Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] more than [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did it do no more than keep a subsistence economy running ? |
| 2 | The sun was shining at two thousand feet , but it did no more than lacquer the fog . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 5 | Education must be an adjunct to rather than a substitute for psychotherapy , but it is worthwhile if it does no more than alert the patient to the dangers of behaviours such as laxative misuse . |
| 6 | It does no more than demonstrate the fact that Sartre was assessing Nizan 's revolutionary novels via his own specifically existentialist vision of the novelist 's task . |
| 7 | Assuming that it is what it should be , it does no more than incorporate into law a moral right existing independently of the law . |