Example sentences of "[be] no more than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some may say yes and some may say no and it will have all the appearance of a decision being made , but the real structure may have been no more than the bland question/answer relationship between the teacher-in-role and the class . |
| 2 | There would have been no more than the statutory redundancies . |
| 3 | Others interested in this Ocean may have already found their choicest figures : the one that brought the Pacific 's surge so very much alive for me — when hitherto it had been no more than the muffled beatings of a warm , blue and very distant sea — related to an event seven miles above the surface of the earth , some time during a night in 1984 . |
| 4 | Fourth , it compares the British experience with trends in other western states in the 1980s , has the so-called Thatcher revolution been no more than the British reflection of trends apparent elsewhere ? |
| 5 | But it is now argued that the increased radiation would be no more than the existent difference between the poles and the equator . |
| 6 | The additional element in sexual assault might be no more than the particular circumstances . |
| 7 | Puerperal fever was previously unknown in Aberdeen and the epidemic was thought to be no more than the common ephemeral fever known as the ‘ Weed ’ , which was rarely fatal . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid it may be no more than the zoological equivalent of chauvinistic snobbery , analogous to the attitude that sees every Australian as an uncouth swagman with not much under his hat and corks dangling round the brim . |
| 9 | The natural resources of Florence were no more than the four elements available to all simple communities since antiquity : earth , air , water and fire . |
| 10 | Ask a modern psychic and he will suggest that a poltergeist is no more than the manifesting energy of a disturbed human being . |
| 11 | After all he is no more than the chief executive officer of government , his province is not to make but to execute the laws . |
| 12 | There is a Nazi in everyone , so schoolmaster Golding suggests , and there since childhood ; and civilisation is no more than the thinnest of thin veneers , as Hitler showed , masking a base , innate craving to rule and be ruled . |
| 13 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 14 | The news brought back by Colonel Moore after what they had all supposed was no more than the formal punctuation had almost panicked her . |