Example sentences of "is nothing [det] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Short-term pain for long-term gain — or in his words , ‘ this is nothing less than a call to arms , to restore the vitality of the American dream ’ .
2 This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said .
3 An absolutely blatant digression , it is nothing less than a lecture on the whole idea of locked rooms .
4 Wood 's principles are those of Loudon more than three decades later : ‘ a palace is nothing more than a cottage IMPROVED ’ , he wrote .
5 ‘ This is very interesting , ’ she said , ‘ but I 'm afraid that it is nothing more than a performance .
6 ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’
7 Thus , it is nothing more than a clearing house which does nothing in its own right .
8 If life is nothing more than a moving from one activity to the next it is not surprising if we become restless , cluttered and superficial .
9 If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ .
10 The exhibition therefore is nothing more than a rerun of Celant 's European power-broking of the lat 1960s , a European and specifically a Milanese challenge to America 's claim to the avant-garde which nevertheless included many successful ( male ) American artists of the period .
11 Quite a few people argue that managed competition is nothing more than a compromise , cobbled together to make sure that the mighty insurers and high-tech hospitals stay in business .
12 The fact that you report through him is nothing more than a formula to save his face .
13 The right of assembly , as Professor Dicey puts it , is nothing more than a view taken by the court of the individual liberty of the subject .
14 The right of assembly , as PROFESSOR DICEY puts it ( LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION ( 8TH Edn. ) p. 499 ) , is nothing more than a view taken by the courts of individual liberty of speech .
15 The right of assembling is nothing more than a result of the view taken by the courts as to individual liberty of person and individual liberty of speech .
16 This denial is exposed by the strategy of ‘ family planning ’ in our country , which is nothing more than a pillar of the apartheid programme .
17 Too many people believe football is nothing more than a game , but you and I know it to be so much more .
18 This is nothing more than a deaggregation of larger line items .
19 It is like pedigree dogs — a pedigree is special but a cross-breed is nothing more than a mongrel .
20 The play is nothing more than a succession of her venomous attacks on the sons ’ girls and the sons ' unbelievably feeble attempts to fight back .
21 To oppose them is a patriotic act ; their own use of national flags and symbols is nothing more than a sham masking their terroristic inclinations .
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