Example sentences of "[pron] no more [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover I have given order that they who collect my dues take from you no more than the tenth , because so it is appointed by the custom of the Moors , and it is what ye have been wont to pay . |
| 2 | The reduction of the other to means and of his own ends to survival , itself no more than a means without ends left to serve , would be tolerable , if at all , only because the variety of human ends will open up again for him if he ever gets to shore . |
| 3 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 4 | Anyway such selective enfranchisement was itself no more than a cynical way of heading off despair , what modern political scientists call ‘ repressive tolerance ’ . |
| 5 | In the West , the time of retirement for many people is the end of their usefulness and it means for them no more than a hopeless waiting for them . |
| 6 | Many , indeed , had already been dispossessed , since emigrants from Germany were permitted to take with them no more than a nominal ten Reichsmarks . |
| 7 | Its object was to reduce disparity in sentences of imprisonment , and to remove the difficulty which judges faced when Parliament had told them no more than the maximum sentence for a particular crime : see Reflections on the English Sentencing System by Professor Sir Rupert Cross , Child & Co . |
| 8 | Herbert told me that his government , saddened by so many post-war feature films in which heroic Allies and horrid Nazis went on refighting old battles ( to me no more than the modern equivalent of cowboys and Indians ) was much impressed by the non-partisan nature of my films and books , and intended to give public expression of their approval . |
| 9 | Supported almost unanimously by her business and financial community , Britain , in her own eyes , was creating for herself no more and no less than an enormous home market comparable to that of the United States and larger than that of the new trading giant , Japan . |
| 10 | He liked to live in company with another ; Bo-Bo had only negative virtues but , he had to admit , he would be lonely when she died , and the doctors gave her no more than a year . |
| 11 | She gave him no more than a perfunctory ‘ So glad you could come , ’ before passing him on to her husband . |
| 12 | It took him no more than a few seconds of the exchange to decide which voice was Kemp 's . |
| 13 | His response to a Christian who might approach him with the request to convert to Hinduism would be to urge him to try to be a good Christian since the Gītā could offer him no more than the Bible . |
| 14 | He was going home , and home meant to him no more and no less than the room where his mother was dying . |
| 15 | So it just skips past B , giving it no more than a quick glance , and takes up C. |
| 16 | Cadfael felt it , but thought it no more than the tension of the sortes . |
| 17 | Now that I actually stood in the house of Victor Frankenstein , I felt myself no more than a character in a fantastic film . |
| 18 | It left us no more than a 7-iron into the green . |
| 19 | I think Cowslip 's told us no more than the truth . |
| 20 | The same problem of interpretation arises from any use of manorial records , probably the best available documentary source ; these can tell us no more than the number of holdings which fell vacant on particular estates and throw no light on mortality among landless persons . |