Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [art] more than a " in BNC.

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1 But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter .
2 The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989 .
3 He said that in some countries the president was no more than a decorative figure .
4 Wednesday survived some fearsome pressure until Hirst 's strike provided enough breathing space to ensure Monkou 's 79th-minute reply was no more than a consolation goal .
5 The little square was relatively sheltered , and in the hall the gale was no more than a distant , muffled roar .
6 The manager thought his lunchtime call to Anfield was no more than a formality .
7 Moreover , Lord Cross 's appeal to the meaning of the word rape in common usage and the ordinary man 's understanding of rape is no more than a pretext for introducing his own view of what rape means .
8 This capacity is no more than a device to enable the organisation to act , and should not be seen as either creating or weighing against an agency relationship .
9 Subject to these provisos , the proposal is no more than a logical development of the original WEA practice of asking the University to provide teaching facilities through Joint Committee procedure .
10 A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along .
11 A successful program of this type is no more than a computerization of traditional classroom method , and it will teach most children effectively , with the added advantages of constant individual attention and limitless patience .
12 Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage .
13 Again Mungo had the sensation that the village was no more than a clearing ; a space borrowed from the forest .
14 Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable .
15 The damper was no more than a thin sheet of steel inserted into the stovepipe .
16 For some , the Council was no more than a prudent but much misunderstood attempt to update a few relatively minor matters .
17 The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child .
18 Sure , she had indulged in the occasional uncharitable observation that his affection for the child was no more than a front .
19 Mr Gillespie maintained that the correspondence was no more than a stage in negotiations and that there was no final agreement .
20 Thus , if cc was the only causal circumstance for an event e , then cc was no more than a set of conditions or events which necessitated e , and preceded e , and was dependently necessitated by e .
21 Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her .
22 In this context , the video disc is no more than a peripheral to the computer , much as any external disc drive might be .
23 A number of changes will have occurred : it will have lost ten to fifteen per cent of its weight through loss of water ; the cell structures in the meat will have broken down ; the proteins will have changed into individual amino acids ( developing the flavour ) ; the muscle filaments — yes , the noble carcass is no more than a collection of muscles , bone and fat — will have broken down a bit and become more tender .
24 If each party has his own private end to gain , but yet the joint aim is no more than a desire for prosperity or peace in industry , there is no tort .
25 However gifted , a theatre director is no more than a metteur en scène .
26 In my view the body is no more than a bag , a costume or a cover and I 'm altering it to be more in line with how I see myself . ’
27 The body is no more than a temporary earthly frame for a separate special creation ; it is the soul rather than the body which is endowed with intelligence , sense perception and moral judgement .
28 Among the estate 's residents , the fact that several people have been charged or convicted of offences against the Ks cuts no ice : the estate version is that what took place was no more than a personal vendetta , between Ramesh K and the man who broke his nose .
29 Leeds began as if their miserable Anfield record was no more than a myth and Liverpool had the indignity of being pinned in their penalty area in front of an affronted Kop .
30 At that time , the continents of North America and Europe were still close together and the Atlantic was no more than a narrow strip of sea between the two .
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