Example sentences of "[noun] no more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Colonel did not stop to reassure his wife , but rose neatly , pushed his chair under his table and with swift , disciplined steps reached the terrace no more than a couple of yards behind Miss Danziger . |
| 2 | They were sweeping over the ancient continent of Africa , the everlasting wastelands of the desert no more than a patch on a great patchwork quilt . |
| 3 | Seb shouted up to tell him what had happened and it took Dolly no more than a couple of minutes to hurry downstairs and throw open the cottage door . |
| 4 | But as a case for a ‘ radical extension ’ of industrial democracy by means requiring the assumption by unreformed trade unions of rights which had hitherto attached only to ownership , it merits at this point no more than a suspended judgment at best . |
| 5 | You 'll find that in a simple case no more than a few minutes are required . |
| 6 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 7 | A stone rolled free and splashed into the water no more than a yard from Trent 's feet . |
| 8 | Blanche said little , her head no more than a deep blue profile against the window . |
| 9 | Two hours later they pushed their way out from the cover of the trees into a tiny clearing no more than a handful of yards across . |
| 10 | Under the reform individual private landholding was restricted to an area of 3 chó0 for most of the country ; of this area no more than a third could be rented out . |
| 11 | Growing in a neat upright habit no more than a metre or so across and two metres high at maturity , ‘ Yellow Hammer ’ produces a magnificent spring display of butter yellow , narrowly tubular flowers . |
| 12 | So far , I have concentrated on some of the standard aspects of prison life and routine — in some ways no more than a mirror image of other large institutions . |
| 13 | Even in 1824 , André Jullien rated the ‘ light and agreeable but weak wines ’ of Beaumont-sur-Vesle no more than a fifth growth in his five-tier ranking of Champagne . |
| 14 | In total no more than a few dozen local groups existed at different times in the 1840s and 1850s . |
| 15 | To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse — the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory ! |
| 16 | At the other extreme , the argument that extant phyla maintain their identity back to the Cambrian offers no more than a tautology . |
| 17 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 18 | It was a close result and as Seb passed the winning-post no more than a neck ahead of his nearest rival , he could hear Carrie 's shrill voice above the noise of the crowd , urging him on . |
| 19 | The swab moved across her forehead , its touch no more than a gentle brush , and suddenly she realised there was no prick attached to it . |
| 20 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 21 | While the lizard scuttles away to safety , the predator is left to discover , little by little , that its apparently succulent meal is in reality no more than a scaly scrag-end . |
| 22 | entire mass was guarded , on its left flank , by Kummer 's Army Group — in reality no more than a cavalry division , 44 infantry battalions and some artillery and bicyclists — and on the right , by the Kovess Army Group of two corps . |
| 23 | Since there appear to be no consequences in judicial practice if the label constitutional is applied to a particular law , it is in the end no more than a convenient way for textbook writers to organise their material , just as they produce books on industrial law or commercial law . |
| 24 | But once they had stepped out into the cool air , paradoxically , the noise seemed muted , the sea no more than a distant roar . |
| 25 | Some pages were long , illegible , others no more than a line . |
| 26 | each flake no more than a fingersmear |
| 27 | And we do not charge the earth — in fact no more than a good quality single or double ‘ standard ’ bed . |
| 28 | A shapeless bundle of dirty rags was in front of her , the face no more than a grey shadow . |
| 29 | And then , with his face no more than a foot from her own , she saw what was wedged in his mouth . |