Example sentences of "with no [det] [subord] a " in BNC.

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1 The worst case was in July 1989 when an alternator set fell off at around 100mph at Harrow on the main line into Euston and caused a major derailment , fortunately with no more than a few injuries .
2 Maria Magdalena and Caribbean Queen cleared Key Canaka thirty metres apart with no more than a bowsprit between them .
3 You need to select flat water conditions with no more than a Force 3 otherwise you will be concentrating too hard on staying upright rather than thinking about the exercises .
4 My argument was that he might as well use pit-props for his fishing , for he could n't possibly gain any enjoyment from playing fish , or handling such a rod with no more than a 4lb line .
5 The toad is quickly dropped and escapes — with no more than a few minor punctures if it is lucky .
6 The ferreting season has just ended and those people with no more than a passing interest , perhaps a failed interest , will then be keen to dispose of their stock rather than feed and maintain them to the start of another season .
7 With no more than a curt nod and a : ‘ Come Phoebe ! ’ she hooked her arm through her sister 's and swept her from the kitchen .
8 The alarm was raised by team leader Chris Bonington — who also fell 150m on steep ice as he went to Venable 's assistance , miraculously emerging with no more than a minor facial wound .
9 He stepped out from the dimly-lit doorway of a sidewalk cafe to greet Ybreska with no more than a curt nod of his head .
10 We should remember that , like so many other British communities outside London , Wirral entered the 1980s with no more than a handful of long-term drug users known to local doctors .
11 She had been giddy in the mornings and tired at night ; her breasts felt different , she had been sleeping badly , dreaming dreams , longing all day for Tristram to come and take her in his arms and love her , when instead she had had to be content with no more than a covert glance from him when he came home from Knollys 's yard in the evenings , or a touch of his ankle under the table at supper time .
12 Many thousands of stories , large and small , and even feature material are placed with no more than a press release in mail or some short telephone contact , and even PRO 's who work regularly with their own trade publications may , because of the distance between their offices and those of the publication , never have met the editors .
13 ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . )
14 In short , that they have appropriated a look , a style , and imbued it with no more than a vacuous narcissism , a barbaric bricolage mirroring a generation lost cynical ironic gestures and strategies .
15 They managed to part that night with no more than a friendly kiss , but the following evening when Mrs Wallington again went early to bed was more difficult .
16 First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat .
17 However , as this is not a treatise on the Venetian tradition , we will leave the subject here , with no more than a reminder of its possibilities .
18 A fragile , breakable , disposable population , with no more than a toe-hold on life when trade was good and employment more plentiful ; flicked off life 's surface , almost without being noticed , when it was not .
19 They kept slipping away , as her father had already slipped away , with no more than a mumbled excuse , to jot down a line of verse that had presented itself while he stood in some abstraction .
20 Anna stood up facing him , with no more than a hand 's breadth between them .
21 I know it did n't hurt , the paint pellet hitting and exploding with no more than a mild flick .
22 It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us .
23 With no more than a rather cryptic smile he went out , leaving her to the turmoil of thoughts that were no longer as crystal-clear as she had tried to make him believe .
24 That had been the crux of the problem the whole way through — she had been too passive , allowing Adam to call the shots with no more than a token protest .
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