Example sentences of "[art] [det] than an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The challenge became even greater with the advent of 45rpm discs , which had to be provided with an ‘ optional centre ’ no less than an inch and a half in diameter for quick-acting autochange and juke-box mechanisms . |
| 2 | Some would turn the argument around and claim that the concept of deity is the product of that culture , being no more than an idealisation and personalisation of cultural elements , without any objective existence . |
| 3 | If his body jerked when he was struck again , and fatally , it was no more than an instant 's convulsion . |
| 4 | The contact was quick , no more than an instant , but it was unnerving . |
| 5 | The former 's idealistically active audience confronts the latter 's picture of passive consumers , which is no more than an abstraction . |
| 6 | Harry went in , enquired and was given , with no more than an eyebrow-twitch of puzzlement , a comprehensive catalogue of Shepherd & Woodward 's university wares . |
| 7 | When this cloud settles on the skin it causes a red rash , but it is no more than an irritation and certainly nothing to justify the terrible image of this animal that has been so relentlessly fostered by cheap novels and films . |
| 8 | Nenna had no more than an animal 's sense of direction and distance , but it seemed to her that the right thing to do would be to try to reach the City , then , once she got to Blackfriars , she knew where the river was , and though that would be Lambeth Reach or King 's Reach , a long way downstream of the boats , still , once she had got to the river she would be on the way home . |
| 9 | the Court of Appeal regarded ‘ common benefit ’ as no more than an element ( although an important element ) in showing consent in cases of the type of Carstairs v. Taylor . |
| 10 | The left-hand foliage pendant which once hung above the west door of the King 's Drawing Room bore the brunt of the flames and only two tiny fragments of the original 7ft drop survive ; a couple of limewood crocus heads no more than an inch and a half across . |
| 11 | Some are quite a major commitment , some a small but regular commitment , others no more than an hour or even a few minutes of your time . |
| 12 | No more than an hour passed before Jean-Claude came to me in the scullery and said he would be away for a few days . |
| 13 | A defeat on a specific issue does not lead to the resignation of a government ; it is no more than an expression of dissatisfaction designed to force the Cabinet to change its policy . |
| 14 | A conviction — or , for that matter , an acquittal — by a jury is no more than an expression of opinion by at least ten out of twelve people about the defendant 's guilt . |
| 15 | If he is of a poetic turn of mind , will he even see a kind of justice in the eventual return to silicon-based life , with DNA no more than an interlude , albeit one that lasted longer than three aeons ? |
| 16 | It may be concluded from this that prey size can be used as no more than an approximation to predator type , and size spectra are certainly not predator-specific . |
| 17 | The auditors had carried out a specific investigation of the Gimco bills and with regard to recoverability , they had no more than an assurance from Gimco , an Abu Dhabi entity , that the bills would be honoured ‘ within three to four months or earlier when able ’ and an unsupported statement by G that he believed Gimco would pay . |
| 18 | It looked tiny , no more than an emergency shelter , which of course was all it was intended to be . |
| 19 | Circumstances and what may amount to encouragement by the victim may sometimes mitigate the offence and , particularly under such conditions , impulsive or specifically planned rape is no more than an offence — it can hardly be thought of as deviant in the true sense of the word . |
| 20 | Or is the inner city problem no more than an exercise in name-calling ? |
| 21 | The efforts — and prison sentences — of the unofficial peace movement had redeemed the similarly contaminated word peace , but ‘ in my country , for ages now , socialism has been no more than an incantation that should be avoided if one does not wish to appear suspect . ’ |
| 22 | Although this may well be a valuable facility , it really forms no more than an appendage to the database , since we can not search a videodisc image for details within it in the way we can search text . |
| 23 | After suffering strokes in 1983 and 1986 , Abernathy caused controversy in 1989 when he published his autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , in which he expressed regret for having been seen as " no more than an appendage to Martin " . |
| 24 | If the telephone conversation amounts to no more than an inquiry or preliminary discussion , it may be that no contract is made then . |
| 25 | If a work is no more than an illustration of what I projected , it 's useless . |
| 26 | Veneers appear in the 1880s although an eighteenth-century example was discovered during the 1983–4 excavations at St Augustine-the-Less , Bristol , but this might have been no more than an attempt on the part of the coffin-maker to mask some splits at the shoulder caused by over-zealous saw-cuts when kerfing . |
| 27 | Section 6 , like many other sections of the Act is no more than an attempt to put into an Act of Parliament a rule of common law . |
| 28 | Kim Dae Jung had accused Roh of staging a constitutional coup by his merger with the opposition , and had characterized the DLP as no more than an attempt to provide a form of constitutional legitimacy for the government 's increasing authoritarianism . |
| 29 | Occasionally there is no more than an indication of the family 's ancestry : of migration from Ireland , or of a strain of distinction . |
| 30 | The designation warrior family ( shizoku ) was no more than an indication of family origins although it continued to have social prestige . |