Example sentences of "no [det] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Schopenhauer could do no more than persist in a hopeless search for truth . |
| 2 | No great number of people need have been directly engaged in ironmaking , for the Wealden industry was still in the 1520s no more than poised on the threshold of greatness , with only three blast furnaces in operation , and indeed the original one at Newbridge standing idle without a tenant . |
| 3 | The leader was perhaps doing no more than drawing on the enthusiasm detectable in each of the two components of the party for the idea of citizenship . |
| 4 | Courses primarily of the one-hour-a-week variety and based on vocabulary with English — sign equivalents can do no more than serve as an introduction . |
| 5 | It is clear that the decision in Francovich does no more than usher in the doctrine of state liability for failure to legislate and that the full impact of the doctrine remains to be established . |
| 6 | Its universality as far as human life is concerned depends on when it actually happened , and we can do no more than guess at the date . |
| 7 | Much of the time , I could do no more than lie on the wheelbarrow to hold it down . |
| 8 | And nor should they be , for if my contention is correct , they are simply discovering new applications for that basic idea of popular power ; they are doing no more than engaging in the latest reinterpretation , or fresh application , of the classic democratic idea . |
| 9 | A report of the Institutional Shareholders ' Committee in April 1992 noted that ‘ most companies do no more than comply with the very limited disclosure requirements of SSAP 13 and some do not even do that . |
| 10 | To say , as I pull my hand back from the flame , 'l have no reason to shun pain' , is no more than playing with a verbal formula of doubt ; it does not open any abyss under my feet like ‘ I have no reason to obey moral imperatives ’ . |
| 11 | I could take no more but stood by the door whilst once more Benjamin peered at the blood-stained clothing . |
| 12 | He whimpered no more and lay on the concrete , silent . |