Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [det] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US . |
| 2 | Membership of a specific group was often the product of a boss — follower relationship with one of its leading members , and thus very large groups were in danger of becoming no more than a coalition of personal factions . |
| 3 | The residue of liberty just gets smaller and smaller , until eventually , in some areas , it is extinguished altogether , with freedom becoming no more than the power to do that which an official has decided for the time being not to prohibit . |
| 4 | A last uneasy look at the chief inspector told him his visitor was genuinely interested , paying no more than a routine call . |
| 5 | This is because it is essentially a desk exercise requiring no more than a summation of information provided against a standard requirement . |
| 6 | So Nicky Fairbairn , Jo Beltrami and Paddy Meehan travelled to Edinburgh , and to the court where Oscar Slater had been wrongly convicted nearly fifty years before , all of them knowing that when the charge was read and Meehan formally pleaded Not Guilty , he was speaking no less than the truth . |
| 7 | Then her innate honesty forced her to realise he was probably speaking no more than the truth , and she gave a single reluctant nod . |
| 8 | He would never be the luckless , dirty , shrivelled-looking man in the stocks — put there likely enough for stealing no more than an egg . |
| 9 | With as many flats as a Parisian tower block and the ‘ pits ’ affording no more than a shove out of the sand , it was 16 days before the old fort hove into view 338Km after Algiers had disappeared from the rear-view mirror . |
| 10 | Standing no more than a foot high , they seldom leave their subterranean homes , for exposure to sunlight will turn them to stone . |
| 11 | The position on partial demolition , however , remained uncertain after the House of Lords case , and by degrees various church bodies began to put forward proposals for partial demolition , in some cases leaving no more than a facade or church hall , arguing that , as part of the site was to remain in ecclesiastical use , no permission to demolish was required . |
| 12 | Rebecca took the Japanese-made VHF radio , weighing no more than a bag of sugar , on her summit assault . |
| 13 | However , the provisional Government interpreted the right of national self-determination as meaning no more than the abolition of discrimination and the establishment of legal equality ’ among the peoples of the former empire . |