Example sentences of "no more than [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some sense this is no more than a public relations exercise , albeit a difficult one . |
| 2 | Any non-party candidate will have a very small chance of being elected and if , surprisingly , he is elected , he will have no more than a minute chance of exercising significant influence in the House . |
| 3 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 4 | My argument was that he might as well use pit-props for his fishing , for he could n't possibly gain any enjoyment from playing fish , or handling such a rod with no more than a 4lb line . |
| 5 | Modern scientific man thinks that he is no more than a chance arrangement of dust and water , of molecules — though he may acknowledge that the atoms and molecules , indeed all life forms , are highly ordered and organized ! |
| 6 | entire mass was guarded , on its left flank , by Kummer 's Army Group — in reality no more than a cavalry division , 44 infantry battalions and some artillery and bicyclists — and on the right , by the Kovess Army Group of two corps . |
| 7 | It may need no more than a discussion session , or a change of emphasis introduced at an appropriate point to allow this to be covered . |
| 8 | And although Cantona has played no more than a bit part following his half-time introduction , his new manager claimed he was well satisfied . |
| 9 | With the collapse of the Seamen 's United all thoughts of a national organisation became no more than a pipe dream . |
| 10 | Imagine a trackway , winding across a hillside , no more than a sheep track , perhaps , or an ancient drove road . |
| 11 | So far , I have concentrated on some of the standard aspects of prison life and routine — in some ways no more than a mirror image of other large institutions . |
| 12 | on no more than a Terence Trent D'Arby morning |
| 13 | Many thousands of stories , large and small , and even feature material are placed with no more than a press release in mail or some short telephone contact , and even PRO 's who work regularly with their own trade publications may , because of the distance between their offices and those of the publication , never have met the editors . |
| 14 | He was searching for ‘ his class ’ , which he never found , and talked about ‘ the laboratory ’ , which was no more than a back kitchen with a bunsen burner and running water . |
| 15 | And he was there , making the impossible leap from the ground to the moving platform , ducking beneath the barrel of the cannon , waving his chainsword in circles as if it weighed no more than a walking stick . |
| 16 | It was no more than a flip ad-lib . |
| 17 | Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him . |
| 18 | But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect . |
| 19 | Taxation is no more than a quantification machinery by means of which the recoverable amount of costs , disbursements , expenses , etc. is ascertained . |
| 20 | However , if you have travelled some distance , use a thermometer to check temperature of pond and transport water and if there is no more than a 4° difference , release the fish straight away . |
| 21 | No more than a kindergarten poster painting of a turnip with a moon-mouth smile . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , a foot sweep does require a lot of power to prevent it from degenerating into no more than a shin attack . |
| 23 | What is no more than a side effect of the operation of preferential voting is misrepresented by the propagandists as the consequence of purposeful calculation . |
| 24 | Other memories are no more than a nutshell description , a fleeting image , perhaps of an eccentricity . |
| 25 | The Land Rover had originally been meant to be no more than a safety net . |
| 26 | ‘ Labour 's supposed conversion to multilateralism is no more than a confidence trick to try to make Labour electable . |
| 27 | In one sense , offering insurance in this way may be no more than a marketing device and the whole deal is a matter for the commercial judgement of the firm involved — and their clients . |
| 28 | Reginald de Grey reckoned every Welshman a thief and an outlaw , and had his borders patrolled as though against the entire army of France , in great measure creating the animosity and disorder he saw everywhere ; and this company might be no more than a routine patrol meant to impress and intimidate on his usual terms . |
| 29 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
| 30 | A last uneasy look at the chief inspector told him his visitor was genuinely interested , paying no more than a routine call . |