Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] no more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say no more than that . |
| 2 | ‘ I know no more than you , Corbett . |
| 3 | I say they must have got the knowledge from him somehow , by what manner of deception I know no more than you . |
| 4 | I do no more than listen to them talking . |
| 5 | My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed . |
| 6 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published , they will show you know no more than the rest " — a sentiment which T. R. Glover rather pithily describes as suggesting science declining into profession . |
| 7 | By really understanding our Buyers ' needs we cut out time wasting and abortive visits and ensure you pay no more than the correct price in this mixed market . |
| 8 | Do n't be surprised if you retain no more than half of what is said at your first lectures . |
| 9 | We know no more than the narrator , within whose obsessively observant mind we wander , searching , like him , for some sure knowledge . |
| 10 | We know no more than his two letters tell us . |
| 11 | Then we get no more until the planned development of more or less large estates in the late eighteenth-century towns — notably , of course , the spas , but also in such unlikely places as Birmingham and ( early in the nineteenth century ) Ashton-under-Lyne . |
| 12 | If , looking at the Mediterranean world from our Western and Northern viewpoint , we do no more than take note of the removal of North Africa from the scene of Latin Christianity , we shall scarcely have begun to come to grips with the size of the problem . |
| 13 | There 's something odd there , sir , but we 've no more than a whiff of what it was . |
| 14 | The reader who returns frequently to the poem , and ( in the way of obsessive readers ) delights in noticing meanings potentially nestling within meanings , will begin to be persuaded , by and by , that these hints of battle and brutality are not to be ignored ; yet they remain no more than hints , shadows of meaning cast by a powerful text . |
| 15 | However , of themselves , they offer no more than a functional approach to assessment , and therefore must be organized into a framework which is based on the principles defined above . |
| 16 | Many of these insect-feeding birds have a line of bristles around their beaks which at one time were thought to channel weakly-flying insects into the open beak but now it seems more likely that they do no more than protect the birds ' eyes as they deliberately plunge through clouds of insects . |
| 17 | They do no more than show that the legislature has not shrunk , where it has seemed appropriate , from interfering in a greater or lesser degree with the immunities grouped under the title of the right to silence . |
| 18 | They constitute no more than pointers towards an agenda for more detailed , empirical research . |
| 19 | It should be pointed out that even if the figures cited earlier are achieved , they are not overwhelming , since they constitute no more than about two years ' growth . |
| 20 | Thus crime statistics are produced by the police and the courts and they represent no more than the opinions of the individuals involved . |