Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [art] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gravel tidy , which is no more than a fine plastic mesh , should then be laid over the coarse medium and should be neatly trimmed to fit snugly into all the corners and around the uplifts . |
| 2 | Vaughan 's constant sense that he was one of life 's outsiders , never a participant , that he was always ‘ trying to hold on to a reality which is no more than a projection of my own nerves ’ , made him sympathetic to the blighted , visionary anti-hero in Benjamin Britten 's opera , Peter Grimes , the première of which marked the reopening of the Sadler 's Wells Theatre after the war . |
| 3 | It may be possible to reconcile the seismic evidence with fractured rock beneath the lava , which is no more than a few kilometres thick , particularly if the first few sheets that flowed were heavily fractured and were then covered by the sheets we see today . |
| 4 | And far more likely is the dining room which is no more than a corner of another room . |
| 5 | That sense will in most cases resolve itself into the question of whether the comment was honestly made , which is no more than a defining characteristic of " fair comment " in the first place . |
| 6 | The price surprised him : you get a lot of car for just over £20,000 , if only in terms of its length , which is the same as a Mercedes 260E and a couple of inches more than the 5-series BMWs . |
| 7 | any name which is the same as a name appearing in the index of names kept by the Registrar of Companies ( s. 714 ) ; |
| 8 | A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself . |
| 9 | Even the gourd comes off better than the poor whale , who is no more than a floating prison where Jonah spends three days purging his contempt of court . |
| 10 | However , if you have travelled some distance , use a thermometer to check temperature of pond and transport water and if there is no more than a 4° difference , release the fish straight away . |
| 11 | I daresay it 's no more than a chill . |
| 12 | Thereafter it 's no more than a recurrent talking-point or a way of talking down , with all this I do n't feel I really know you and What 's really going on in there ? and Show me the real you . |
| 13 | He 's perfectly competent , well supplied with money always , and it 's no more than a quarter past nine . |
| 14 | It 's no more than a change of clothing . |
| 15 | The theory ( and it is no more than a theory ) goes something like this . |
| 16 | It is no more than a consistent point of view , which has the advantage that , if we accept it , we can stop arguing about whether feelings are causes of actions , and can get on with finding out how our brains work , without fearing that an answer to the question would make free will an illusion . |
| 17 | It is therefore important to establish the reasons why it is no more than a secondary justification dependent on the availability , at least to a certain degree , of another justification . |
| 18 | It is no more than a large village with shops , yet to the folk of the remote parts of Sutherland it is a metropolis of great importance . |
| 19 | At the seaward end , it is no more than a good stone 's throw from the Atlantic beach but at a higher level , its issuing stream descending through a short wooded ravine to join the waters of the ocean . |
| 20 | It would be dangerous to suggest that this impossibility is in any strong sense theoretical , i.e. open to mathematical proof , and I will assume it is no more than a strong empirical impossibility . |
| 21 | In Some cases , those where laws have been enacted , this will be justified , but for those that remain mere hopes it is no more than a persuasive figure of speech . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 24 | Superficially it is no more than a succession of parallel layers . |
| 25 | But it is no more than a seed in 1215 . |
| 26 | But if I may interrupt , how do you cope with the argument that Mr Curtis was making that if your settlement is , say , less than two and a half thousand it is no more than a large housing estate which relies on the centre of York for its functions , of service , shopping , entertainment , and therefore that the difference between that the difference between a new settlement beyond the greenbelt and peripheral development , in those terms , is no different . |
| 27 | In the hands of its writer , it is no more than a dreary bit of singer-songwriter earnestness . |
| 28 | Modern scientific man thinks that he is no more than a chance arrangement of dust and water , of molecules — though he may acknowledge that the atoms and molecules , indeed all life forms , are highly ordered and organized ! |
| 29 | ‘ And so will her son , though he 's no bigger than a rabbit . ’ |
| 30 | Cantona claimed the equaliser to disprove accusations that he 's no more than a ball-juggling circus act . |