Example sentences of "[vb base] no more [conj] [vb base] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many respects cities do no more than reflect the wider processes that prevail within society as a whole . |
| 2 | To a degree this is true , but business relationships do no more than reflect the formality of relationships generally . |
| 3 | These words , however , as counsel for the respondent correctly pointed out , do no more than indicate the circumstances in which consent may be negatived . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |