Example sentences of "[adv] no [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was moved and promising miracles , the recovery of things lost , the wholeness and holiness of things profaned ; but the faith she had professed was perhaps no more than a conviction that the star of the Prince of Aberffraw would not fail him , and that God would humour him and not cheat him of the fulfilment of his vow . |
| 2 | Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge . |
| 3 | Some physicians devalue dietary therapy for Type 2 diabetes by either commencing oral therapy concomitantly with diet or by giving diet alone no more than a month 's trial . |
| 4 | So no more than a canter was practicable , and even so Ramsay , peering urgently , was much concerned with possible upset and consequent break-up of the formation , if not worse . |
| 5 | [ music ] But as this music fades into the Interlude the E/F figure is suddenly no more than a detail in the seascape , a gull 's cry perhaps or a slight turbulence on the water [ 3 ] . |
| 6 | However , her categorisation is unprincipled in the sense that it does not really relate types of metaphor to each other , and is thus no more than a typology of poetic examples . |
| 7 | The shuttle was already no more than a streak of silver . |
| 8 | But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left . |
| 9 | But it is still no more than a performance . |
| 10 | Psepha was suddenly rising gracefully , the afternoon sunlight gleaming off wings that were still no more than a golden film . |
| 11 | Luckily they were usually no more than a few feet deep . |
| 12 | The never-ending rounds of golf and cocktail circuits ostensibly develop excellent customer relations but these are effectively no more than a veneer of sincerity iii the rude pursuit of the fast sale . |
| 13 | Pointy-Beard was trying to stand and loosen the knot ( by now probably no bigger than a square centimetre ) in his tie . |
| 14 | Hell , under all that gook on his eyelids , he was probably no blinder than a hawk . |
| 15 | Even so , a significant number of takeover bids were probably no more than a form of corporate conspicuous consumption . |
| 16 | It was probably no more than a daring exaggeration of the ‘ donkey-fringe ’ style which was the standard Hooligan haircut . |
| 17 | It was barely more than a flash impression and the man was turning and the light was n't at all good ; and besides , he pretty much resembled a pig anyway , so the effect was probably no more than a moment 's mistake . |
| 18 | And yet the thing had been in place for probably no more than a matter of weeks . |
| 19 | Attached to the Palace at Hailing in medieval times was the Bishop 's or Church Prison , mainly used for detaining those accused of lesser crimes such as debt and was probably no more than a cell or a building without windows but lit from a small skylight . |
| 20 | Craning and peering , they caught glimpses of a minor forest of lances and standards , though the number of riders was probably no more than a score ; and rumour on rumour flew down the street before them , and name on name . |
| 21 | It will not say how many subscribers it has — only that it expects to sign up no more than a couple of dozen by the autumn . |
| 22 | Sasbach is really no more than a scatter of houses , a couple of shops , a garage and a church set down in the middle of vineyards and orchards . |
| 23 | Dent Town is really no more than a village , although it may not be prudent to say so in the hearing of the residents . |
| 24 | This was really no more than a collage of bits and pieces of archive film , intercut with brief interviews , for which I wrote and narrated a restrained but admiring commentary . |
| 25 | Ryle 's positive point , in his Royal Institute of philosophy lecture , that Le Penseur 's thinking is to be understood in terms of that of the tennis player , is different from Wittgenstein 's positive point , in 88 to 136 or thereabouts , but particularly in 100–103 , which might now be expressed by saying that ‘ I thought … ’ is like ‘ I meant … ’ ( see above ) , though this way of putting it is really no more than a hint as to his meaning . |
| 26 | For his concept of ‘ interpellation ’ fails to explain the mechanism by which subjects are constituted , and is really no more than a redescription of its own result . |
| 27 | ‘ Did you now ? ’ said Hilary , coming in to the sick bay , which was really no more than a scruffy little room with only a slight hospital smell about it to bespeak its function . |
| 28 | He watched the young nun usher his two companions away and allowed Lady Amelia to take him into the small chamber , really no more than a cell with a table , stool and truckle bed . |
| 29 | Judge Angus Stroyan QC said : ‘ This was no doubt an extremely unpleasant few seconds for the girl but really no more than a drunken antic . |
| 30 | The earliest known inhabitant of my village , who had tilled its fields , fished its river , delighted at the sunshine and huddled around his smoking fire in the winter damp , who shared all our human emotions , love , hate , joy , sorrow and pain was now no more than a box of prehistoric Crunchie bars dried almost to dust . |