Example sentences of "[noun] [is] no 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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | In this context , the video disc is no more than a peripheral to the computer , much as any external disc drive might be . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | However gifted , a theatre director is no more than a metteur en scène . |
13 | 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 . ’ |
14 | 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 . |
15 | As well as making claims about the efficiency of markets , the theory denies the existence of producer power , at the same time drawing a reassuring analogy with democratic control in the political sphere : corporate behaviour is no more than a reflection of the popular will , expressed not through the ballot box , but via individual purchase decisions . |
16 | ‘ Even 500 metres distance is no more than a good shot , it is n't marksman or sniper qualification . ’ |
17 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
18 | Taxation is no more than a quantification machinery by means of which the recoverable amount of costs , disbursements , expenses , etc. is ascertained . |
19 | We built a simple little device which could administer a mild shock to a chick held briefly in my hand — tested on my finger , the shock is no more than a brief tingle , and the chicks seemed scarcely to notice it — ; and I checked out Benowitz' finding . |
20 | A code is no more than a ‘ perspective of quotations ’ ( p. 20 ) , and ‘ its only logic is that of the already-done or the already-read ’ ( p. 19 ) . |
21 | Equally , a guarantee by the surety of the repairing covenant is no more than a covenant or warranty that the guarantor will procure that the tenant , in turn , procures the premises to be kept in repair . |
22 | As an identity , the quantity theory is no more than a way of calculating the velocity of circulation . |
23 | They are not likely to be deterred by those who contend that democracy is no more than a method of choosing national governments . |
24 | Writing is no more than a secondary , graphic representation of language ’ ( quoted by Lyons 1970 : 18 ) . |
25 | Without religion , man is no more than a form of brute beast . |
26 | The average separation between the stars at its centre is no more than a tenth of a light-year . |
27 | For a radical social theorist such as Sahlins ( and for a number of feminists ) sociobiology is no more than a means of justifying the status quo as inevitable and ‘ natural ’ . |
28 | Most of the time the organization is no more than a collection of loosely coupled individuals and groups . |
29 | Zenith 's knowledge of Acme 's program is no more than a competent user would achieve — possible infringement of copyright because the structure of Zenith 's program is determined by Zenith 's familiarity with the structure of Acme 's program which Zenith copies indirectly , although the Computer Associates test , discussed above , might reduce protection . |
30 | It appears to me , for these reasons , that this letter is no more than a letter of kindness , creating no legal obligation . |