Example sentences of "no more than [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man is capable of a measure of creativity and mutual co-operation of which history has witnessed no more than the faintest inkling . |
| 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 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 4 | On occasion , zones will be requested to submit notional breakdowns on their expenditure for the forthcoming year , but such submissions are often no more than the haziest guides to real expenditure . |
| 5 | So it had been quite refreshing when Luke had said goodbye with no more than the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek . |
| 6 | There is a Nazi in everyone , so schoolmaster Golding suggests , and there since childhood ; and civilisation is no more than the thinnest of thin veneers , as Hitler showed , masking a base , innate craving to rule and be ruled . |
| 7 | At home , on both wings of her Cabinet , are ministers who regard green politics as no more than the latest fad ; the election will not be won by fighting on the beaches , in the air , and in the green belts , but once again in the pockets of the people , is their view . |
| 8 | At home they propagate a mythological aura about their secret sales expertise , often no more than the latest gimmicks applied to age-old techniques . |