Example sentences of "it [verb] no more " in BNC.
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| 1 | That looks incompatible with gaucherie , and perhaps is , but it represents no more than the incompatibilities that individuals daily enact in their own lives . |
| 2 | Firstly , it represents no more than a proposal for reform of the internal structure of the public company and not an accurate description of how the board at present functions in such a company . |
| 3 | I did try on a couple of occasions to wind the engine up past the 5000rpm mark , where the torque curve begins to fall away rapidly , but it produced no more performance than was available by driving the car sensibly for economy . |
| 4 | Volvo 's two-litre B200 engine had always been smoother than the bigger-bore 2.3 , but it made no more than an adequate job of hauling the corpulent 940 . |
| 5 | He knew so little about the serf question that at first he thought it involved no more than granting the peasants their personal freedom . |
| 6 | And he was there , making the impossible leap from the ground to the moving platform , ducking beneath the barrel of the cannon , waving his chainsword in circles as if it weighed no more than a walking stick . |
| 7 | It has no more substance than a smell . |
| 8 | Did it do no more than keep a subsistence economy running ? |
| 9 | There was an air-raid shelter in the front garden which at home would have provoked embarrassment and been subjected to vigorous camouflage with hardy perennials ; here it evoked no more than amused pride . |
| 10 | These are then innocently repeated and alas , the accurate circuits are forgotten , and yet it costs no more to be correct . |
| 11 | it costs no more than the news to enter . |
| 12 | The drain-all , strip-out approach to land has been adopted by insurance firms investing in agriculture precisely because it requires no more thought than it takes to fill in a form for the subsidy . |
| 13 | It applies no more nor less to the most personal and transitory goals than to the most general and long-term . |
| 14 | Already he had spent an hour wandering around the town — it needed no more time than that — trying to get the feel of the place . |
| 15 | This finding is open to the criticism that it reflects no more than a difference between the two phenomena in their sensitivity — that the procedure in question disrupts some process common to both phenomena and that the latent inhibition procedure provides a more sensitive measure of this disruption than does the habituation procedure . |
| 16 | It seems no more than a charming anecdote , but when Professor Davie cites Bunting 's tale in Under Briggflatts , his history of British poetry since 1960 , he calls the incident ‘ challenging ’ . |
| 17 | At times ‘ the Shadow ’ becomes a personification of Sauron , as in Frodo 's remark about mocking and making quoted earlier , at times it seems no more than cloud and mirk , as when the Riders ' hearts ‘ quailed under the shadow ’ . |
| 18 | Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface . |
| 19 | Hachette says that Montana was a passive minority investor about which it knew no more than it had been told by Montana 's Swiss lawyer : that it represented investors from several Gulf countries . |
| 20 | Because it asks no more |
| 21 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 22 | Actually , it felt no more of a wasted morning than wandering round the Guggenheim would have done , and I still managed an afternoon 's lingerie shopping . |
| 23 | It took no more time to produce the gas by the new method than it did using metals and acids . |
| 24 | It took no more than a year before exhibitions of the works that he had brought out of Russia ( these being just part of what he had owned before leaving his best works to the Russian people ) began their triumphant tour of the prestigious galleries of Europe , America and Canada . |
| 25 | It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday . |
| 26 | Does that mean no more without development in the deposited greenbelt , as in the greenbelt as defined in the deposited greenbelt local plan , or does it mean no more unless it is hard up against that greenbelt ? |
| 27 | As the company 's first venture into IT for financial purposes , it did no more than automate existing manual processes . |
| 28 | Everyone agreed that investiture by lay rulers conferred no spiritual power : it did no more than put a prelate in possession of the rights , lands , and secular dignities of his new office . |
| 29 | Designed to nip in the bud any incipient growth in villages , it was successful , so far as the city was concerned , probably because it did no more than sanction the existing situation , even though in the fifteenth century the trade had flourished at Hartlebury , which remained an important centre of the specialised craft of fulling . |
| 30 | The bill 's supporters , most of whom were Democrats , insisted that it did no more than enshrine into law the rights already guaranteed in Roe v. Wade , the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling which had established the principle of legal abortion in the USA . |