Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [art] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ music ] But as this music fades into the Interlude the E/F figure is suddenly no more than a detail in the seascape , a gull 's cry perhaps or a slight turbulence on the water [ 3 ] . |
| 2 | However , her categorisation is unprincipled in the sense that it does not really relate types of metaphor to each other , and is thus no more than a typology of poetic examples . |
| 3 | But it is still no more than a performance . |
| 4 | Sasbach is really no more than a scatter of houses , a couple of shops , a garage and a church set down in the middle of vineyards and orchards . |
| 5 | Dent Town is really no more than a village , although it may not be prudent to say so in the hearing of the residents . |
| 6 | Ryle 's positive point , in his Royal Institute of philosophy lecture , that Le Penseur 's thinking is to be understood in terms of that of the tennis player , is different from Wittgenstein 's positive point , in 88 to 136 or thereabouts , but particularly in 100–103 , which might now be expressed by saying that ‘ I thought … ’ is like ‘ I meant … ’ ( see above ) , though this way of putting it is really no more than a hint as to his meaning . |
| 7 | For his concept of ‘ interpellation ’ fails to explain the mechanism by which subjects are constituted , and is really no more than a redescription of its own result . |
| 8 | As millions of rail travellers will testify , the ‘ service ’ is now no more than a sick joke . |
| 9 | The injury temporarily blinded one eye and gave him double vision in the other , but is now no more than a bruise , said his wife . |
| 10 | So , where for the great mass of its members , the success of a consumer co-operative is now no more than a matter of marginal interest to them , for the members of an industrial co-operative it is quite otherwise . |
| 11 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 12 | Depending on the time of year , the Chelt at this point is often no more than a trickle , although after heavy rain it can rapidly become a muddy torrent , rushing through the fields ( and now beneath the M5 motorway ) , via Butlers Court , to the next mill at Boddington . |
| 13 | This may depend on their level of awareness , or , as Edward de Bono puts it in his Second Law of Thinking , what appears to be ‘ proof ’ is often no more than a lack of imagination in providing an alternative explanation . |
| 14 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 15 | Any broader benefit to less glamorous plants and animals is often no more than a happy accident . |
| 16 | The temperature rise is often no more than a degree or two . |