Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [adj] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In all probability it really had been nothing more than a prank . |
2 | All the tenderness he 'd shown her had been nothing more than a sham , just a front to convince the interested public that they were lovers . |
3 | The slenderest patients , those whose faces are nothing more than a triangle of bone around the eyes , they 're Musselmänner : not , as I first thought , as an ironical glance at musclemen . |
4 | " Your saints are nothing more than a lot of mischief-makers . " |
5 | Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting . |
6 | ‘ Are you aware that a drugs ring is being operated in the club ? ’ he asked abruptly . |
7 | This is because in England there is no statute or code setting out the law governing the continuing care of the terminally ill ; nor are there more than a handful of cases that have been decided by the courts.l None the less , legal principles undoubtedly do exist and obviously condition the choices made by doctors . |
8 | This ‘ outsider ’ stance is , of course , nothing new , and if it bore the bulk of the band 's appeal , would be nothing more than a gimmick in itself . |
9 | It could be nothing more than a speculation , since at that point levels of attainment had no meaning other than their definition in the Report . |
10 | " Might it be nothing more than a girl ? " |
11 | It has proved , at the first time of asking in Test cricket , to be nothing more than a wrist-slapper . |
12 | The father 's solicitors appear to have thought perhaps otherwise and that the hearing on 27 January would be nothing more than a formality . |
13 | Reading is a process of identification with a work and a faithful reading will be nothing more than a word for word repetition of the text . |
14 | Determination , dedication and self-discipline may not fit the image but , without them , the boy from Black Rock , Victoria , would probably be nothing more than a beach bum right now . |
15 | If a lake is built behind the barrage , it will be nothing more than a sewage pit . |
16 | To her , language seemed to be nothing more than a means of discovering the price of butter or exchanging views about the weather . |
17 | Add in Edith Cresson 's political affiliation , plus her deserved reputation for dirigisme , and the freshly coined sobriquet ‘ Edithatcher ’ seems to be nothing more than a phrase-monger 's fancy . |
18 | A major reason for this unconcern is that various fraudsters who have operated in the field have given ESP a bad name : underfunded scientists have far better things to investigate than a phenomenon which seems , on the basis of the available evidence , to be nothing more than a farrago . |
19 | It turned out to be nothing more than a charter for busybodies , lacking muscle and new money . |
20 | Buddhists of the Northern school of China and Japan evolved their own theory of grace and came to believe in the Buddha as a Saviour , though in the earliest Scriptures he himself claimed to be nothing more than a teacher , a shower of the way . |
21 | Even if he 'd shown any signs at all of wanting to have her around — which he had n't — she 'd be nothing more than a burden . |
22 | If IBM has any sense ( which is in itself a topic worthy of serious consideration ) it will offer versions of its engine for the entire ES/9000 range ; should it do so , the 9221 version might be nothing larger than a circuit board or two that fits in a standard rack . |
23 | To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket . |
24 | Because BS knows all the facts about the brain state , and the experience just is the brain state , then what the experience is like must be something other than a fact about the experience . |
25 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
26 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
27 | How could this right of election be anything other than a fiction if the breach of the term in all circumstances deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should receive ? |
28 | It 's as good a theory as any to explain it , because lord knows I never intended this to be anything other than a business arrangement . ’ |
29 | Could it be anything more than a compulsion to take the eternal conflict between the sexes to the ultimate battleground ? |
30 | Yet when one starts to look at the overall picture a little more deeply , will the obvious strengthening of what will be nine single Championship weeks , be anything more than a move which enables the rich to get richer and actually sets into motion what could become a long term contraction , rather than expansion of the sport , especially if the much-needed revival in the world economy takes longer to become bullish than some of the optimists have been forecasting . |