Example sentences of "[be] no more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is much more likely to be no more than a reflection of the fact that almost everything we know about Richard as Duke of Aquitaine comes from an English chronicler , Roger of Howden , and Roger only has information when he has access to the reports sent by Richard to his father , that is to say when Henry is in England . |
| 32 | It hardly matters what you are angry about , so long as you convey clearly the message that you are on the point of a serious psychotic meltdown and anyone getting in your way is liable to be no more than a bag of pimply skin and bone shards lying in a pool of blood within seconds . |
| 33 | This immediately triggered talk about a triple ( or is it a quadruple ? ) dip , but many economists believe it will prove to be no more than a stutter . |
| 34 | This chapter can be no more than a combination of large generalizations and small examples , maybe unrepresentative . |
| 35 | I mean , I have n't done a detailed survey on anything , but I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw when I went in there , and I must say , I went there expecting it to be no more than a garden hut . |
| 36 | A dozen flying machines and their pilots would be no more than a blip on a piece of magnetic tape . |
| 37 | It appeared to be no more than a gesture of politeness , but Polly knew he was poised to block her slightest move towards the door . |
| 38 | It would be a gesture , I think , by Councillors of recognition that hardship is erm perhaps being endured and that they should share in it , but it would be no more than a gesture . |
| 39 | But now , here , this morning , in this pokey little office in Queen Anne 's Gate , spring in the air in St James 's Park outside his windows , the sound of military music drifting across from Buckingham Palace as the guards marched — all the elements of human and political drama so clear in his mind — Mick wondered whether it really was his destiny to be no more than a player : just another player . |
| 40 | ‘ Rational animal ’ had been suggested as a definition of the ‘ nature ’ of man ; but this appears to be no more than a specification of some of his properties . |
| 41 | Mr claims that this is merely of local importance and at the end of the day twenty years from now or twenty five years from now whenever this the application is imp is implemented and and completed that it would be no more than a replica of er natural features within the Vale of York . |
| 42 | The Land Rover had originally been meant to be no more than a safety net . |
| 43 | Reginald de Grey reckoned every Welshman a thief and an outlaw , and had his borders patrolled as though against the entire army of France , in great measure creating the animosity and disorder he saw everywhere ; and this company might be no more than a routine patrol meant to impress and intimidate on his usual terms . |
| 44 | In one sense , offering insurance in this way may be no more than a marketing device and the whole deal is a matter for the commercial judgement of the firm involved — and their clients . |
| 45 | The risk-graded investment — be it under Scottish Mutual 's calculations or the statistical tools used by other unit trust managers — can be no more than a guide . |
| 46 | The lecture , then , can be no more than a guide to assist your studies . |
| 47 | As Edmund is unlikely to have issued law in which he exhorted himself , these provisions may be no more than a programme laid before the full witan , and perhaps preached to it . |
| 48 | You could be described as being no more than a brain on wheels or a brain stuck in a chair . |
| 49 | Apart from one or two struggling and shrivelled survivors , the roses were no more than a memory . |
| 50 | You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most . |
| 51 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 52 | as if history were no more than a dream . |
| 53 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 54 | He bent , seized my wrist , and dragged me towards him as if I were no more than a doll . |
| 55 | But this confused political and economic independence , as if politics were no more than a reflex of economics . |
| 56 | And he had spoken of her as though she were no more than a female to be used and then discarded . |
| 57 | But to press into service , as though it were no more than a compendium of useful organs , the body of a servant , a friend — and a friend , at that , who died for a crime attributable to one 's own negligence — well , this moral madness placed him beyond human consideration . |
| 58 | I were no more than a lad myself . |
| 59 | It preferred , apparently , to revel blindly in its senses , as though life were no more than a rout of appetite and sensation rather than the dream of gold she sought to share . |
| 60 | Removed long before the shells had time to form , they were no more than a cluster of marble-sized orange balls in a thick yolky substance . |