Example sentences of "[vb base] no more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its study is therefore in its infancy , and the cases presented above provide no more than a glimpse of its potential interest . |
| 2 | That 's asking an awful lot of people who seek no more than a relaxing pint or two , or more especially when the Bishop pulls the first pint of the day . |
| 3 | Offending policemen frequently receive no more than a dishonourable discharge , and may resume killing in plain clothes , Mr Santos said , while some adolescents — who under Brazilian law are not criminally responsible - are also employed to kill other children . |
| 4 | Who , some calculate , will each on average receive no more than the equivalent of £500 for loss of family , loss of earnings and permanent physical damage . |
| 5 | The owner is company director Paul Scott , who says the giant painting in his entrance hall cost no more than a personalised number plate . |
| 6 | This allowed the company to crow about the new models that cost no more than the old — a favourite Ford device but by no means exclusive to the blue oval badge . |
| 7 | They themselves face no more than a trifling penalty if caught . |
| 8 | Over the years the Ladies ' Minutes , whilst complete , give no more than a glimpse of the main Club 's activity , but it can be deduced that clubhouse alterations were made in 1914 and again in 1920 at which period the course was also altered . |
| 9 | Industry , strictly defined , can be regarded as having established itself only where production so exceeded local demand as to be aimed at a wider market , for a trade might flourish and yet remain no more than a subsidiary activity , like the leather trades of the Weald of Sussex . |
| 10 | For here lay no more than a piece of meat , oblivious , inanimate , an object to be examined without reverence . |
| 11 | We know no more than the narrator , within whose obsessively observant mind we wander , searching , like him , for some sure knowledge . |
| 12 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After a few minutes dried food becomes soggy and loses its appeal , so the rule becomes : feed no more than the fish will eat in five minutes . |
| 15 | A busy place at which most tourists cast no more than a cursory glance and pass on . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now the friends form no more than a frieze , spread thin along the shore , like bread on a lake of butter . |
| 18 | Moreover , statistics collected by the Countryside Commission suggest that the overwhelming majority of visitors to the countryside venture no more than a couple of hundred yards from their car . |
| 19 | There 's something odd there , sir , but we 've no more than a whiff of what it was . |
| 20 | Gibson 's ( 1969 ) account of these effects suggests that discrimination training may not be necessary but the same conclusion can be derived from more prosaic considerations — it might be argued , for instance , that the results described so far reflect no more than a disruption in control subjects confronted by novel stimuli at the start of the test discrimination . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Some broken bones have no more than a hairline crack in them , but this is enough to cause your withdrawal from competition , regardless of the stage you are at . |
| 23 | From this disparity in rates , Professor Norman Newell deduced that these Cretaceous and Tertiary limestones represent no more than a tenth of Cretaceous and Caenozoic times . |
| 24 | Thus crime statistics are produced by the police and the courts and they represent no more than the opinions of the individuals involved . |
| 25 | According to Engels , two-thirds of its working people possess no more than a single room per family , and Roberts 's figures are even more specific : 929 families have only one room , 623 only one bed . |