Example sentences of "[v-ing] no [det] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US . |
| 2 | Left to their own devices , most roses tend to develop new growth into which they direct their sap and energy , bear bloom , and which then — as it becomes old and tired — gradually either becomes starved , by-passed , neglected and finally aborted as the plant constantly turns its attention to new growth , or it develops a barky exterior layer as it settles down to becoming no more than a main road communicating between the raw material goods received from the warehouse in the soil and the production factory upstairs — quite often , a very long way upstairs . |
| 3 | Membership of a specific group was often the product of a boss — follower relationship with one of its leading members , and thus very large groups were in danger of becoming no more than a coalition of personal factions . |
| 4 | We must accept that the bogus traveller — that is the best title to give to such a person — is seeking no more than a better life . |
| 5 | Societies of boys were what the public schools essentially remained , with the masters forming no more than a thin crust of adult authority . |
| 6 | A last uneasy look at the chief inspector told him his visitor was genuinely interested , paying no more than a routine call . |
| 7 | The system , located below the outfall from the hotel 's septic tank and apparently comprising no more than a marshy , plant-filled hollow , blends easily into the informal garden . |
| 8 | Happiness , wonderful as it is , is a transient thing , often lasting no more than a few moments . |
| 9 | The alliance should prepare for a conventional war lasting no more than a few days . |
| 10 | — Wood , paper , natural fibre , cloth , or products thereof , containing no more than a negligible amount of plastics in the product or packaging . |
| 11 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 12 | This is because it is essentially a desk exercise requiring no more than a summation of information provided against a standard requirement . |
| 13 | With as many flats as a Parisian tower block and the ‘ pits ’ affording no more than a shove out of the sand , it was 16 days before the old fort hove into view 338Km after Algiers had disappeared from the rear-view mirror . |
| 14 | The whole of the difference could be a consequence of the operation of the acquired equivalence mechanism , with the acquired distinctiveness procedure constituting no more than a neutral control procedure . |
| 15 | Standing no more than a foot high , they seldom leave their subterranean homes , for exposure to sunlight will turn them to stone . |
| 16 | The position on partial demolition , however , remained uncertain after the House of Lords case , and by degrees various church bodies began to put forward proposals for partial demolition , in some cases leaving no more than a facade or church hall , arguing that , as part of the site was to remain in ecclesiastical use , no permission to demolish was required . |
| 17 | Come back safely , ’ and when they were all specks in the distant twilight and the savage pandemonium of their leaving no more than a muted throbbing , she had sent her love high and wide so it would find her lover in that vast , uncaring sky . |
| 18 | Rebecca took the Japanese-made VHF radio , weighing no more than a bag of sugar , on her summit assault . |
| 19 | If the images are confined to a box area covering no more than a 15 or 20 per cent of the whole screen , the data volumes required are again correspondingly reduced . |