Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [indef pn] more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too many people believe football is nothing more than a game , but you and I know it to be so much more . |
| 2 | Here , too , the Hammonds were concerned to dismiss suggestions that Luddism was anything more than a despairing form of industrial protest without any real degree of political revolutionary intent . |
| 3 | Because , of course , the Counterweight Continent was nothing more than a solar myth . |
| 4 | In reality , the basis for the prevailing sense of optimism was nothing more than a sense that , with hostilities now ended , everyone could get back to business as usual . |
| 5 | The next chapter examines the governmental context of Charles 's fiscal and monetary methods : his imitation of late-Roman emperors was something more than a charade or a figleaf for impotence . |
| 6 | When people first encounter it their normal assumption is that an alternate universe is nothing more than a ‘ what might have been ’ ; science-fiction writers have toyed with that idea for decades . |
| 7 | It is like pedigree dogs — a pedigree is special but a cross-breed is nothing more than a mongrel . |
| 8 | ‘ The fact that , after five years of separation , I 'm still married to Ross is nothing more than a mere technicality ! ’ |
| 9 | There are those who remain unconvinced of the benefits of a good environmental audit , arguing that the process is nothing more than a shallow , expensive public relations exercise . |
| 10 | A good picture is nothing more than a perfect equilibrium , that is to say a balance of weights and a harmony of numbers . |
| 11 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
| 12 | They were usually minor KGB agents , and the two-thousand-dollar charge was nothing more than a way of increasing the Soviet Union 's foreign exchange . |
| 13 | The room was nothing more than a dry , musty cell . |
| 14 | I could sidle up to the hi-fi and turn it off , snap on the light-switch and announce quite calmly to all the sycophants here that Luke Denner is nothing more than a callous murderer . |
| 15 | The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is nothing more than a rather larger Americanised version of Wookey Hole in Somerset or the Dan-yr-Ogof caves in South Wales . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So we may come to the third proposition of this book : THE SEDIMENTARY PILE AT ANY ONE PLACE ON THE EARTH 'S SURFACE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TINY AND FRAGMENTARY RECORD OF VAST PERIODS OF EARTH HISTORY . |
| 18 | Perhaps the manifest intrinsic contusions which surface in each of the foregoing theories are enough to write them oft , and to show how the same/different metaphysic is nothing more than a potently confused , highly discriminating mixed metaphor . |
| 19 | The immediate reaction was that the discovery of Pluto was nothing more than a small-scale diversion : there must be a tenth planet out there , and a very large planet at that . |
| 20 | Thus , between 1744 and 1767 , Hermann Samuel Reimarus , a professor at Hamburg , had argued that Jesus was nothing more than a failed Judaic revolutionary whose body was removed from its tomb by his disciples . |
| 21 | In an outspoken attack in the News of the World , the 54-year-old condemned his religious upbringing as ‘ brainwashing ’ and claimed : ‘ Jesus was nothing more than a magician just like me . ’ |
| 22 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 23 | It was said of Comte that ‘ the woman he chose as his wife was nothing more than a means for the immediate gratification of his crude sexuality ’ . |
| 24 | Strictly speaking , the king was nothing more than a servant , a vessel , a vehicle , through which the divine will manifested itself . |
| 25 | " Your saints are nothing more than a lot of mischief-makers . " |
| 26 | Writers on policy analysis are agreed that a policy is something more than a decision . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The citizens charter is nothing more than a glossy confection . |
| 29 | ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |