Example sentences of "[be] anything more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | After only five days in the complex and , to almost all of us , unfamiliar environment of Lewis and Harris , our views can not be anything more than initial impressions . |
| 2 | This book is refreshing in its simplicity , in that it does n't pretend to be anything more than what it is — a love story . |
| 3 | These need not be anything more than the rough headings under which the detailed questions will fall . |
| 4 | These can never be anything more than very rough and ready guidelines . |
| 5 | I 'm not sure that rock'n'roll should be anything more than joyous noise — maybe ultimately one that means nothing , but then so what … ? ’ |
| 6 | If you guys really want to be anything more than a footnote in the annals of British history get this — ‘ Egalitarianism is for Losers ’ . |
| 7 | He had not told her initially because he was by no means sure that she would be anything more than just another fling and , in his quest for an easy life , did not want to complicate things by admitting the relationship . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Cairo is too far away to be anything more than just a stake in the ground against IBM/Apple Computer Inc while the hoopla surrounding Windows For Workgroups is meant to distract attention away from an increasingly late NT . |
| 10 | To put it another way , bargaining provides the cement essential if the American polity is to be anything more than a conglomeration of unintegrated fragments . |
| 11 | None of this criticism is aimed directly at Kylie , who does , in all fairness , endeavour to instill some life into a bunch of staid , production-line work outs that could never be anything more than pointless . |
| 12 | His mate was never to know that this could be anything more than wishful thinking . |
| 13 | You know you 're never going to be anything more than Julius 's secretary . ’ |
| 14 | Could it be anything more than a compulsion to take the eternal conflict between the sexes to the ultimate battleground ? |
| 15 | The groups themselves need very careful organising if the work is to be anything more than structured play . |
| 16 | Clearly this , had it really existed , would have threatened his livelihood , but there is no evidence of its being anything more than imaginary . |
| 17 | Very few of the stations on what was built of the Cape to Cairo railway were anything more than small wayside halts . |
| 18 | ‘ We had a glass of wine , but she refused to admit they were anything more than very good friends . |
| 19 | He kept petitioning Amenophis to restrict the granting of golden battle honours — not that the battles were anything more than skirmishes then . ’ |
| 20 | He challenges the notion that local government is anything more than local administration , whose claim to be government is merely another reflection of the high self-regard in which officials hold themselves rather than any expression of locally based decision-making . |
| 21 | Unlike some of its competitors , Bull says it has yet to work out whether or not Posix compatibility for proprietary systems is anything more than a marketing gimmick , and so it has not yet embarked on the expensive process of adapting the GCOS operating systems to comply with Posix . |
| 22 | Michael Middleton might argue ‘ that Minton is aware of man , … in relation to nature , to his self-constructed civilisation , to the passing moment , ’ but his failure to establish for his figures a setting that is anything more than a backcloth , limited the humanism inherent in his work , as well as its social or political relevance . |
| 23 | Some evidence for a layered structure was found , but whether this is anything more than a local feature is unknown . |
| 24 | He was too much of a loser to have been anything more than a hired hand . |
| 25 | S.A. 's STEROID TIME BOMB Never have rumours of steroid abuse in rugby been anything more than that — rumours . |
| 26 | But is there any real evidence that such zodiacs are anything more than the product of an overactive imagination ? |
| 27 | ‘ That you are anything more than good friends ? |
| 28 | In particular , what much of it fails to do is to convince all but a handful of academic specialists that its closely delineated studies are anything more than detailed local knowledge , an interesting but benign academic pursuit . |
| 29 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 30 | Looking at his froggy face , half-submerged in the murky water , it was hard to believe that he really was anything more than an ordinary frog , and Mildred could see why no one had recognized her when she was in the same plight . |