Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] no more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know it did n't hurt , the paint pellet hitting and exploding with no more than a mild flick . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , a foot sweep does require a lot of power to prevent it from degenerating into no more than a shin attack . |
| 3 | They stressed UNLU 's moderate demands , calling for a two state solution , mutual recognition , direct Israeli-PLO negotiations , concluding ‘ the Palestinians are calling for no more than peace with a reasonable measure of justice . ’ |
| 4 | Yet this ‘ distraction ’ , which the Commission 's own Court of Auditors Reports have warned , costs hundreds of millions of pounds , was dismissed as accounting for no more than 0.18% of farm spending . |
| 5 | They were proceeding at no more than walking pace past the numerous hut-like structures around the perimeter of the Barracks , and Denis kept his gaze resolutely in front of him . |
| 6 | In fact , she was asking for no more than American colleges everywhere asked of their alumni , and many Americans had benefited from the Oxford system . |
| 7 | Walsh was assured that the people concerned were not French — though they were as bad — and he quickly concluded that he was dealing with no more than ‘ a mischiefuous gang of disaffected Englishmen ’ . |
| 8 | The alarm was raised by team leader Chris Bonington — who also fell 150m on steep ice as he went to Venable 's assistance , miraculously emerging with no more than a minor facial wound . |