Example sentences of "no more than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , when I first saw it , seemed to be no more than a pleasant crater , but later explorations by experts have classed it as one of the most severe in the district . |
| 2 | There is another function of playing dead that has been depicted for centuries but which , until recently , was thought to be no more than a fictitious folk-tale . |
| 3 | It might have been the man that he 'd seen before or it might not ; his face was no more than a characterless oval with a few spare lines drawn on it for features . |
| 4 | I know it did n't hurt , the paint pellet hitting and exploding with no more than a mild flick . |
| 5 | Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge . |
| 6 | In the West , the time of retirement for many people is the end of their usefulness and it means for them no more than a hopeless waiting for them . |
| 7 | The farmer who sold it was happy to rid himself of a wreck which was no more than a dangerous playground . |
| 8 | — Wood , paper , natural fibre , cloth , or products thereof , containing no more than a negligible amount of plastics in the product or packaging . |
| 9 | Warnings from the opposition that the government 's ‘ No Tax Increases ’ slogan was no more than a vote-gathering lie were rebuffed as fear-mongering and , better still , as unpatriotic . |
| 10 | Broom-Parker had played no more than a small part in the plot to make sure Pendero was beaten , she was certain of that . |
| 11 | In that situation X , being an unsecured creditor , is likely to obtain no more than a small percentage of the price he is owed . |
| 12 | Important [ but unrecognized ] though they may be to the man in the street , functional methacrylates are no more than a small side-branch in ICI 's acrylic chain . |
| 13 | Even the most significant unions could recruit no more than a small fraction of the workers in their industry . |
| 14 | Nurse practitioners in most of the participating major departments managed no more than a small fraction of the patients each day . |
| 15 | No more than a small bullet that would make her bleed . |
| 16 | Of course , the NME has consistently only really been as good as the contemporary music , film etc it celebrates and criticises , and remains a decent barometer , despite the sporadically desperate-seeming attempts to apply bellows to no more than a small flame . |
| 17 | Assessment would be no more than a subjective judgement of how well the student could perform specific DTP tasks . |
| 18 | In 1987 , soul is no more than a packed vehicle beating a hasty retreat from what are perceived as the excesses of white modernism . |
| 19 | Gordon was the first to provide irrefutable evidence of what had been until then no more than a faint suspicion : that puerperal fever was a contagious disease that could be carried from patient to patient by doctors and midwives . |
| 20 | It 's reassuring to get things into some kind of cosmic perspective , to realize that the total of man 's activity is no more than a faint line on the infinite creativity of God 's hand . ’ |
| 21 | His voice was no more than a faint whisper now but it was as if his words were spraying vitriol on her face , because she tossed her head from side to side as if throwing off the spray . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Participatory democracy necessarily has implications for social life , and is better regarded as a way of life than as no more than a political device or method . |
| 24 | A busy place at which most tourists cast no more than a cursory glance and pass on . |
| 25 | Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd . |
| 26 | Perhaps , in some unimaginably distant region , the cosmos simply melted away into Chaos without sane dimensions — so that all the immensity of physical reality , all the billions of light years of stars and galaxies without number , amounted to no more than a tiny archipelago within a dire and senseless ocean of absurdity . |
| 27 | But Aeschylus , however close to the Wagnerian ideal , was no more than a spiritual ancestor . |
| 28 | At worst it was looked upon as evil and at best no more than a utilitarian pest-destroyer . |
| 29 | And it must pay no more than a reasonable service fee to agents . |
| 30 | 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 . |