Example sentences of "more than [art] [adj] version of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Multimedia education is nothing more than a new version of a teaching machine , albeit with real-time video , and teaching machines do n't work . |
| 2 | The rhetoric may point to extreme scepticism or Pyrrhonism but its users , if pressed , are likely to retreat to positions which are no more than a modified version of traditional ones . |
| 3 | A one-way outsourcing arrangement , such as General Motors ' purchases of cars and components from Daewoo in South Korea , is little more than a sophisticated version of familiar NFI agreements : they offer the supplier the opportunity to gain value-creating activities and obviate the buyer 's need to invest . |
| 4 | The front-page story lacked most of the details with which Tracey had supplied her , and amounted to little more than a rewritten version of the PA copy she had seen . |
| 5 | They are nothing more than a British version of New Kids On The Block . |
| 6 | This should not be suspected of being a new , strange phenomenon ; it is no more than an adjectival version of a syntactic process that is actually very common in more extended phrases , such as : ( 4 ) oddly familiar faces sadly indifferent spectators slightly old-fashioned courtesy Here , one property-word is qualified by another , which therefore does not apply directly to the noun ( or the entity behind it ) ; the faces are in fact definitely not odd , nor are the spectators sad , and there is no reason to suppose that the courtesy in the third case is slight . |