Example sentences of "no more than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 All that was changing when Diane Keaton appeared in Annie Hall , looking no more than passably pleasant and sporting the sort of garb you could find in any Oxfam shop .
2 Furthermore , in those cases where these events are allowed to have a probability of I , that is no more than logically consistent with their being necessitated .
3 Amiss tried to sound no more than mildly interested .
4 My essay will trace the pattern of references to other literary sources of which the author herself was sometimes no more than subliminally aware .
5 At best the programme was rated no more than moderately effective , being considered completely ineffective in respect of home-school links .
6 If only some can be verified , the non-observation statement will be no more than weakly verifiable .
7 Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience .
8 These initiatives are really no more than very small , first steps towards finding out whether CD-ROM has anything worthwhile to offer schools .
9 ‘ You 're really down , are n't you ? – said Felix 's wife , who had come in with a jar of instant coffee and a jug of water no more than fairly hot , which increased Stephen 's worry that many things were falling behind .
10 However , there were some whose role appeared to involve , apart from class teaching and standing in when the head was absent , no more than relatively low-level jobs like reporting on leaking gutters or running a tuck shop .
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