Example sentences of "[adv] [art] more than [art] " in BNC.

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1 He was moved and promising miracles , the recovery of things lost , the wholeness and holiness of things profaned ; but the faith she had professed was perhaps no more than a conviction that the star of the Prince of Aberffraw would not fail him , and that God would humour him and not cheat him of the fulfilment of his vow .
2 His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right .
3 Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge .
4 Some physicians devalue dietary therapy for Type 2 diabetes by either commencing oral therapy concomitantly with diet or by giving diet alone no more than a month 's trial .
5 So no more than a canter was practicable , and even so Ramsay , peering urgently , was much concerned with possible upset and consequent break-up of the formation , if not worse .
6 [ music ] But as this music fades into the Interlude the E/F figure is suddenly no more than a detail in the seascape , a gull 's cry perhaps or a slight turbulence on the water [ 3 ] .
7 However , her categorisation is unprincipled in the sense that it does not really relate types of metaphor to each other , and is thus no more than a typology of poetic examples .
8 The shuttle was already no more than a streak of silver .
9 But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left .
10 But it is still no more than a performance .
11 Psepha was suddenly rising gracefully , the afternoon sunlight gleaming off wings that were still no more than a golden film .
12 It begins just after Gregory King 's population estimate in 1695 of 5.3 million ( Glass 1965a ) ; possibly no more than the medieval peak .
13 Luckily they were usually no more than a few feet deep .
14 Yet these examples , too , are significant , for they underline the unfortunate truth that the production and distribution of books to primary schools are important enough , financially , to attract the very largest species of shark against whom the professional at the ministry or in the centre ( who is usually no more than an average sized fish ) has little redress .
15 The never-ending rounds of golf and cocktail circuits ostensibly develop excellent customer relations but these are effectively no more than a veneer of sincerity iii the rude pursuit of the fast sale .
16 For one thing , some Dip.HE courses are effectively no more than the first two years of a degree course , with the added minor advantage that a student can if he wishes leave after two years with an award .
17 Even so , a significant number of takeover bids were probably no more than a form of corporate conspicuous consumption .
18 It was probably no more than a daring exaggeration of the ‘ donkey-fringe ’ style which was the standard Hooligan haircut .
19 It was barely more than a flash impression and the man was turning and the light was n't at all good ; and besides , he pretty much resembled a pig anyway , so the effect was probably no more than a moment 's mistake .
20 And yet the thing had been in place for probably no more than a matter of weeks .
21 Attached to the Palace at Hailing in medieval times was the Bishop 's or Church Prison , mainly used for detaining those accused of lesser crimes such as debt and was probably no more than a cell or a building without windows but lit from a small skylight .
22 Craning and peering , they caught glimpses of a minor forest of lances and standards , though the number of riders was probably no more than a score ; and rumour on rumour flew down the street before them , and name on name .
23 Sasbach is really no more than a scatter of houses , a couple of shops , a garage and a church set down in the middle of vineyards and orchards .
24 Dent Town is really no more than a village , although it may not be prudent to say so in the hearing of the residents .
25 This was really no more than a collage of bits and pieces of archive film , intercut with brief interviews , for which I wrote and narrated a restrained but admiring commentary .
26 Ryle 's positive point , in his Royal Institute of philosophy lecture , that Le Penseur 's thinking is to be understood in terms of that of the tennis player , is different from Wittgenstein 's positive point , in 88 to 136 or thereabouts , but particularly in 100–103 , which might now be expressed by saying that ‘ I thought … ’ is like ‘ I meant … ’ ( see above ) , though this way of putting it is really no more than a hint as to his meaning .
27 For his concept of ‘ interpellation ’ fails to explain the mechanism by which subjects are constituted , and is really no more than a redescription of its own result .
28 ‘ Did you now ? ’ said Hilary , coming in to the sick bay , which was really no more than a scruffy little room with only a slight hospital smell about it to bespeak its function .
29 He watched the young nun usher his two companions away and allowed Lady Amelia to take him into the small chamber , really no more than a cell with a table , stool and truckle bed .
30 Judge Angus Stroyan QC said : ‘ This was no doubt an extremely unpleasant few seconds for the girl but really no more than a drunken antic .
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