Example sentences of "[pers pn] [art] more [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Moreover I have given order that they who collect my dues take from you no more than the tenth , because so it is appointed by the custom of the Moors , and it is what ye have been wont to pay . |
2 | In the West , the time of retirement for many people is the end of their usefulness and it means for them no more than a hopeless waiting for them . |
3 | Many , indeed , had already been dispossessed , since emigrants from Germany were permitted to take with them no more than a nominal ten Reichsmarks . |
4 | Its object was to reduce disparity in sentences of imprisonment , and to remove the difficulty which judges faced when Parliament had told them no more than the maximum sentence for a particular crime : see Reflections on the English Sentencing System by Professor Sir Rupert Cross , Child & Co . |
5 | Herbert told me that his government , saddened by so many post-war feature films in which heroic Allies and horrid Nazis went on refighting old battles ( to me no more than the modern equivalent of cowboys and Indians ) was much impressed by the non-partisan nature of my films and books , and intended to give public expression of their approval . |
6 | It might benefit him the more if the money were to be withheld until he is older . |
7 | He liked to live in company with another ; Bo-Bo had only negative virtues but , he had to admit , he would be lonely when she died , and the doctors gave her no more than a year . |
8 | She gave him no more than a perfunctory ‘ So glad you could come , ’ before passing him on to her husband . |
9 | It took him no more than a few seconds of the exchange to decide which voice was Kemp 's . |
10 | His response to a Christian who might approach him with the request to convert to Hinduism would be to urge him to try to be a good Christian since the Gītā could offer him no more than the Bible . |
11 | So it just skips past B , giving it no more than a quick glance , and takes up C. |
12 | Cadfael felt it , but thought it no more than the tension of the sortes . |
13 | It left us no more than a 7-iron into the green . |
14 | I think Cowslip 's told us no more than the truth . |
15 | The same problem of interpretation arises from any use of manorial records , probably the best available documentary source ; these can tell us no more than the number of holdings which fell vacant on particular estates and throw no light on mortality among landless persons . |