Example sentences of "[art] more [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They desire to keep perfectly still ; the more and the longer they move the more they suffer . |
| 2 | With no more than the occasional nudge on the tiller , Hope had steered Joseph Robinson to an inventory of his property , his cattle , his inn-sales , his fields , his sheep , goats , fowl and fishing rights . |
| 3 | We must learn to hold ourselves and move with an economy of effort , using no more than the appropriate amount of energy for any activity . |
| 4 | All the platinum ever mined would fill no more than the average living room . |
| 5 | Mark you , I said as she was too big , but they said as it could just be the water , as they could n't hear no more than the one heart . |
| 6 | My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed . |
| 7 | Each weekday morning no more than the first three eligible children presenting to the casualty unit were recruited by the study physician ( SW ) , who explained the nature and purpose of the study to parents and obtained their consent . |
| 8 | For one thing , some Dip.HE courses are effectively no more than the first two years of a degree course , with the added minor advantage that a student can if he wishes leave after two years with an award . |
| 9 | However much he might desire her , she would have no more than the allotted space in his life . |
| 10 | Ask a modern psychic and he will suggest that a poltergeist is no more than the manifesting energy of a disturbed human being . |
| 11 | ‘ Why should I want someone like you , whose squalid dreams of passion can encompass no more than the petty attentions of a man like Jones ? |
| 12 | Man is capable of a measure of creativity and mutual co-operation of which history has witnessed no more than the faintest inkling . |
| 13 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
| 14 | However , my predecessor , Bishop John Bickersteth , who for many years had been an advocate for issues of conservation , quite rightly protested that the Archbishop was saying no more than the biblical tradition states ! |
| 15 | If we are going to use standard units then we need to structure the demand situation in such a way that the required output needs no more than the standard units . |
| 16 | So , was the great Reform Bill of 1832 , as some have seen it , no more than the minimal concession to undeniable demand for change ? |
| 17 | The final figure was , in fact , no more than the appreciated sum of what Union Carbide had originally offered in 1986 ! |
| 18 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 19 | The libertarian interpretation rejects the notion that the revolutionaries represented no more than the extravagant daydreams of isolated malcontents . |
| 20 | On occasion , zones will be requested to submit notional breakdowns on their expenditure for the forthcoming year , but such submissions are often no more than the haziest guides to real expenditure . |
| 21 | The baselines may amount to no more than the total number of times each behaviour is noticed in a one hour session every day for a week . |
| 22 | To have a federation in which one of the parts is as much as eight-tenths of the whole and the other parts amount to no more than the remaining two-tenths is almost inconceivable . |
| 23 | No more than the latter does it seek to lay claim to ‘ the real , or Truth as such . |
| 24 | By really understanding our Buyers ' needs we cut out time wasting and abortive visits and ensure you pay no more than the correct price in this mixed market . |
| 25 | After all he is no more than the chief executive officer of government , his province is not to make but to execute the laws . |
| 26 | So it had been quite refreshing when Luke had said goodbye with no more than the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek . |
| 27 | It is a substantial prop but supports no more than the traditional safeguards for the protection of species and against cruelty and abuse . |
| 28 | ‘ No , no more than the real Feargal McMahon is the oaf sitting across me arguing himself into a corner . ’ |
| 29 | Some may say yes and some may say no and it will have all the appearance of a decision being made , but the real structure may have been no more than the bland question/answer relationship between the teacher-in-role and the class . |
| 30 | The comment that all of this prompts is first , that it amounts to no more than the well-understood case for good personnel management in conventionally organised manufacturing or service industry . |