Example sentences of "[be] no more than [adv] " in BNC.

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1 There are no more than about 300 complaints to the Lay Observer each year and it is rare for the Lay Observer to criticize The Law Society 's handling of a complaint .
2 They are no more than about 20% efficient .
3 Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience .
4 If only some can be verified , the non-observation statement will be no more than weakly verifiable .
5 The search must be no more than reasonably required for the purposes of discovering such evidence and there must be reasonable grounds for believing that such evidence will be found .
6 What F writes need be no more than barely ‘ understandable ’ , provided that he throws in from time to time some ‘ historical terminology ’ , which he need not necessarily understand , nor use appropriately .
7 Looking ahead , the price by the year 2000 was expected to be no more than about $50 per tonne .
8 Furthermore , in those cases where these events are allowed to have a probability of I , that is no more than logically consistent with their being necessitated .
9 My concern Madam Deputy Speaker is whether we 're all being hoodwinked into believing that deregulation bill is opening a new chapter in our legislative history when in fact it 's no more than perhaps a weasel word describing one thing but er er another thing is happening .
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