Example sentences of "[vb -s] no more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The left-hand foliage pendant which once hung above the west door of the King 's Drawing Room bore the brunt of the flames and only two tiny fragments of the original 7ft drop survive ; a couple of limewood crocus heads no more than an inch and a half across . |
| 2 | ‘ When a mathematician proves some proposition you had not known , he accomplishes no more than a man who discloses the contents of a casket … by opening it up . ’ |
| 3 | And , as we shall see , one who has mere possession at the date of the conversion can generally sue , and so can one who has no more than a right to possess . |
| 4 | If a tenant takes only an upper floor of a building and has no more than a right to use the entrance hall for the purposes of approaching the property demised he must stipulate for the right to put a nameplate outside the property ( other than that part demised to him ) if he desires this convenience ( Berry ( Frederick ) Ltd v Royal Bank of Scotland [ 1949 ] 1 KB 619 per Lord Goddard CJ at 621 ) . |
| 5 | He has no more than a 5050 chance . ’ |
| 6 | We know of one prolific kite-maker , whose kites are marketed everywhere , who uses no more than a sharp knife of the ‘ snap-off ’ type to cut dozens of panels in a laminated pack around a metal template . |
| 7 | The device which I call a Wurly costs no more than a standard pump to run . |
| 8 | Hewlett Packard has launched the LaserJet 4 , a 600 dots per inch network printer which sets new standards for print quality and ease of use , and yet costs no more than a current LaserJet 3 . |
| 9 | Loverboy tries hard to be hilarious , but raises no more than a few laughs . |
| 10 | The latter assertion represents no more than a pious belief , since Sukenick 's text repeatedly fragments itself into short phrasal units , disparate narrative strands , and oddly shifting ‘ characters ’ . |
| 11 | Firstly , it represents no more than a proposal for reform of the internal structure of the public company and not an accurate description of how the board at present functions in such a company . |
| 12 | Although this may well be a valuable facility , it really forms no more than an appendage to the database , since we can not search a videodisc image for details within it in the way we can search text . |
| 13 | Many an interesting find requires no more than a wet hand and a sharp pair of eyes . |
| 14 | " To make a common practical Sailor requires no more than a natural Inclination to the Sea , and a sturdy healthy Constitution . |
| 15 | LIFE IS THE SEARCH for the dish that tantalizes , draws oohs and aahs of appreciation from your dinner guests , and takes no more than a quick yo heave ho to knock together . |
| 16 | It seems no more than a charming anecdote , but when Professor Davie cites Bunting 's tale in Under Briggflatts , his history of British poetry since 1960 , he calls the incident ‘ challenging ’ . |
| 17 | The proposal seems no more than a window dressing exercise . |
| 18 | Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface . |
| 19 | This finding is open to the criticism that it reflects no more than a difference between the two phenomena in their sensitivity — that the procedure in question disrupts some process common to both phenomena and that the latent inhibition procedure provides a more sensitive measure of this disruption than does the habituation procedure . |
| 20 | The little details she slips in become almost unbearable : a teenage boy who weighs no more than a wooden Buddha ; a fisherwoman raging at the routine indignities of being in a hospital bed . |
| 21 | The two brain regions are quite small — dissected out , each weighs no more than a couple of milligrams — and Andras invented a special plastic mould into which we could drop the brain , slice slabs out with a razor blade and then use a fine scalpel to cut round the regions , guiding the dissection under a microscope . |
| 22 | ‘ The basic level of social work and social care training pays no more than a passing eye to the kind of skills we need to develop in care management . |
| 23 | For some this means no more than a trip to the supermarket and a loading-up of the metal basket ; for others it means being lost on a plain in Greece , in the dark , in snow , in the rain , and finding what you seek only by some rare trick such as barking like a dog . |
| 24 | Gradually the technique develops its own style , moving away from red-figure as red-figure had early freed itself from the black figure tradition ; only white-ground long remains no more than a sideline of red-figure painters . |
| 25 | The side kick delivered from the back foot is comparatively slow and does no more than a good front kick . |
| 26 | So , in a paper written to commemorate the life and work of Danny Lehrman , whose critical interest in ethology and psychiatry had been considerable , I argued pessimistically ( Crook 1977 a ) that an understanding of the primate behaviour I had been reviewing ‘ provides no more than a kind of educational backcloth — a reference literature for university courses on human evolution and that it can not begin to touch upon the existential issues that are the central focus of living human relations . |