Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] no [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd relaxed in her skin after the hot work over the kiln , she had n't flaunted it ; not till that moment , and even then , had she been clothed , the smile might have signified no more than amused affection . |
| 2 | Had it not been for splintered wood and debris Alas on deck , and a ripped sail or two , the storm might have seemed no more than a bad dream . |
| 3 | The light was not on in his room behind him , and from outside Mr Wolski might have seemed no more than an insubstantial shape , the reds and blues of his pyjamas now turned into grim black stripes against white , such as some of the prisoners in Nazi death camps of the Second World War had worn . |
| 4 | Kafka could have felt no more trepidation at that time than I , though I covered my nervousness by giggling at Maté 's latest joke . |
| 5 | Thus it came about that if you walked into a bar in Babylon around 2000 B.C. you could have sampled no fewer than 16 different beers . |
| 6 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 7 | The plan may have envisaged no more than provisioning the Danish fleet when it was already on the scene . |
| 8 | He would have felt no less if he 'd been told that Berowne was dead of a coronary or killed in a car smash . |
| 9 | The summary of the Webbs ' view is that , by contrast with their model of Socialism , Owen 's scheme — if it could have been carried out — would have done no more than redistribute the capital of the country without altering or superseding the capitalist system in the least . |
| 10 | ‘ I would have expected no less of you , Alice . |
| 11 | She would have had no such hopes in the old days , when Bill took pleasure in flouting normal expectations , seemed driven to flare up , to " create " as Mrs Orton might put it . |
| 12 | Any rise in aggregate demand which was rationally anticipated would have had no such effect — it would merely have led to a rise in prices . |
| 13 | one would expect a large variation in the fluency with which teachers can instruct in sign language ; many would have had no more than a relatively short course . |
| 14 | I knew Malpass would have had no more than a fleeting glimpse of them , but just to be sure , I went behind the bar and found an empty crisp box . |