Example sentences of "no more than [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On television that evening Mobutu said that the conference could do no more than write the new constitution , and could not adopt it . |
| 2 | In many respects cities do no more than reflect the wider processes that prevail within society as a whole . |
| 3 | Improving village schooling may , however , have done no more than keep the total proportion of Kent 's children receiving schooling constant , for there is also evidence of a deteriorating situation in some of the towns . |
| 4 | That Sirteco was obliged to do no more than inform the foreign commerce ministry that the waste disposal contract had been paid for illustrates the failure of the Italian government to monitor the international activities of waste disposal companies . |
| 5 | Arguably , the defence has no evidential burden to discharge in this situation , for , since the defence is seeking to do no more than deny the basic elements of the prosecution 's case , any assertion of consent by the defence should be placed before the jury . |
| 6 | Most simply give themselves up , and , in the case of those who have done no more than poach the odd buck for a little bushmeat , are often let off with a caution . |
| 7 | Designed to nip in the bud any incipient growth in villages , it was successful , so far as the city was concerned , probably because it did no more than sanction the existing situation , even though in the fifteenth century the trade had flourished at Hartlebury , which remained an important centre of the specialised craft of fulling . |
| 8 | However , they can do no more than recommend the best of the available options and even in expert hands the treatment of anorexia nervous must still be considered unsatisfactory . |
| 9 | In custodial terms , even a successful simulation exercise does no more than transfer the operational persona of an historic early machine to a currently supportable platform ( typically a 486-based PC ) which will itself be duly subject to generational obsolescence : the potential of the technique lies not in the immortality of current hardware but in the prospect of machine-independent software . |
| 10 | There is one area in which costing systems can do no more than provide the raw data , and that is in the treatment of overruns , variations and claims , which can often only be quantified by a detailed interpretation of the data recorded in the system . |
| 11 | The G7 members did no more than reassure the financial markets about their readiness to intervene to curb volatility . |
| 12 | From what I have said so far it may sound as if the Prague School did no more than restate the Russian Formalists ' theories in more systematic language . |
| 13 | This section does no more than restate the common law position and could be considered superfluous . |
| 14 | No longer need a search for set words be made ; it was now a matter of seeking words , or even deeds , which need do no more than satisfy the minimal essential principles of the law of trusts . |
| 15 | The evolution of mammals after the Cretaceous was both extremely rapid and very complex , and we can do no more than give the roughest sketch here . |
| 16 | In saying that the power exists we were doing no more than to reaffirm the unlimited nature of the court 's inherent jurisdiction over minors , a jurisdiction which empowers and may require the court to override the wishes of a minor , even if he or she has sufficient understanding to make an informed decision . |