Example sentences of "no more than [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use not less than 1,000 rpm to minimise the risk of lead fouling , but no more than are needed to achieve the correct speed with minimum braking . |
| 2 | Teachers become more efficient at writing objectives the more they practise , so that they can soon reach the stage where the time taken is no more than is required for planning anyway . |
| 3 | They should then be plugged into their holders , handling them no more than is really necessary , and avoiding any obvious sources of static electricity . |
| 4 | Although these may produce useful information , Ministers are skilled in revealing no more than is necessary . |
| 5 | This remedy must be pursued with caution as the amount of force used must be no more than is reasonable in the circumstances . |
| 6 | Three years and some months since leaving him , I had satisfied myself that , in picking me as a wife , he had done no more than is required to select a fruit from a dish with the prospect of some fleeting juiciness , but no lasting nourishment . |
| 7 | It is established in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights that the word ‘ necessary ’ in this context implies the existence of a pressing social need , and that interference with freedom of expression should be no more than is proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued . |
| 8 | It is established in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights that the word ‘ necessary ’ in this context implies the existence of a pressing social need , and that interference with freedom of expression should be no more than is proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued . |
| 9 | No more than is inevitable , and manageable . |
| 10 | One side advantage of using these human interest aspects of the police procedural is that here at least you will have to do no research , or no more than is required by looking into your own heart . |
| 11 | This is a particularly sensitive area and care should be taken to reveal no more than is necessary . |
| 12 | Being married to even a would-be politician involves many sacrifices which may achieve no more than being landed with a morose husband ( or wife ) hanging round the house for the next four or five years . |
| 13 | Their ‘ transition ’ may be no more than being found a placement in residential care after the completion of an independence training college course ( Corbett 1991 ) . |
| 14 | And if her father 's influence had created the opening for her , it was no more than was indispensable in this male-dominated society . |
| 15 | There was a lot more tetanus , but no more than was carried in here fifty years ago in the First War . |
| 16 | It had been an uneventful night , the bugged policeman doing no more than was expected of him . |
| 17 | Charitable donations , however , did nothing to enhance a political interest , even if a lack of charity could seriously harm it , for a substantial contribution from a major political figure was no more than was expected by the gentlemen of a county or the magistrates of a burgh . |
| 18 | It would recognise , too , that industrial democracy can not be conjured into being overnight , no more than was political democracy , no more than was the joint stock company as the common expression of industrial capitalism . |
| 19 | It would recognise , too , that industrial democracy can not be conjured into being overnight , no more than was political democracy , no more than was the joint stock company as the common expression of industrial capitalism . |
| 20 | As specified , a causal circumstance includes no more than was needed to necessitate the effect , which is to say that it included just a set of conditions or events such that if the set existed , so did the effect , and still would have even if certain other conditions or events had also existed . |
| 21 | As to the monthly payments , we have already said that we see no sufficient grounds for disturbing the judge 's findings that the receipts of sums by the plaintiffs from the defendant after Miss Guile left the flat represented no more than was due from him on the footing that he was liable only for monthly payments of £86.66 . |
| 22 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 23 | Which , she privately admitted , was no more than was his due , seeing how , believing her to be someone else , he had wined her , dined her , housed her — Abruptly she shut her mind off . |