Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the Discourses printed in them are no more than a title , but most are published in full . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm no better than the great tree hit by lightning at Thornfield , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I 'm the biggest and the oldest . |
| 4 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 5 | I were no more than a lad myself . |
| 6 | He bent , seized my wrist , and dragged me towards him as if I were no more than a doll . |
| 7 | Likewise , in He 's meeting his teacher , his would be translated by the appropriate case form of svojlsvoja provided the referent of his is the same as the referent of he ; otherwise the pronoun used is jego . |
| 8 | Yet I was no more than a modest petitioner for lodgment . |
| 9 | Believe it or not — his was the 15th or the 18th of January too . ) |
| 10 | The rhetoric may point to extreme scepticism or Pyrrhonism but its users , if pressed , are likely to retreat to positions which are no more than a modified version of traditional ones . |
| 11 | Individuals ' 'ego ideals ' are seen as being systematically transferred to charismatic leader figures , organisations and the values ( including those of family , church and patriarchal authority ) which are no less than a displaced version of the all-providing ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ figure of childhood . |
| 12 | It is a member of the multivibrator family the other two of which are the monostable and the astable . |
| 13 | So the neurotransmitters then bind to receptors which are which are the same as the channels , the channel is both the receptor , the ligan binder , and er and an ion channel , and it 's located at the postsynaptic membrane or at the surface of the muss muscle fibre if we 're dealing with a neuromuscular junction . |
| 14 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 15 | The next job was to plug in the PostScript card , which is no larger than the average credit card , and only three times as thick . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And far more likely is the dining room which is no more than a corner of another room . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I remind the House that traffic speeds in central London have fallen to 10 mph , which is no more than the speed of a horse and cart at the turn of the century . |
| 22 | Perhaps what is at work here is a fear of the other as same not unlike the fascinated fear of the primitive in the notion of ‘ going native ’ : a metamorphosis into the radically other which is no more than an all too easily imagined regression into one 's own ‘ primitive ’ past . |
| 23 | The former 's idealistically active audience confronts the latter 's picture of passive consumers , which is no more than an abstraction . |
| 24 | Why has it been necessary to have endless debates about developing phase 2 of Kilroot as an oil or coal-burning plant , which is the expensive and the dirty option ? |
| 25 | The first , which is the simpler and the one used not in Northern Ireland but in the Republic , is to sort all of Paisley 's papers into " sub-parcels " , one for each second-preference candidate , and then to give to each such candidate a number of votes calculated in accordance with the following formula : the surplus divided by the total number of transferable votes , multiplied by the number of papers in each sub-parcel . |
| 26 | In addition , one can not see how the imposition of a charge which is the same whether the journey is one station down the line , or from Inverness to Plymouth , can be considered fair and reasonable within the confines of any Charter . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | any name which is the same as a name appearing in the index of names kept by the Registrar of Companies ( s. 714 ) ; |
| 29 | Having spent a night in accommodation which is the same as the recruits ' and having had the opportunity to talk to some of the recruits in the Sandes Coffee Shop last night , they have an excellent idea about their future career . |
| 30 | Other pied breeds include the rare Danish Blue-and-White ( Dansk Blåhvidt Kvæg ) , which is the same as the Belgian Blue ; and also the Danish Red Pied ( Dansk Rødbroget Kvæg , or DRK ) , which is related to Dutch and West German red-and-white breeds , originating in the 1950s from Shorthorns with German Red Pied and Meuse-Rhine-Yssel blood and more recently influenced by red Holstein-Friesian bulls from the USA and Canada . |