Example sentences of "no [det] than an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 2 | Supported almost unanimously by her business and financial community , Britain , in her own eyes , was creating for herself no more and no less than an enormous home market comparable to that of the United States and larger than that of the new trading giant , Japan . |
| 3 | In our forthcoming activities as private dealers we will require no more than an administrative infrastructure . |
| 4 | On housing ‘ it is not in general desirable to seek to control the disposal of private houses through planning restrictions ’ ; on industry and commerce ‘ policies and proposals … should promote and not hinder the regeneration of industry and reflect an up to date and realistic view of the scale , pattern and diversity of industry ’ ; on retail development ‘ policies and proposals should neither seek to regulate competition between retailers nor to stifle the evolution of new forms of retail provision ’ ; and on agriculture and forestry ‘ authorities should take account of the need to ensure that no more than an essential minimum of agricultural land is diverted to development ’ . |
| 5 | At first , the difficulty he had in opening the door of his room seemed no more than an irritating trifle . |
| 6 | It should be no more than an introductory aid , enabling the user to identify relevant sections of PPGs and MPGs , and encouraging him/her to delve more deeply . |
| 7 | Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface . |
| 8 | Having made what is no more than an interim custody order , the Ontario court , in my judgment , retained what article 5 ( a ) of the Convention calls ‘ the right to determine the child 's place of residence . ’ |
| 9 | In the words of Professor Williams , ‘ it is no more than an authentic example of male chauvinism . ’ |
| 10 | Of those who are remembered , the more distant or briefly glimpsed a grandparent , the more likely the recollection is to be no more than an external image . |
| 11 | It means that a plaintiff with no more than an arguable case for suppressing a story on breach of confidence grounds can obtain , at a secret High Court hearing , an injunction against one defendant ( perhaps a journal whose financial position does not permit a legal contest ) and thereafter enforce it against every media outlet in the country . |
| 12 | This appearance of humility and a claim to be no more than an ordinary man are almost certain to win popularity with the plebeians , and Antony knows it . |
| 13 | To walk was to risk breaking it , but there could be no more than an overnight stop before Adrar , the end of the macadam and the last supply point before open desert . |
| 14 | But to attempt to isolate them , in practice , can be no more than an illustrative device since the language-game we use of human beings encapsulates the possibility that at any moment Mary can be summoned from such a state , or summon herself , to one of reflection about her reasons for adopting this or that tactic . |
| 15 | Zurich is an essential part of one of the regions inviting exploration , north Switzerland , which tourists are inclined to pass through with no more than an approving nod , rather than lingering to find out . |
| 16 | To Leese , Mosley was a ‘ kosher fascist ’ , a Jewish agent planted to discredit the whole concept of fascism in Britain ; to Mosley , Leese was no more than an anti-semitic crank . |
| 17 | And the smell , which at first had been tentative , elusive , no more than an alien tincture on the air , now seemed to seep into the passage with the strong effluvium of death . |
| 18 | Volvo 's two-litre B200 engine had always been smoother than the bigger-bore 2.3 , but it made no more than an adequate job of hauling the corpulent 940 . |
| 19 | On other sites it is no more than an amused smile and a wave of the hand . |
| 20 | ‘ And I 'm quite certain that the series of injuries was no more than an unfortunate set of coincidences . ’ |
| 21 | Behind this monument from the past , no more than an old man 's rotten tooth , rise the buildings of the new age , featureless mathematical boxes assembled from concrete , their serried rows of uniform plate glass windows catching a gleam of what is probably the setting sun . |
| 22 | AT THE turn of the last century there was no more than an old windmill on the Burston site . |
| 23 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 24 | Like an unloaded pistol held at the believer 's head , critical doubt is no more than an empty threat . |
| 25 | In our own time the Armstrongs ' Hollows Tower has been romantically restored ; but Mangerton , home of the most powerful of the Liddesdale branch of the family , is no more than an overgrown knot of stones on a knoll beside an equally melancholy , abandoned railway line . |
| 26 | Bourani seemed greenly remote from all that ; so far , and yet so near ; its small mysteries , which grew smaller as the week passed , no more than an added tang , or hazard , in its other promise of civilized pleasure . |
| 27 | The light was not on in his room behind him , and from outside Mr Wolski might have seemed no more than an insubstantial shape , the reds and blues of his pyjamas now turned into grim black stripes against white , such as some of the prisoners in Nazi death camps of the Second World War had worn . |
| 28 | It was no more than an enormous drawing-room but the combination of a log fire , wood panelling and a Jacobean table covered with a crisp , white cloth and laid with four places for dinner created the illusion of gracious living . |
| 29 | Hanson , say its detractors , is no more than an artful asset-stripper . |
| 30 | There we said that the foundationalist 's beliefs about his sensory states , to be infallible , would have to have vanishingly small content ; in fact , to amount to no more than an incomprehensible gesture . |