Example sentences of "[art] more than [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr Barnet was no more than a business acquaintance , but with true American hospitality he had taken pity on the young English couple who had no means of escaping from the city . |
| 32 | I mean , I have n't done a detailed survey on anything , but I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw when I went in there , and I must say , I went there expecting it to be no more than a garden hut . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | And yet it is no more than a nine-horse race , even if one of the teams is more pony than stallion , and no extreme predictions will be found in this column ; the taste of the printed page proved far too unpalatable in 1983 , when criticism of India , eventual World Cup winners , was duly exposed as unwarranted and the urgent suggestion that one should eat one 's words was honourably met . |
| 35 | It looked tiny , no more than an emergency shelter , which of course was all it was intended to be . |
| 36 | On the one hand there have been those who have claimed that , at least in the early days , the campaign was no more than the minority group Moral Re-Armament ( MRA ) by a different name ; on the other there is Mrs Whitehouse herself , who clearly believes that the organisation represents the ‘ silent majority ’ in the country . |
| 37 | A race lost , a father murdered , a career on the skids — they were no more than the opening scenes of a nightmare which was engulfing her . |
| 38 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 39 | Believe it or not , she is prepared to pay … ’ — and then he mentions what is no more than the market value of the land , but he makes it sound like a king 's ransom — ‘ … per acre . |
| 40 | This is no more than the flight time to Mexico city , with which Merida lacked road and rail communication until little more than a generation ago . |
| 41 | Small companies wishing to dispense with the burden of audit would have to have turnover of no more than the VAT registration threshold , under new proposals from the Government . |