Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman says that a training levy is the same as a selective employment tax . |
| 2 | For the purpose of the law of libel a hearsay statement is the same as a direct statement , and that is all there is to it . " |
| 3 | That 's the same as a full jumbo jet crashing at Heathrow every day of the week and two on Sunday . |
| 4 | You draw a line and you know at once whether it 's a good or a bad line . |
| 5 | Do you have any thoughts as to whether it 's a good or a bad thing that food is produced artificially , as it were ? |
| 6 | Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom . |
| 7 | THE gleam in President Gorbachev 's eye is no less than a new Marshall Plan to reorganise the Soviet Union 's economy , financed by the world 's seven leading industrial countries , the G7 . |
| 8 | The AP1-88 is only as noisy as a major road at a distance of 100 m to 200 m , and at I km is no noisier than a quiet residential area . |
| 9 | In overall archival terms the venture is no more than a holding operation . |
| 10 | It 's reassuring to get things into some kind of cosmic perspective , to realize that the total of man 's activity is no more than a faint line on the infinite creativity of God 's hand . ’ |
| 11 | It would be dangerous to suggest that this impossibility is in any strong sense theoretical , i.e. open to mathematical proof , and I will assume it is no more than a strong empirical impossibility . |
| 12 | Although this is no more than a metaphorical description , it nevertheless serves to give some idea of what these relations are like . |
| 13 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 14 | Subject to these provisos , the proposal is no more than a logical development of the original WEA practice of asking the University to provide teaching facilities through Joint Committee procedure . |
| 15 | I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels , but if I have no love my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell . |
| 16 | Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage . |
| 17 | Vienna Dear Fräulein , I hope and believe the sad condition you describe is no more than a temporary fantasy . |
| 18 | The body is no more than a temporary earthly frame for a separate special creation ; it is the soul rather than the body which is endowed with intelligence , sense perception and moral judgement . |
| 19 | In 1987 , soul is no more than a packed vehicle beating a hasty retreat from what are perceived as the excesses of white modernism . |
| 20 | That sense will in most cases resolve itself into the question of whether the comment was honestly made , which is no more than a defining characteristic of " fair comment " in the first place . |
| 21 | This is highly efficient , but is no more than a slight modification of the normal skin-shedding process — quite an easy evolutionary step for any reptilian species to make , especially in comparison with the ‘ natural ligature ’ device in the lizard 's tail . |
| 22 | Zenith 's knowledge of Acme 's program is no more than a competent user would achieve — possible infringement of copyright because the structure of Zenith 's program is determined by Zenith 's familiarity with the structure of Acme 's program which Zenith copies indirectly , although the Computer Associates test , discussed above , might reduce protection . |
| 23 | Even the gourd comes off better than the poor whale , who is no more than a floating prison where Jonah spends three days purging his contempt of court . |
| 24 | Both sexes like the idea that women pretend , men because it confirms their suspicion that their partners are basically frigid and devious manipulators , women because it gives them a delicious sense of power to think that the delirium which men fondly ascribe to their virile prowess is no more than a hollow civility , like laughing at Grandpa 's jokes . |
| 25 | At the seaward end , it is no more than a good stone 's throw from the Atlantic beach but at a higher level , its issuing stream descending through a short wooded ravine to join the waters of the ocean . |
| 26 | ‘ Even 500 metres distance is no more than a good shot , it is n't marksman or sniper qualification . ’ |
| 27 | It is no more than a consistent point of view , which has the advantage that , if we accept it , we can stop arguing about whether feelings are causes of actions , and can get on with finding out how our brains work , without fearing that an answer to the question would make free will an illusion . |
| 28 | What is being proposed at the moment , however , is no more than a certain view of our conception of causation . |
| 29 | In this context , the video disc is no more than a peripheral to the computer , much as any external disc drive might be . |
| 30 | In Some cases , those where laws have been enacted , this will be justified , but for those that remain mere hopes it is no more than a persuasive figure of speech . |