Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] more than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public authorities are creatures of statute and can do no more than the statute permits them to do . |
| 2 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
| 3 | Although he could see no more than the man 's black outline , he sensed it was a rival he was moving towards , one who saw himself as having rights in the moor , even rights of possession over it . |
| 4 | ‘ Show me , ’ whispered Wynne-Jones , but when he looked through the mask he could see no more than the darkness . |
| 5 | I myself would claim no more than the natural store of a questioning mind . ’ |
| 6 | Mark you , I said as she was too big , but they said as it could just be the water , as they could n't hear no more than the one heart . |
| 7 | However much he might desire her , she would have no more than the allotted space in his life . |
| 8 | In these egalitarian times it would take no more than the price of an off-season 's weekend bed and breakfast and the permission of a landowner or two . |
| 9 | On the LME , however , it may mean no more than the matching of positions , since LME contracts are not " closed " , in the sense of being liquidated , until their prompt date . |
| 10 | All the platinum ever mined would fill no more than the average living room . |
| 11 | ‘ Why should I want someone like you , whose squalid dreams of passion can encompass no more than the petty attentions of a man like Jones ? |