Example sentences of "[conj] no more [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4.3 The above forecasts shall be given by the Company to the Supplier on the basis that they are for information only , and , while the Company will exercise all reasonable care in their compilation , the Company shall be under no obligation ( legal or otherwise ) to order all or any of or no more than the quantities shown in the said forecasts . |
| 2 | British officials said that no more than a quarter of the meeting had been taken up with the ‘ general issues ’ raised by the Chinese . |
| 3 | Conversely , evidence that no more than a modest quantity of water has been lost comes from considering the fate of oxygen liberated . |
| 4 | On housing ‘ it is not in general desirable to seek to control the disposal of private houses through planning restrictions ’ ; on industry and commerce ‘ policies and proposals … should promote and not hinder the regeneration of industry and reflect an up to date and realistic view of the scale , pattern and diversity of industry ’ ; on retail development ‘ policies and proposals should neither seek to regulate competition between retailers nor to stifle the evolution of new forms of retail provision ’ ; and on agriculture and forestry ‘ authorities should take account of the need to ensure that no more than an essential minimum of agricultural land is diverted to development ’ . |
| 5 | That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus . |
| 6 | AFTER months of ministerial indecision , the Government 's formula for restoring confidence in Hong Kong emerged last night to a mixed response from a bitterly divided House of Commons — and no more than a guarded welcome from the colony itself . |
| 7 | Most of this level is involved in the physical functioning of our bodies — breathing , circulation , heartbeat and so on — and no more than a quarter is available for dealing with our conscious thought processes . |
| 8 | The typical large business 20 years hence will have fewer than half the levels of management of its counterpart today , and no more than a third the managers . |
| 9 | Providing that the catfish is avoided , and no more than a total of 15 cm ( 6 in ) length fish is introduced for every 0.09 square metre ( square foot ) of the surface area of the water , excluding the marginal areas , then few problems should be encountered . |
| 10 | First a request , and no more than a request , for an amendment to the order or some sort of assurance concerning its implementation ; these tend to be few in number . |
| 11 | To the rapid , repetitive beat two glistening bodies were contorting themselves into an impossible position , their backs horizontal to the floor and no more than a foot from it . |
| 12 | The ‘ fact ’ of the first premiss covers all and no more than the facts awareness of which would modify spontaneous reactions to the issue in question ; ‘ Face facts ’ will be applicable to the issue only within the scope of this information . |
| 13 | For taxpayers , there are the building society TESSAs which allow interest to be credited gross , so long as the original capital remains untouched for five years and no more than the net interest is withdrawn . |
| 14 | The following succession of chords necessitates a change from A to A ♯ and no more if the harp is set to the notes D , E ♯ , F ♯ , G ♯ , A , B ♯ , C ♯ , for they are then written thus : |
| 15 | If no more than the contents of medium silt , fine silt or clay are required , aliquots may be withdrawn after the appropriate time intervals and the relative abundance calculated from differences in weights of suspension in each . |
| 16 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 17 | After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself . |
| 18 | That slight stiffness I mentioned earlier takes a little getting used to , but no more than a slightly eager clutch , say , in a new car . |
| 19 | There is some slight degree of foundation for this remark , but no more than a slight degree . |
| 20 | The three of them began to creep slowly down the hill , moving from tree to tree , but no more than a few yards at a time . |
| 21 | Once this alienation had set in , it was inevitable that , as in our day , the loved one should come to be regarded — at least by the conscious mind — as no more than a body to be disposed of as quickly and hygienically as possible . |
| 22 | The travellers regarded their inn , The Ship ( long eroded ) , as no more than a functional staging-post , an ill-mannered house , too , run by William Driver — an Englishman , as Boswell pointed out to Johnson with some glee . |
| 23 | So he had moved away from Jewtown to a considerably larger and more imposing semi-detached house in Blackrock — a suburb which , though no more than a mile beyond Celtic Crescent , was undeniably middle-class and rising . |
| 24 | He 'd gone when no more than a lad , |