Example sentences of "[vb base] no more [conj] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | For here lay no more than a piece of meat , oblivious , inanimate , an object to be examined without reverence . |
| 4 | Now the friends form no more than a frieze , spread thin along the shore , like bread on a lake of butter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There 's something odd there , sir , but we 've no more than a whiff of what it was . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |