Example sentences of "no more than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The only way of addressing that differently , if indeed the guideline is strictly applied , and you 're required to identify no more than a net increase of six hundred and forty thousand in ninety five , six , the second year of this programme , then you would have to put in additional line of further savings as yet to be identified . |
| 32 | In some cases the tube connecting the bag to the gut became no more than a solid thread . |
| 33 | Mary herself , in captivity in England but forever smuggling out letters and appeals , dealt slyly in shrouded half-promises and suggestions , but made one thing quite clear : she still regarded herself as rightful Queen of Scots and , even towards the end , offered no more than a grudging suggestion of James being ‘ associated ’ with her in ruling the country . |
| 34 | Edward Pilkington writing in the Guardian later commented , ‘ What at first glance appears to be no more than a simple case of human error becomes , at closer examination , as much a story about bungling management and an inadequate safety system born of years of cuts . |
| 35 | Hewlett Packard has launched the LaserJet 4 , a 600 dots per inch network printer which sets new standards for print quality and ease of use , and yet costs no more than a current LaserJet 3 . |
| 36 | In fact , financial targets might be seen as equivalent to constraints imposed by shareholders in a public company who require dividends of a certain level ( or indeed as related to constraints on regulated companies who must earn no more than a certain return on capital ; see chapter 5 ) . |
| 37 | What is being proposed at the moment , however , is no more than a certain view of our conception of causation . |
| 38 | Dexter watched as his boss stared out into the night , no more than a black profile : her full lips , rounded nose and firm chin silhouetted against the wall behind . |
| 39 | We must accept that the bogus traveller — that is the best title to give to such a person — is seeking no more than a better life . |
| 40 | The flat , as yet unsought , no more than a vague possibility among others , would assume dimensions , location , a horribly plausible reality in which he found himself arranging his pictures carefully on a non-existent wall , thinking over the disposal of his household goods , the exact location of his stereo system . |
| 41 | They themselves face no more than a trifling penalty if caught . |
| 42 | That sense will in most cases resolve itself into the question of whether the comment was honestly made , which is no more than a defining characteristic of " fair comment " in the first place . |
| 43 | The whole of the difference could be a consequence of the operation of the acquired equivalence mechanism , with the acquired distinctiveness procedure constituting no more than a neutral control procedure . |
| 44 | They treat Scotland as no more than a mere appendage of England , and seek to impose on Scotland an educational agenda that is irrelevant to the real needs of Scottish education . |
| 45 | AFTER months of ministerial indecision , the Government 's formula for restoring confidence in Hong Kong emerged last night to a mixed response from a bitterly divided House of Commons — and no more than a guarded welcome from the colony itself . |
| 46 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 47 | Come back safely , ’ and when they were all specks in the distant twilight and the savage pandemonium of their leaving no more than a muted throbbing , she had sent her love high and wide so it would find her lover in that vast , uncaring sky . |
| 48 | Subject to these provisos , the proposal is no more than a logical development of the original WEA practice of asking the University to provide teaching facilities through Joint Committee procedure . |
| 49 | While the lizard scuttles away to safety , the predator is left to discover , little by little , that its apparently succulent meal is in reality no more than a scaly scrag-end . |
| 50 | Zenith 's knowledge of Acme 's program is no more than a competent user would achieve — possible infringement of copyright because the structure of Zenith 's program is determined by Zenith 's familiarity with the structure of Acme 's program which Zenith copies indirectly , although the Computer Associates test , discussed above , might reduce protection . |
| 51 | Of course , this might have been no more than a diplomatic ruse by the Russians to initiate a dependence which would permit a later imposition of heavier tribute payments without negative results . |
| 52 | We know of one prolific kite-maker , whose kites are marketed everywhere , who uses no more than a sharp knife of the ‘ snap-off ’ type to cut dozens of panels in a laminated pack around a metal template . |
| 53 | The 30-year-old champion from Croydon pulled himself up at nine with seemingly no more than a split second to spare and it was possible that American referee Rudy Battle , handling his 57th world title fight , gave him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 54 | The Greek civil war of 1946–49 — less than half a century ago in fact , but merely yesterday in the politics of south-east Europe — was the last great European left-versus-right convulsion ; by comparison , the Hungarian rebellion of 1956 was no more than a bloody skirmish . |
| 55 | What I am speculating — and it can be no more than a retrospective speculation based on reports from sportsmen themselves — is that black parents were too preoccupied with maintaining a material existence to attend to sport : they were too busy making ends meet . |
| 56 | A dogma that once looked profound had been shown to be no more than a simplistic diagram ; and social reality is too complex , in the end , to be embraced by any single theory of history or of class . |
| 57 | The very circumstance , however , which made the public schools a perfect vehicle for propaganda — their isolation , through the boarding system , from the outside world and the idiosyncratic influence of families — ensured that Dr Arnold , in his crusade for the personal salvation of his charges , could enjoy no more than a limited success . |
| 58 | Along with the mingling of the genres go the other stylistic features of a rather modish postmodernism : pastiche ; montage ; paraphrase ; parody ; allusion ; quotation ; often adding up to no more than a cultivated divertissement . |
| 59 | This is highly efficient , but is no more than a slight modification of the normal skin-shedding process — quite an easy evolutionary step for any reptilian species to make , especially in comparison with the ‘ natural ligature ’ device in the lizard 's tail . |
| 60 | There is some slight degree of foundation for this remark , but no more than a slight degree . |