Example sentences of "[prep] be [indef pn] more [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add in Edith Cresson 's political affiliation , plus her deserved reputation for dirigisme , and the freshly coined sobriquet ‘ Edithatcher ’ seems to be nothing more than a phrase-monger 's fancy . |
| 2 | To her it may seem that not only was she robbed of happiness during her marriage , but that she is now also being denied the right to grieve as well , for there will be those who will be expecting her mourning to be nothing more than a brief bow to convention , followed by a fairly speedy rise in spirits and return to normality . |
| 3 | To her , language seemed to be nothing more than a means of discovering the price of butter or exchanging views about the weather . |
| 4 | It turned out to be nothing more than a charter for busybodies , lacking muscle and new money . |
| 5 | Buddhists of the Northern school of China and Japan evolved their own theory of grace and came to believe in the Buddha as a Saviour , though in the earliest Scriptures he himself claimed to be nothing more than a teacher , a shower of the way . |
| 6 | For both of these reasons , fluorine-oriented life seems to be nothing more than a theoretical fancy . |
| 7 | A major reason for this unconcern is that various fraudsters who have operated in the field have given ESP a bad name : underfunded scientists have far better things to investigate than a phenomenon which seems , on the basis of the available evidence , to be nothing more than a farrago . |
| 8 | It appears to be nothing more than a large cuckoo clock , with a single hand . |
| 9 | This , however , is said to be nothing more than a scantily concealed voluntarism . |
| 10 | Similarly , the Britons Society and Publishing Company appeared to be nothing more than a minuscule middle-class organization with a bee in its bonnet about Jews . |
| 11 | It has proved , at the first time of asking in Test cricket , to be nothing more than a wrist-slapper . |
| 12 | There are all sorts of reasons why one should not readily excuse such cruel behaviour , but Basil Henriques considered the crime to be nothing more than a boyish prank . |
| 13 | It was thought to be nothing more than a shattered argillaceous deposit , produced by repeated submarine landslipping and carrying with it exotic blocks ranging in size from small fragments ( plate 4.2 ) up to whole mountains . |
| 14 | In an interview on French television on Dec. 2 , Saddam Hussein said that " if this meeting is to be a true path to dialogue , then we are closer to peace , … but if this meeting is to be nothing more than a formal exhibition … then we are closer to war " . |
| 15 | In an earlier case , Computer-Aided Systems ( UK ) Ltd. v Bolwell ( 1989 ) , the mere fact that a new program had file compatibility with an earlier program written by the same people failed to impress the judge who considered the plaintiff 's application for inspection of the defendant 's program to be nothing more than a " fishing expedition " . |
| 16 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
| 17 | If you guys really want to be anything more than a footnote in the annals of British history get this — ‘ Egalitarianism is for Losers ’ . |
| 18 | To put it another way , bargaining provides the cement essential if the American polity is to be anything more than a conglomeration of unintegrated fragments . |