Example sentences of "[adv] no more [conj] [art] " 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 | His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right . |
3 | Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The image of the first quatrain is one of inanimacy where ‘ late the sweet birds sang ’ , but do so no more and the only movement is in the few leaves trembling ‘ against the cold . ’ |
7 | [ 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 ] . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The shuttle was already no more than a streak of silver . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | But it is still no more than a performance . |
12 | Psepha was suddenly rising gracefully , the afternoon sunlight gleaming off wings that were still no more than a golden film . |
13 | It begins just after Gregory King 's population estimate in 1695 of 5.3 million ( Glass 1965a ) ; possibly no more than the medieval peak . |
14 | Luckily they were usually no more than a few feet deep . |
15 | Yet these examples , too , are significant , for they underline the unfortunate truth that the production and distribution of books to primary schools are important enough , financially , to attract the very largest species of shark against whom the professional at the ministry or in the centre ( who is usually no more than an average sized fish ) has little redress . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Even so , a significant number of takeover bids were probably no more than a form of corporate conspicuous consumption . |
19 | It was probably no more than a daring exaggeration of the ‘ donkey-fringe ’ style which was the standard Hooligan haircut . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | And yet the thing had been in place for probably no more than a matter of weeks . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | He could see that the flap of cloth gaped open , but in the dark could make out no more than the vague shape of her legs , her stomach . |
26 | He strained his eyes but could make out no more than the vague outline of Ngo Van Loc 's face in the darkness . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Dent Town is really no more than a village , although it may not be prudent to say so in the hearing of the residents . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |