Example sentences of "no [det] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any non-party candidate will have a very small chance of being elected and if , surprisingly , he is elected , he will have no more than a minute chance of exercising significant influence in the House . |
| 2 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 3 | Modern scientific man thinks that he is no more than a chance arrangement of dust and water , of molecules — though he may acknowledge that the atoms and molecules , indeed all life forms , are highly ordered and organized ! |
| 4 | It may need no more than a discussion session , or a change of emphasis introduced at an appropriate point to allow this to be covered . |
| 5 | And although Cantona has played no more than a bit part following his half-time introduction , his new manager claimed he was well satisfied . |
| 6 | With the collapse of the Seamen 's United all thoughts of a national organisation became no more than a pipe dream . |
| 7 | So far , I have concentrated on some of the standard aspects of prison life and routine — in some ways no more than a mirror image of other large institutions . |
| 8 | Many thousands of stories , large and small , and even feature material are placed with no more than a press release in mail or some short telephone contact , and even PRO 's who work regularly with their own trade publications may , because of the distance between their offices and those of the publication , never have met the editors . |
| 9 | He was searching for ‘ his class ’ , which he never found , and talked about ‘ the laboratory ’ , which was no more than a back kitchen with a bunsen burner and running water . |
| 10 | And he was there , making the impossible leap from the ground to the moving platform , ducking beneath the barrel of the cannon , waving his chainsword in circles as if it weighed no more than a walking stick . |
| 11 | It was no more than a flip ad-lib . |
| 12 | Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him . |
| 13 | But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect . |
| 14 | Taxation is no more than a quantification machinery by means of which the recoverable amount of costs , disbursements , expenses , etc. is ascertained . |
| 15 | No more than a kindergarten poster painting of a turnip with a moon-mouth smile . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , a foot sweep does require a lot of power to prevent it from degenerating into no more than a shin attack . |
| 17 | What is no more than a side effect of the operation of preferential voting is misrepresented by the propagandists as the consequence of purposeful calculation . |
| 18 | Other memories are no more than a nutshell description , a fleeting image , perhaps of an eccentricity . |
| 19 | The Land Rover had originally been meant to be no more than a safety net . |
| 20 | ‘ Labour 's supposed conversion to multilateralism is no more than a confidence trick to try to make Labour electable . |
| 21 | In one sense , offering insurance in this way may be no more than a marketing device and the whole deal is a matter for the commercial judgement of the firm involved — and their clients . |
| 22 | Reginald de Grey reckoned every Welshman a thief and an outlaw , and had his borders patrolled as though against the entire army of France , in great measure creating the animosity and disorder he saw everywhere ; and this company might be no more than a routine patrol meant to impress and intimidate on his usual terms . |
| 23 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
| 24 | A last uneasy look at the chief inspector told him his visitor was genuinely interested , paying no more than a routine call . |
| 25 | He had about a pound on him , in small change , which would buy no more than a chocolate bar and a couple of packets of crisps . |
| 26 | Then she skirted the table , gripped her stepmother by the shoulders , and began to shake her as if she was no more than a rag doll . |
| 27 | In this instance it is wise to have no more than a 4-inch drop on the indicator and sit with your hand hovering over the rod . |
| 28 | All the equipment here could be explained away ; this was no more than a training ground for those interested in self-defence , martial arts and war games . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Mr Barnet was no more than a business acquaintance , but with true American hospitality he had taken pity on the young English couple who had no means of escaping from the city . |