Example sentences of "[art] more than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At best the programme was rated no more than moderately effective , being considered completely ineffective in respect of home-school links . |
| 32 | If only some can be verified , the non-observation statement will be no more than weakly verifiable . |
| 33 | We also have it that effects do no more than dependently necessitate their causal circumstances . |
| 34 | The likelihood of dying in the first year is increased by no more than twofold . |
| 35 | And while you can , if you wish , party on into the night , by day you need to do no more than gently toast your body on sandy beaches or explore the pretty coastline . |
| 36 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 37 | He 'd done no more than accidentally bump against some sailors aimlessly wandering from the passage next to the warehouse . |
| 38 | The final question which arises is whether , in the exercise of our discretion , we should let mandamus go bearing in mind that the events with which we are concerned occurred as long ago as 1989 and then occupied no more than perhaps three quarters of an hour . |
| 39 | My concern Madam Deputy Speaker is whether we 're all being hoodwinked into believing that deregulation bill is opening a new chapter in our legislative history when in fact it 's no more than perhaps a weasel word describing one thing but er er another thing is happening . |
| 40 | Naturally the students who had not been admitted to the courses of their first choice were in general no more than minimally qualified . |
| 41 | These initiatives are really no more than very small , first steps towards finding out whether CD-ROM has anything worthwhile to offer schools . |
| 42 | To put it at its highest , I was in no more than so-so shape by the time I reached Caduta 's . |
| 43 | ‘ You 're really down , are n't you ? – said Felix 's wife , who had come in with a jar of instant coffee and a jug of water no more than fairly hot , which increased Stephen 's worry that many things were falling behind . |
| 44 | These expansions , furthermore , introduce ideas no more than potentially implied in the Horatian phrase : " renews the plain " , " fashion " , " suffers " , " shakes " . |
| 45 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 46 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 47 | Looking ahead , the price by the year 2000 was expected to be no more than about $50 per tonne . |
| 48 | No hypnotic suggestion can be heard when the subject is at the Delta level — which , perhaps surprisingly , occupies no more than about half an hour each night . |
| 49 | For a good display , plant them about 100mm ( 4in ) deep , and no more than about 300mm ( 12in ) apart ; and for a more intense show , no more than 150mm ( 6in ) apart — the closer the better , but not touching . |
| 50 | More bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb . |
| 51 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 52 | In contrast , while few were quite as poor as Whitwell at a mere 22s. — not to mention the virtually notional 4s. produced by Buscot in Berkshire — a considerable number yielded no more than about £5 a year . |
| 53 | There are no more than about 300 complaints to the Lay Observer each year and it is rare for the Lay Observer to criticize The Law Society 's handling of a complaint . |
| 54 | He knew that he ought to be trying to sleep — he 'd managed no more than about five or six hours in the last fifty — but he was edgy and alert with the cold-water clarity of near-exhaustion . |
| 55 | From the outside terrace he looked down on to his own tiled patio , no more than about twelve feet beneath . |
| 56 | Its central nervous system consists of a few ganglia , no more than about 20,000 neurons in all . |
| 57 | However , informal repetition experiments suggest that no more than about 30% of searches contain a close match with any subject heading more than one word long . |
| 58 | It should be pointed out that even if the figures cited earlier are achieved , they are not overwhelming , since they constitute no more than about two years ' growth . |
| 59 | They are no more than about 20% efficient . |
| 60 | A couple of black kids no more than about nine years old appeared from nowhere , hands in pockets , just sauntering by . |