Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] no more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're really down , are n't you ? – said Felix 's wife , who had come in with a jar of instant coffee and a jug of water no more than fairly hot , which increased Stephen 's worry that many things were falling behind . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If he is of a poetic turn of mind , will he even see a kind of justice in the eventual return to silicon-based life , with DNA no more than an interlude , albeit one that lasted longer than three aeons ? |
| 4 | These three specific types of item that should be shown separately on the face of the p&l account after operating profit and before interest are : profits or losses on the sale or termination of an operation ; costs of a fundamental reorganisation or restructuring having a material effect on the nature and focus of the reporting entity 's operations ; and profits or losses on the disposal of fixed assets ( although not those profits or losses that are in effect no more than marginal adjustments to depreciation previously charged ) . |
| 5 | In total no more than a few dozen local groups existed at different times in the 1840s and 1850s . |
| 6 | In total no more than " 30 to 50 " were buried locally . |
| 7 | Their fates concern us in reality no more than those of other independent states which were never British dominions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | THE SMALL £5 in the corner ( as in pay no more than ) is a good introduction to Sofa Head 's second album , and inside it shrewdly builds on the foundations set by last year 's ‘ Pre Marital Yodelling ’ . |
| 12 | THE SMALL £5 in the corner ( as in pay no more than ) is a good introduction to Sofa Head 's second album , and inside it shrewdly builds on the foundations set by last year 's ‘ Pre Marital Yodelling ’ . |
| 13 | The ‘ best ’ rooms have chimney-pieces picked out in a canny false-stone effect ( in fact no more than mortar ) or else ornamented by rubbed and painted bricks . |
| 14 | And we do not charge the earth — in fact no more than a good quality single or double ‘ standard ’ bed . |