Example sentences of "to no more [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards . |
| 2 | Along with the mingling of the genres go the other stylistic features of a rather modish postmodernism : pastiche ; montage ; paraphrase ; parody ; allusion ; quotation ; often adding up to no more than a cultivated divertissement . |
| 3 | Of course , the NME has consistently only really been as good as the contemporary music , film etc it celebrates and criticises , and remains a decent barometer , despite the sporadically desperate-seeming attempts to apply bellows to no more than a small flame . |
| 4 | Perhaps , in some unimaginably distant region , the cosmos simply melted away into Chaos without sane dimensions — so that all the immensity of physical reality , all the billions of light years of stars and galaxies without number , amounted to no more than a tiny archipelago within a dire and senseless ocean of absurdity . |
| 5 | Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd . |
| 6 | 170 it was held that the word ‘ convicted ’ in sections 9 and 12 of the Coinage Offences Act 1861 ( 24 & 25 Vict. c. 99 ) referred to no more than a finding of guilt . |
| 7 | He whispered something but so close to my ear the sound was distorted and I said , suppressing my voice to no more than a breath because it can be so harsh , ‘ Say it again . |
| 8 | This , he said , could not be characterised as having breached the duty of good faith which amounted to no more than a principle of fair and honourable dealing . |
| 9 | The most systematic study of legacies sub modo , while drawing attention to the Scaevolan cases in which trusts are construed , points out that this amounted to no more than an isolated and sporadic tendency . |
| 10 | There we said that the foundationalist 's beliefs about his sensory states , to be infallible , would have to have vanishingly small content ; in fact , to amount to no more than an incomprehensible gesture . |
| 11 | If the telephone conversation amounts to no more than an inquiry or preliminary discussion , it may be that no contract is made then . |
| 12 | Life appeared to continue largely as normal in the Libyan capital , and the warning seemed to amount to no more than the routine diplomatic tit-for-tat when countries expel each other 's envoys . |
| 13 | abolished the power of local councils to shift the burden of taxation on to local business , for the first time limiting the overall rise in business rates to no more than the rate of inflation ; |
| 14 | It would amount to no more than the patient being dragged around with maximum support , using his unaffected side to try to keep up , and holding on to his helpers for dear life . |
| 15 | According to Ekonomska politika ( 11 March 1985 ) , the creation of the self-management communities of interest has often amounted to no more than the conversion of a previous government bureau into a new organization . |
| 16 | The baselines may amount to no more than the total number of times each behaviour is noticed in a one hour session every day for a week . |
| 17 | He would prefer to see Africa 's debt obligation reduced to no more than the $10 billion it is managing to pay each year . |
| 18 | The comment that all of this prompts is first , that it amounts to no more than the well-understood case for good personnel management in conventionally organised manufacturing or service industry . |
| 19 | The farmer was a remote and authoritarian figure and personal contact was often limited to no more than the weekly payment of wages . |
| 20 | To have a federation in which one of the parts is as much as eight-tenths of the whole and the other parts amount to no more than the remaining two-tenths is almost inconceivable . |
| 21 | This " combination " which effectively amounts to no more than the adjective itself is then linked by explicit assignment to the entity of the subject . |