Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] [adj] [conj] a " 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 were no more than a lad myself . |
| 3 | He bent , seized my wrist , and dragged me towards him as if I were no more than a doll . |
| 4 | Yet I was no more than a modest petitioner for lodgment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And far more likely is the dining room which is no more than a corner of another room . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | any name which is the same as a name appearing in the index of names kept by the Registrar of Companies ( s. 714 ) ; |
| 14 | A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself . |
| 15 | Happily , these include some of the most desperate cases , like Borringdon , a once-magnificent Elizabethan house outside Plymouth which was no more than a gutted shell clinging to a precipice , but today is a comfortable country house hotel . |
| 16 | The farmer who sold it was happy to rid himself of a wreck which was no more than a dangerous playground . |
| 17 | He was searching for ‘ his class ’ , which he never found , and talked about ‘ the laboratory ’ , which was no more than a back kitchen with a bunsen burner and running water . |
| 18 | Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |
| 20 | You 're no better than a Hitler . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 're no more than a blackmailer ! ’ |
| 22 | And when you 're choosing your bag you 'll need to take account of what your metabolism is like — whether or not you 're a cold or a warm sleeper . |
| 23 | He carried her as if she were no more than a disobedient child back down the path to the fountain . |
| 24 | With a brief nod , as though she were no more than a casual acquaintance , he closed the door . |
| 25 | And he had spoken of her as though she were no more than a female to be used and then discarded . |
| 26 | You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most . |
| 27 | You have only to read her bestselling books , In the Shadow of Man and Through a Window , to recognise that by temperament she is a romantic and a child of nature . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |
| 30 | Then she skirted the table , gripped her stepmother by the shoulders , and began to shake her as if she was no more than a rag doll . |