Example sentences of "[vb past] no [det] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
| 32 | The caravan journey lasted no more than a mile . |
| 33 | When the 1976 championship year began for Hunt , he was driving a car with which he had no more than a nodding acquaintance . |
| 34 | But at 30 Hick was not given the benefit of the doubt when lbw to a Cairns ball which had no more than a 50–50 chance of hitting the top of the leg stump . |
| 35 | Old Foresters , a team of former Public Schoolboys , won three years running from 1885 to 87 and Ilford repeated the act between 1988 and 1990 when the manager had no more than a large village to select his players from . |
| 36 | It had no more than a skeletal structure and embraced liberals as well as socialists . |
| 37 | The death sentences were commuted at the end of 1849 , but only when the prisoners had arrived at the place of execution and been led to believe , as Dostoevsky put it , that they " had no more than a minute left to live " . |
| 38 | It is true that the Attorney-General 's Reference did not confront these particular issues directly , and the Lord Chief Justice perhaps intended no more than a sweeping reference to other kindred situations . |
| 39 | As far as the actual content of the education was concerned , the employers wanted no more than a solid , old fashioned grounding in ‘ the basics ’ and that ‘ bright pupils ’ should be positively encouraged to seek jobs in the industrial sector rather than in the academic world or public services . |
| 40 | Bernard took the matter of the offending questionnaire to the union forthwith : the local dispute quickly turned national : Bernard spoke to the press , rallied his colleagues ; but alas , all too many wanted no more than a quiet life : Bernard confided that sometimes he had to eat alone in the staff dining room . |