Example sentences of "no more than [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no evidence of more than 2 emission from the shell and no more than 1 from the central source . |
| 2 | And as long as you rent out no more than one-third of your property , your MIRAS ( mortgage interest tax relief ) is not affected . |
| 3 | It is not easy to engage in discussion with someone who regards other opinions as no more than symptomatic of the way a bourgeois intellectual thinks under late capitalism . |
| 4 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 5 | Now they would pay no more than that on a meal for two . ’ |
| 6 | His demonstration nowadays satisfies us no more than that of Descartes . |
| 7 | With their broader streets and freshly painted houses they might appear to be so , but , as Engels remarked , those streets were often unpaved and lacked a sewer , the paint was bound to fade within a decade , and their apparent solidity of build would then be revealed as no more than that of bricks laid end to end . |
| 8 | I think we 'd be er prepared to accept this at , what 's asked for is a feasibility study , no more than that in the first instance and I think we 'd be prepared to accept . |
| 9 | Indeed , the slope was no more than gentle for some way back along the line by which they had come ; but he had been preoccupied with the idea of danger in the open and had not noticed the change . |
| 10 | ‘ No more than usual in a prison this size , ’ the Governor answered without looking at the other man . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's no more than any of them deserve . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ No , you 're not an angel , no more than any of us . |
| 13 | Their fates concern us in reality no more than those of other independent states which were never British dominions . |
| 14 | It is a category , as we have seen , which encompasses a range of disabilities from Down 's syndrome ( whose victims may even learn to read or write ) to microcephaly ( where the manifestations of life are no more than those of a vegetable ) and these differences are usually of account . |
| 15 | If externalism is a sound stance , then the argument from error is irrelevant ; for it does no more than elaborate on a defective ( though traditional ) approach to epistemology or if it does more , it succeeds only in showing how that defective approach must lead to scepticism . |
| 16 | The bill 's supporters , most of whom were Democrats , insisted that it did no more than enshrine into law the rights already guaranteed in Roe v. Wade , the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling which had established the principle of legal abortion in the USA . |
| 17 | In the screen of language the words that make him up are no more than some amongst many , a detail in the pattern , as a grotesque might be in early painting , or the straight man in a comic duo . |
| 18 | Cut off two , inch long pieces of gummed tape and , moistening no more than one-quarter of an inch on each strip , stick them on the top edge of your cartridge paper by holding the brown paper hinges and give it a good shake . |
| 19 | The one or two well-to-do tanners identified in the subsidy rolls were so scattered , and formed so small a part of the population , that the contribution of leather working to the local economy can have been no more than marginal at best . |
| 20 | In this respect , a famously offensive passage by Rousseau on the education of girls may be seen as , after all , no more than realistic for period and place : recommending that girls be taught to break off games they are enjoying to return to work without complaint , he writes : |
| 21 | But in having to work together they are doing no more than thousands of couples and millions of professional people who may not like each other but who understand that there are times when they must look positive . |
| 22 | Do n't be surprised if you retain no more than half of what is said at your first lectures . |
| 23 | The following work carried out ( or directly and actively supervised ) : ( a ) either at least 60 personal injury instructions in the 5 years prior to the application or at least 36 personal injury instructions in the 3 years prior to the application — in either case , no more than half of the instructions should be in medical negligence cases ; ( b ) at least one personal injury case where the award or settlement was approved by the court because the plaintiff was under a disability , eg a child ; and ( c ) at least ten cases set down and ready for trial , of which at least two must have involved a dispute over liability . |
| 24 | Erm , we feel very strongly about this that there should be a balance of power with the employer nominating no more than half of the trustees . |
| 25 | What we can be sure of is that Tangshan rates as no more than third in the cataclysmic league . |