Example sentences of "no more than [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as for a figure , I would n't say that Mrs Bretton-Fawcett has a figure , no more than Agnes here has one , because they are both like drainpipes … ’ |
| 2 | It became increasingly difficult for assistance from outside to reach the nationalists , and their united front with the communists was no more than skin deep , but even so the Japanese could not extract a surrender . |
| 3 | His flute-playing , the vast quantity of bad French poetry he wrote , his friendship with Voltaire ( carefully advertised but when put to the test no more than skin deep ) impressed many contemporaries and have impressed some historians . |
| 4 | Realistically , there may be little prospect of making better progress than this so long as the systems themselves remain largely no more than promises rather than commercially available products . |
| 5 | Points out that even though no more than week long , seemed to last approx. 2000 years given their children with talent for running away from home/eating razor blades/climbing into boot of car to die/vomiting continuously/fighting with our children in between asthma bouts . |
| 6 | Tom played a bad shot out of the bunker , and he does no more than charge straight at this press guy . |
| 7 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 8 | The little boy was settled into a continuous breath-jerking crying , his eyes no more than slits now . |