Example sentences of "[verb] [art] more than a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Perhaps Somalia has more in common with Chad , another desert full of warlords , where the toppling of one gang by another caused no more than a bit of looting last month . |
| 32 | Before World War II , as Drucker relates , ‘ all the books on management filled no more than a modest shelf ’ . |
| 33 | But when your father has been murdered the day you make only the fourth televised maximum break , when you win your first major title and receive a hero 's reception on returning to your native land , even the prospect of meeting Hendry is going to cause no more than a flutter of the eyelid . |
| 34 | He reached for Freddy , and with what seemed no more than a flick of his wrist pitched him across the foyer . |
| 35 | The device which I call a Wurly costs no more than a standard pump to run . |
| 36 | Hewlett Packard has launched the LaserJet 4 , a 600 dots per inch network printer which sets new standards for print quality and ease of use , and yet costs no more than a current LaserJet 3 . |
| 37 | Yet Gemma had shown no more than a polite interest in Almsmead while Linnet , who was very dear but not Gemma , after all , had positively thrown herself into all the excitements of housebuilding and furnishing , taking to Far Flatley as if she had been born there . |
| 38 | They themselves face no more than a trifling penalty if caught . |
| 39 | Surely , to apply the label ‘ manslaughter ’ to the conduct of a person who envisaged no more than a common assault , e. g. by a single punch , is both disproportionate and unfair . |
| 40 | Loverboy tries hard to be hilarious , but raises no more than a few laughs . |
| 41 | A last uneasy look at the chief inspector told him his visitor was genuinely interested , paying no more than a routine call . |
| 42 | But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect . |
| 43 | one would expect a large variation in the fluency with which teachers can instruct in sign language ; many would have had no more than a relatively short course . |
| 44 | I knew Malpass would have had no more than a fleeting glimpse of them , but just to be sure , I went behind the bar and found an empty crisp box . |
| 45 | But to assert that is by definition to assert no more than a certain independent conditional-roughly , that since the circumstance existed , even if most other things had been different , the effect would still have occurred . |
| 46 | The view is also heard that the suburban bureau staffed by middle-class middle-aged women wearing twin-sets and pearls can provide no more than a signposting agency and can not provide the in-depth advice , casework and tribunal representation that full-time paid staff can . |
| 47 | Over the years the Ladies ' Minutes , whilst complete , give no more than a glimpse of the main Club 's activity , but it can be deduced that clubhouse alterations were made in 1914 and again in 1920 at which period the course was also altered . |
| 48 | The system , located below the outfall from the hotel 's septic tank and apparently comprising no more than a marshy , plant-filled hollow , blends easily into the informal garden . |
| 49 | The boy showed no more than a formal interest in her . |
| 50 | The only way of addressing that differently , if indeed the guideline is strictly applied , and you 're required to identify no more than a net increase of six hundred and forty thousand in ninety five , six , the second year of this programme , then you would have to put in additional line of further savings as yet to be identified . |
| 51 | Henceforth the local , stable community where relationships were both personal and persistent became no more than a rarity in the modern world . |
| 52 | None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) . |
| 53 | In some cases the tube connecting the bag to the gut became no more than a solid thread . |
| 54 | With the collapse of the Seamen 's United all thoughts of a national organisation became no more than a pipe dream . |
| 55 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 56 | And old man Verne-Smith and his wife , he knew , lived no more than a mile away , but them he avoided out of simple antipathy . |
| 57 | In fact , financial targets might be seen as equivalent to constraints imposed by shareholders in a public company who require dividends of a certain level ( or indeed as related to constraints on regulated companies who must earn no more than a certain return on capital ; see chapter 5 ) . |
| 58 | This was reflected in the prices paid for the average in-calf and maiden heifer , which at times made no more than a good commercial first-calver at Carlisle . |
| 59 | Though they were much used in Baroque times for aria accompaniment , they have largely fallen out of use , and as the chaconne construction is an art and study in itself we can make no more than a passing mention here . |
| 60 | They had travelled no more than a few hundred yards — the Kurd leading , Miss Logan bringing up the rear — and were crossing a patch of rough scree , a descent more tiring than dangerous , when Miss Fergusson fell . |