Example sentences of "no [det] than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been capped by the well publicised current appearance of no less than Rain Man ( Warner ) for sale ( £14.99 ) as well as for rent , when hitherto the two spheres have tacitly been regarded as mutually exclusive . |
| 2 | They were proceeding at no more than walking pace past the numerous hut-like structures around the perimeter of the Barracks , and Denis kept his gaze resolutely in front of him . |
| 3 | Unless those constitutional proposals are properly , fully and adequately addressed in a manner that both this House and the other place can accept , they are no more than pipe dreams . |
| 4 | When the Minister announced the scheme I described the measures as ’ no more than damage limitation measures . |
| 5 | Professor John Boardman , for instance , Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at Oxford University , recently shocked an audience of classicists by claiming that : ‘ The exploits of Theseus , the ancient Greek hero who tamed the Minotaur and repulsed the Amazon invasion of Attica , were probably no more than state propaganda invented to rouse nationalistic pride ’ and were ‘ manufactured to glorify the role of Athens in the Ionian revolt of 499 BC ’ ( Times Higher Educational Supplement 7.8.81 ) . |
| 6 | It may be argued that these proposals amount to no more than state capitalism . |
| 7 | Well , the cape would do no more than implicate Putt in the rape of the gipsy girl and it seems she 's married and gone . |
| 8 | The County Council has been very active in trying to find a way forward which retains the objective of relieving the A ten eighty eight of lorries , but reduces the rat run in through the small villages using what are no more than country lanes . |
| 9 | Bear in mind that most of the ‘ highways ’ leading out of medieval London were no more than bridle paths . |
| 10 | These are no more than substitution notes decorating the main harmonies . |
| 11 | But fresh controversy arose after the Scottish Office said discussions with industry indicated that the tolls would , at most , be no more than ferry fares — currently £3.80 for a car . |
| 12 | But unlike those Marxists who conceive of the mass media as no more than relay systems working on behalf of the dominant classes , some have forcefully argued that systems of maintenance and reproduction do not necessarily operate smoothly ; there are contradictions , there is social and political dissent and there is political struggle . |
| 13 | Some trial and error should eliminate the laziest papers , whose critics do no more than pillage catalogue introductions , or even press releases . |
| 14 | Certainly no American text of the sort I am discussing was ever written for black people — no more than Uncle Tom 's Cabin was written for Uncle Tom to read or be persuaded by . |
| 15 | The Spirit 's steering is sharp and super-sensitive , requiring no more than finger-tip control , in stark contrast to the Vauxhall that always feels meaty and firm , yet with a touch of on-centre slack . |
| 16 | This view of acting behaviour as no more than role function has taken us a long time to understand . |
| 17 | Conditions at sea were well known to be squalid and comfortless , wages beggarly , food too often no more than salt beef and weevilly biscuit , while officers were often no more than petty tyrants . |
| 18 | The technologies involved , however , are no more than delivery methods , platforms on which new kinds of information products can be built . |
| 19 | Logistic units will be established well forward , with resupply aircraft landing on ‘ dirt strips ’ , Which in reality are no more than fiat fields . |
| 20 | Most of the buildings seen from the airport appeared to be no more than mud huts , although there were some larger buildings of brick and rough stone . |
| 21 | One candidate is the building just inside the north gate at Thorpe-by-Newark , identifiable on the aerial photographs as a much bolder outline than any other structure in the town.58 Excavation has revealed a long rectangular structure , constructed with substantial walls , but no more than mud floors , which was divided longitudinally into two very unequal parts by an internal wall ( see figs. 91 and 92 ) . |
| 22 | Just as the great majority of stations in the United States and Canada , particularly in the earlier period , were no more than frame sheds , so thousands of stations in Africa and Asia were very simple buildings indeed . |
| 23 | Mr Khasbulatov meanwhile reiterated that the Supreme Soviet — the smaller standing parliament chosen from the ranks of Congress — would do no more than pass legislation and monitor observance of the constitution and the law . |
| 24 | The Chancellor 's admission that the PSBR will reach £50 billion in 1993 is no more than City economists were bandying around last autumn . |
| 25 | Trains often ran down main streets and early stations were sometimes no more than street corners . |
| 26 | The IRA regards both as no more than gangster bands . |