Example sentences of "nothing [adj] than an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The displays demonstrate the reality , provide live plants to look at , and assure us that nothing larger than an unfortunate lizard or rat makes it into the green traps . |
| 2 | The point we sought to make , Mr Smith , was that it was ludicrous to assume — as Ford has — that millions of people aspire to nothing better than an average car , and to note that the master marketeers will probably get away with peddling mediocrity yet again . |
| 3 | Could it be that the bloody human history of the past 5,000 years is nothing more than an evolutionary side-road ? |
| 4 | The motives of the instigators might be anything from pure love of a believed-in ‘ god ’ , to nothing more than an ignoble desire to surpass in magnificence the work of a rival religion or area of influence . |
| 5 | Even with × 20 it shows up as nothing more than an elliptical blur , more or less devoid of detail , though it is possible to see the smaller companion galaxy M32 close beside it . |
| 6 | Before December 's adjournment , Israel had offered nothing more than an administrative body . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's never ever mentioned that night to me since , so as far as he 's aware , ’ he rapped cuttingly , ‘ I could think you were nothing more than an easy one-nighter for him ! ’ |
| 8 | For my late grandmother , this was nothing more than an amusing game . |
| 9 | Charlotte : Charlotte is a wealthy woman in her early forties who views aromatherapy as nothing more than an upmarket beauty treatment . |
| 10 | Charmed in spite of his suspicion that all this was nothing more than an elaborate strategy to get the best strawberries , the young man leaned on his fork . |
| 11 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 12 | Perelandra is the most ambitious of the outer-space stories , and the one with the most single-minded theological aim : nothing less than an imagined temptation-scene between Satan and Eve in which she does not succumb . |
| 13 | However romantically ill John might look , it seemed , that he had nothing worse than an unromantic cold . |
| 14 | But there 's nothing worse than an old fool . ’ |
| 15 | Nothing other than an obvious desire to be rid of me . |
| 16 | Psychoanalysis has made unfamiliar with the intimate connection between the father-complex and belief in God ; it has shown us that a personal God is psychologically nothing other than an exalted father , and it brings us evidence every day of how young people lose their religious beliefs as soon as their father 's authority breaks down . |