Example sentences of "[prep] no more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SERPS consists of no more than a promise that future generations will pick up the bill . |
| 2 | Yet for many centuries , Cheltenham consisted of no more than a single street , lined with a few houses . |
| 3 | Even an estate worth upwards of £100 a year might well consist of no more than a couple of manors plus an assortment of lesser parcels , all located in a single county . |
| 4 | It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years . |
| 5 | In the darkness we passed through the defile of Gebel Silsila where the river narrows dramatically to a width of no more than a few yards . |
| 6 | In many cases git consists of no more than a few managers/supervisors . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | questions with a predetermined answer of no more than a few words |
| 9 | This type of constructed response item consists of a question with a predetermined answer of no more than a few words . |
| 10 | Lukic was guilty of no more than a challenge for a 50–50 ball with the speeding Rob Jones around the 18-yard line . |
| 11 | Small companies wishing to dispense with the burden of audit would have to have turnover of no more than the VAT registration threshold , under new proposals from the Government . |
| 12 | I could think of no more than the usual inadequate response . |
| 13 | The shots sounded like no more than a bad cough . |
| 14 | In reality , a business — like everything else — is worth no more than the best offer you can obtain at the time of a sale . |
| 15 | If it is not , and the garage or other body running the extended warranty scheme goes out of business , the warranty will be worth no more than the paper it is written on . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The established head taking up a keen interest in marketing may well be seen as no more than a leopard cynically changing spots to match the climate of LMS and the introduction of pupil driven funding . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Early travellers to Mozambique described the station at Beira as no more than a muddy , fever-infested street corner . |
| 20 | The present occupant may say ‘ Oh well , I let old Mrs Smith walk through my garden and down the sideway when she needs to ’ and regard it as no more than a neighbours ' agreement . |
| 21 | I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend . |
| 22 | One view sees retirement as no more than a form of compulsory unemployment within an economy which can no longer offer full employment . |
| 23 | The CGT , for instance , has regarded collective bargaining as no more than a temporary measure of the balance of power between management and unions , enabling the union to obtain the best negotiating results for wage-earners at a given point in time ( Goetschy , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | The claim that unschooled Wolof children have not developed the ‘ logical functions ’ of language will appear then as no more than a statement that the conventions in which their thinking is expressed are different from those of the researcher herself . |
| 25 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 26 | If , by contrast , the company was viewed as no more than a contractual association between the members much like a partnership , it was difficult to explain why each shareholder should not be liable for the full extent of any debts , as was the case in a partnership . |
| 27 | Participatory democracy necessarily has implications for social life , and is better regarded as a way of life than as no more than a political device or method . |
| 28 | Sartre ultimately chose to ignore the constructive Marxist elements in Nizan 's life and work which , from the vantage point of 1960 , were perceived as no more than a Stalinist mystification and selected instead as the model for a post-Stalinist epoch , the uncompromising rebellion of a young intellectual of the 1920s venting his spleen on the iniquities of bourgeois oppression at home and colonial oppression abroad . |
| 29 | In a further speech in August 1987 he complained that there had been a tendency both in the USSR and outside it to see the socialist construction of the 1930s as no more than a series of mistakes . |
| 30 | But the villagers regarded the new name as no more than a foreigner 's eccentric fancy which they were under no obligation either to use or recognise . |