Example sentences of "have [verb] no more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although Cantona has played no more than a bit part following his half-time introduction , his new manager claimed he was well satisfied . |
| 2 | A grand presidential title , a large company car and expensive luxury office bring little credit to a status-conscious executive who has achieved no more than a political victory in the rat-race . |
| 3 | one would expect a large variation in the fluency with which teachers can instruct in sign language ; many would have had no more than a relatively short course . |
| 4 | I knew Malpass would have had no more than a fleeting glimpse of them , but just to be sure , I went behind the bar and found an empty crisp box . |
| 5 | Had it not been for splintered wood and debris Alas on deck , and a ripped sail or two , the storm might have seemed no more than a bad dream . |
| 6 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 7 | It left very few records and , even at its height , seems to have employed no more than a handful of men . |
| 8 | Straining the last possible revolutions from her roaring Paxman engines , the old lady of the fleet , Vigilant was first to reach Guiding Lights , but despite darkness and mist had to wait no more than a few minutes for the other cutters to join her — a feat of seamanship that later lead to great praise from their Investigation colleagues ashore . |
| 9 | They had travelled no more than a few hundred yards — the Kurd leading , Miss Logan bringing up the rear — and were crossing a patch of rough scree , a descent more tiring than dangerous , when Miss Fergusson fell . |
| 10 | I ca n't X-ray it , of course , but I 'm pretty sure you 've suffered no more than a bad concussion . |
| 11 | But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect . |
| 12 | Yet Gemma had shown no more than a polite interest in Almsmead while Linnet , who was very dear but not Gemma , after all , had positively thrown herself into all the excitements of housebuilding and furnishing , taking to Far Flatley as if she had been born there . |
| 13 | Broom-Parker had played no more than a small part in the plot to make sure Pendero was beaten , she was certain of that . |
| 14 | With some reason did another Frenchman remark at this time that Britain had become no more than a colony of the American film industry . |
| 15 | Latterly , however , it had become no more than a framework for the recording of successes , with little attention being paid to problems such as the intensification of production or the improvement of food supplies . |
| 16 | The doctor had injected no more than a quarter of the syringe when Michael suddenly went rigid . |
| 17 | That she appeared to be having a marvellous time in Jamaica and was being hopelessly indulged by Dunbar had elicited no more than a shrug of Harry 's shoulders and a vague comment about his being delighted she was having such a good time . |
| 18 | He deduced that the nomadic Hebrews had their origins there and had brought no more than a handful of the place names with them when they eventually settled in Palestine . |
| 19 | And as far as Greg could judge there were a great many writers who had found a place in the book who were quite as obscure or more so — poets whose flame had died with the end of the war , one-off playwrights whose experimental verse dramas had caused no more than a ripple of interest even in their own time . |
| 20 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 21 | The whole operation had taken no more than a few minutes . |
| 22 | Even Frank Williams , who gave Mansell the fresh start he craved in 1985 , believed he had signed no more than a ‘ journeyman ’ , who would serve as a useful number two driver . |
| 23 | Eighteen per cent of the professionals had fathers with incomplete primary schooling , and 27 per cent came from families where the father had achieved no more than a primary level of education . |
| 24 | ‘ Those who still have homes have to take no more than a suitcase each . |