Example sentences of "[pron] was no [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I was no more than a modest petitioner for lodgment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The farmer who sold it was happy to rid himself of a wreck which was no more than a dangerous playground . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Now another life was about to begin , one in which she was no more than a surname and number , a woman who had lifted her hand in salute and sworn allegiance to King and country . |
| 10 | They say she was no more than a skeleton . |
| 11 | However much she 'd fallen in love with Rohan , to him she was no more than a passing fancy , to be enjoyed then discarded . |
| 12 | Smaller she grew , and smaller yet , till she was no larger than a monkey . |
| 13 | These were places where at the beginning of the century there was no more than a Mechanics ' Institute or a Lit. and Phil. ; and these new institutions were more oriented to science than the ancient ones , and committed on the German model to research . |
| 14 | There was no more than a shadowy echo . |
| 15 | Driver Helen Challoner who was passed by bike and car estimated their speed at around a hundred mills an hour and said there was no more than a car 's length between them . |
| 16 | It was as heavy as an ox in spite of the fact that it was no taller than a young steer , and a green and greasy liquid flowed from its wounds . |
| 17 | Burun cursed , and Rostov saw that the straw circle had been moved back and turned sideways so that it was no wider than a man 's forearm . |
| 18 | It was no more than a shadow on his deepening melancholy . |
| 19 | It was no more than a wooden shed , with shelves layered round the walls , and a counter . |
| 20 | The pressure of legal penalties , not only against pagans but eventually also against heretics , schismatics , and Jews , no doubt had a part to play ; but to judge by the extent to which Christian mobs could get their way without restraint years before the emperors ' coercive legislation , enacted in the years after 390 , it was no more than a minor part . |
| 21 | For most horses it 's a big fence , but to him it was no more than a hurdle . |
| 22 | Cam had a vague memory of a glamorous ‘ aunt ’ , who had once taken a remote interest in his father , but it was no more than a shadow . |
| 23 | It was no more than a change of emphasis , but it emboldened the opposition . |
| 24 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 25 | It had a resale value , even if it was no more than a few lire . |
| 26 | Sometimes it was no more than a retaining fee ; sometimes , like a normal feudal holding , it paid the knight for some period of service . |
| 27 | Still , it helped a little , numbing-his anger until it was no more than a controlled resentment . |
| 28 | But it was no more than a consolation , and Bournemouth easily played out time in the monsoon to earn a second-round trip to Cheltenham . |
| 29 | A movement moves : it does not , and dares not , coalesce ; and to capitalise it was no more than a modest journalistic hyperbole and a useful summary of an undoubted shift in literary taste . |
| 30 | They seemed to smell the air and if a lone bird hove in sight , they 'd pick it up when it was no more than a speck and watch it till it disappeared , and everything about it would be important to them — the direction of its flight , the way it flew , its height above the water , and so on . |