Example sentences of "no [det] than [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The 4,400 attendance was no less than the sides deserved .
2 All desire bears its histories , the desires of the exploited and the repressed no less than the desires of those who exploit and repress .
3 The net tangible assets of the Business are at the date of this Agreement and will pending Completion be no less than at the Balance Sheet Date and the profits of the Business from the Balance Sheet Date to the date of this Agreement and pending Completion are and will be proportionately no less than the profits for the previous financial year .
4 Now , in the summer of 1837 , he would understand the origins no less than the extinctions of species through appropriate comparisons and contrasts between sexual and asexual generation .
5 She began to understand how the bleak vision she had been shown was no more and no less than the extremes to which such powers might go if once they lost touch with the exactions of a loving heart .
6 No less than the Jews , they became thc natural targets of his invective .
7 She looked good in country clothes as well ; in fact she looked pretty damned good all round , and right now it was the world 's greatest pisser that he was no more than a rough-at-the-edges motor mechanic whose chances with her had to rate at somewhere close to zero .
8 These were places where at the beginning of the century there was no more than a Mechanics ' Institute or a Lit. and Phil. ; and these new institutions were more oriented to science than the ancient ones , and committed on the German model to research .
9 But this was no more than a politeness with little political meaning , and one which disappeared , though slowly , during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries .
10 The present occupant may say ‘ Oh well , I let old Mrs Smith walk through my garden and down the sideway when she needs to ’ and regard it as no more than a neighbours ' agreement .
11 From the conference of Berchtesgaden in November 1937 to the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938 , from the increasingly threatening noises over Czechoslovakia in March 1938 to the abdication of Munich in September 1938 , from the last-ditch , desperate attempts to cobble together a tripartite agreement in May 1939 to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact in August 1939 , there was a sense of deathly inevitability compared to which Nizan 's repeated calls for collective security appear as no more than the efforts of a man crying in the wilderness .
12 And when Stuart nodded in Wise 's free-kick , it was no more than the Londoners deserved .
13 Thus crime statistics are produced by the police and the courts and they represent no more than the opinions of the individuals involved .
14 4.3 The above forecasts shall be given by the Company to the Supplier on the basis that they are for information only , and , while the Company will exercise all reasonable care in their compilation , the Company shall be under no obligation ( legal or otherwise ) to order all or any of or no more than the quantities shown in the said forecasts .
15 There is nothing penal about Augusta 's design — there is no thick rough off the edge of the fairways or around the fringes of the greens , the bunkering is minimal , the fairways generous , and although there is a fair sprinkling of water hazards , it is certainly no more than the players come across practically every week on the Tour .
16 If so , the power of critics may be no more than the listings services offered in the papers or on posters , while real power can be found in the organisation of the art market .
17 That looks incompatible with gaucherie , and perhaps is , but it represents no more than the incompatibilities that individuals daily enact in their own lives .
18 Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa .
19 These discoveries would not be very difficult to make nowadays , but with no more than the techniques of the time , each was a great achievement .
20 The ‘ fact ’ of the first premiss covers all and no more than the facts awareness of which would modify spontaneous reactions to the issue in question ; ‘ Face facts ’ will be applicable to the issue only within the scope of this information .
21 Eyes ‘ moving no more than the eyes of a corpse … follow me like a pair of jailers …
22 Titmuss 's concept of society as an organic entity is , for market liberals , simply metaphysics : society is no more than the individuals and families who make it up .
23 Quite possibly , however , the fluctuations may be no more than the results of random changes in atmospheric activity which , occasionally , bring large deviations from normal conditions .
24 For all other primary tasks performed by the system no more than the results of one working day of processing will be lost in the event of processing error or power failure .
25 If no more than the contents of medium silt , fine silt or clay are required , aliquots may be withdrawn after the appropriate time intervals and the relative abundance calculated from differences in weights of suspension in each .
26 The simple realism of any characters in the fabliaux is very limited : often no more than the characters being given recognizable and common social functions .
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