek no more than a relaxing pint or two , or more especially when the Bishop pulls the first pint of the day . |
2 | Offending policemen frequently receive no more than a dishonourable discharge , and may resume killing in plain clothes , Mr Santos said , while some adolescents — who under Brazilian law are not criminally responsible - are also employed to kill other children . |
3 | The owner is company director Paul Scott , who says the giant painting in his entrance hall cost no more than a personalised number plate . |
4 | This allowed the company to crow about the new models that cost no more than the old — a favourite Ford device but by no means exclusive to the blue oval badge . |
5 | They themselves face no more than a trifling penalty if caught . |
6 | Industry , strictly defined , can be regarded as having established itself only where production so exceeded local demand as to be aimed at a wider market , for a trade might flourish and yet remain no more than a subsidiary activity , like the leather trades of the Weald of Sussex . |
7 | Then we get no more until the planned development of more or less large estates in the late eighteenth-century towns — notably , of course , the spas , but also in such unlikely places as Birmingham and ( early in the nineteenth century ) Ashton-under-Lyne . |
8 | By really understanding our Buyers ' needs we cut out time wasting and abortive visits and ensure you pay no more than the correct price in this mixed market . |
9 | A busy place at which most tourists cast no more than a cursory glance and pass on . |
10 | However , of themselves , they offer no more than a functional approach to assessment , and therefore must be organized into a framework which is based on the principles defined above . |
11 | My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed . |
12 | According to Engels , two-thirds of its working people possess no more than a single room per family , and Roberts 's figures are even more specific : 929 families have only one room , 623 only one bed . |