Example sentences of "no [det] [conj] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | these proposals we regard as doing no more than initiating a programme of family welfare which will have to be kept under continuous review and modified and expanded in the light of experience and deeper knowledge . |
| 2 | The King could reasonably take the view that he was doing no more than exercising the right to encourage , one of Bagehot 's famous trinity of rights , and that he was encouraging his Prime Minister in achieving his aims , rather than pressing MacDonald to adopt a course which was unwelcome to him . |
| 3 | At the end of June 1862 , not long after Young Russia and the fires in St Petersburg — and immediately after an attempt on the life of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich — Valuev produced a paper on the internal condition of the empire in which he admitted the many difficulties under which the government was labouring but proposed no more than converting the State Council into a somewhat more representative body and bypassing the judicial system to deal with radicals more speedily . |
| 4 | The process involves no more than threading a strip beneath another one that runs across it more or less at right angles , and keeping on doing so at intervals with dogged persistence , pulling the strip tight after each threading . |
| 5 | Compared with unregistered conveyancing , the reduction in responsibility and mental anguish is notable ; moreover , by no more than lifting the telephone you have at your elbow , in the Land Registry Enquiry Department in Lincoln 's Inn Fields and in every District Land Registry , a friendly and expert service , which can usually answer " off the cuff " any questions that perplex you . |
| 6 | In answering the question posed by the preliminary issue in this case affirmatively I believe that I am doing no more than giving the answer that is clearly called for by application of the common law principles of the law of negligence . |
| 7 | He knew so little about the serf question that at first he thought it involved no more than granting the peasants their personal freedom . |
| 8 | But , having given permission and encouraged the port authority and dock company to move in and operate a port , which is a major long term undertaking , it is hardly reasonable to seek to stop or materially limit it without compensation and when the dock company is doing no more than making a success of that for which permission was granted . |