Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be [art] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Veneers appear in the 1880s although an eighteenth-century example was discovered during the 1983–4 excavations at St Augustine-the-Less , Bristol , but this might have been no more than an attempt on the part of the coffin-maker to mask some splits at the shoulder caused by over-zealous saw-cuts when kerfing . |
| 2 | Of course , this might have been no more than a diplomatic ruse by the Russians to initiate a dependence which would permit a later imposition of heavier tribute payments without negative results . |
| 3 | The easy , informed arguments they had about the Kesselring case proved him wrong : as they talked , the two of them might have been no more than friendly colleagues . |
| 4 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 5 | Otherwise you may aggravate something that , with a little rest and good management , could have been no more than a minor injury . |
| 6 | Some may say yes and some may say no and it will have all the appearance of a decision being made , but the real structure may have been no more than the bland question/answer relationship between the teacher-in-role and the class . |
| 7 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
| 8 | This may have been no more than wishful thinking , and during the campaign the Conservative Party managed to project itself as the most radical of the contenders for office . |
| 9 | What this would have looked like is sometimes difficult to imagine — it may have been no more than a larger-than-average farmstead , or it may have been a palace such as those found at Yeavering and Cheddar . |
| 10 | This suggests that the fall in equity prices in October 1987 may have been no more than a correction to the market . |
| 11 | A draw would have been no more than Wolves deserved , but Kiwomya , Ipswich 's most impressive forward , was not finished . |
| 12 | The terms ‘ Royal ’ and ‘ King ’ are perhaps not altogether appropriate for what would have been no more than tribal chieftains . |
| 13 | In the final analysis the entrepreneurial solution would have been no more than an evasion of the underlying causes of Nizan 's personal crisis of 1926–27 . |
| 14 | It would have been no more than I deserved . ’ |
| 15 | There would have been no more than the statutory redundancies . |
| 16 | The one or two well-to-do tanners identified in the subsidy rolls were so scattered , and formed so small a part of the population , that the contribution of leather working to the local economy can have been no more than marginal at best . |
| 17 | The schoolboy tight-head fancied himself as a hard man and was intent on working Elliot who , in fact , was so immensely strong that the lad can have been no more than the most minor of irritants . |