Example sentences of "have no [adj] than a " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 ) .
3 He has no more than a 5050 chance . ’
4 But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect .
5 one would expect a large variation in the fluency with which teachers can instruct in sign language ; many would have had no more than a relatively short course .
6 I knew Malpass would have had no more than a fleeting glimpse of them , but just to be sure , I went behind the bar and found an empty crisp box .
7 Any non-party candidate will have a very small chance of being elected and if , surprisingly , he is elected , he will have no more than a minute chance of exercising significant influence in the House .
8 Because the subcutaneous heparin regimen in GISSI-2 was delayed , it could have no more than a moderate effect on activated partial thromboplastin time .
9 In this instance it is wise to have no more than a 4-inch drop on the indicator and sit with your hand hovering over the rod .
10 There 's something odd there , sir , but we 've no more than a whiff of what it was .
11 When the 1976 championship year began for Hunt , he was driving a car with which he had no more than a nodding acquaintance .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 It had no more than a skeletal structure and embraced liberals as well as socialists .
15 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 " .
16 Some broken bones have no more than a hairline crack in them , but this is enough to cause your withdrawal from competition , regardless of the stage you are at .
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