Example sentences of "no more [conj] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , looking back , Sara knew that if she were asked she would put a circle round this evening , this particular point in time , and say , " That 's when the heartache began , " a tiny little pain to begin with , no more than a tremor of consciousness , the veriest pinprick . |
| 2 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 3 | After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself . |
| 4 | Indeed , we must suspect that under the interests theory the criterion of personal responsibility is no more than a function of social policy : the more highly the interest is regarded , the closer we are drawn towards unlimited personal responsibility . |
| 5 | In many cases the accompaniment may be no more than a doubling of the melody ( at the unison or octave , or even in the bass ) with added chordal harmony . |
| 6 | And within was empty darkness , fenced off by no more than a ridge of soil . |
| 7 | Some local people also work close to the church , daily setting out their stalls of fruit , vegetables or fish in the narrow alleyways , the vicoli , which spread out from the tiny square , no more than a broadening of the road really , before the church . |
| 8 | None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) . |
| 9 | So , in a paper written to commemorate the life and work of Danny Lehrman , whose critical interest in ethology and psychiatry had been considerable , I argued pessimistically ( Crook 1977 a ) that an understanding of the primate behaviour I had been reviewing ‘ provides no more than a kind of educational backcloth — a reference literature for university courses on human evolution and that it can not begin to touch upon the existential issues that are the central focus of living human relations . |
| 10 | What I do find difficult to swallow — we argued long about this — is some strange belief of his that the world is immaterial and that humanity ( if I have it correctly ) is no more than a kind of metaphysical construct projected by nature and relying on words rather than flesh for its continued existence . |
| 11 | But this confused political and economic independence , as if politics were no more than a reflex of economics . |
| 12 | The syllabus , after all , is no more than a sketch of the terrain ; the scheme of work is a strategic plan which identifies objectives and tactics , and which allows for review and reinforcement . |
| 13 | This may depend on their level of awareness , or , as Edward de Bono puts it in his Second Law of Thinking , what appears to be ‘ proof ’ is often no more than a lack of imagination in providing an alternative explanation . |
| 14 | If a senior officer were to be viewed as no more than a member of an amorphous managerial team , said Mr Roach , the public would be led to believe that any complaint against a policemen was merely being investigated by ‘ one of the boys . |
| 15 | 170 it was held that the word ‘ convicted ’ in sections 9 and 12 of the Coinage Offences Act 1861 ( 24 & 25 Vict. c. 99 ) referred to no more than a finding of guilt . |
| 16 | Perhaps Somalia has more in common with Chad , another desert full of warlords , where the toppling of one gang by another caused no more than a bit of looting last month . |
| 17 | With DOS it 's all clean and simple , no more than a bit of tweaking for CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT . |
| 18 | Sasbach is really no more than a scatter of houses , a couple of shops , a garage and a church set down in the middle of vineyards and orchards . |
| 19 | On this occasion congress exercised its constitutional right to declare war , but , in retrospect , this seems to have been no more than a case of going through the motions — the age of crisis was well underway and the constitutional balance of powers would never be the same again . |
| 20 | Providing that the catfish is avoided , and no more than a total of 15 cm ( 6 in ) length fish is introduced for every 0.09 square metre ( square foot ) of the surface area of the water , excluding the marginal areas , then few problems should be encountered . |
| 21 | Sometimes this is no more than a description of what has to be done but sometimes it incorporates how the operator does it or should do it . |
| 22 | I have already instanced the first chapter of Simenon 's Maigret 's Pickpocket , which consists of no more than a description of Maigret riding to work on a bus , as being as gripping as any chase sequence , from the absolute accuracy of the writing and its complete economy . |
| 23 | Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent . |
| 24 | As an identity , the quantity theory is no more than a way of calculating the velocity of circulation . |
| 25 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 26 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 27 | The Colonel did not stop to reassure his wife , but rose neatly , pushed his chair under his table and with swift , disciplined steps reached the terrace no more than a couple of yards behind Miss Danziger . |
| 28 | It will not say how many subscribers it has — only that it expects to sign up no more than a couple of dozen by the autumn . |
| 29 | The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US . |
| 30 | The tidal range in the Caribbean sea off the north coast of Panama is very modest — no more than a couple of feet . |