Example sentences of "[vb base] no more than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political references seem no more than accoutrements , just another part of the decor of the period . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They constitute no more than pointers towards an agenda for more detailed , empirical research . |
| 4 | Most sporting methods do no more than cream off a proportion of the rabbit stock , but ferreting , to my mind , is the ultimate . |
| 5 | Some trial and error should eliminate the laziest papers , whose critics do no more than pillage catalogue introductions , or even press releases . |
| 6 | On average we consume about 12g a day ; ordinary individuals need no more than 3–5g . |
| 7 | For research focused on formal aspects of code switching , much of the interest lies in the process whereby two widely divergent grammatical systems are made compatible in such a way that switching is possible between them : hence researchers in this area have mainly concentrated on pairs of languages that have no more than chance ( or universal ) similarities . |