Example sentences of "[is] no [det] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To experience two within the same day is no less than a catastrophe . |
| 2 | The ensuing dilemma that arts educators find themselves in is no less than the struggle to transform reality into something which more fully reflects the astounding potential that both boys and girls have to construct their own lives ; to make their own mark . |
| 3 | Christian marriage is no less than the unity of two people , living out the reality of Christ 's coming , death and resurrection in their lives together . |
| 4 | This battle , which is still raging , is no less than the fight between good and evil : the war between God and the Devil . |
| 5 | This battle , I have argued , is no less than the fight between God and the Devil . |
| 6 | The Emperor is no more than a boy . |
| 7 | Moreover , Lord Cross 's appeal to the meaning of the word rape in common usage and the ordinary man 's understanding of rape is no more than a pretext for introducing his own view of what rape means . |
| 8 | This is no more than a sparring round , however , for the defection of Thursday 's Sandown winner , Satin Lover , realistically leaves only Duke of Monmouth to take on Mick Easterby 's pretender to the hurdling crown . |
| 9 | It may be that Barbara Gilmour 's place in Ayrshire 's history is no more than a myth , but that she existed can not be disputed . |
| 10 | Tuttle , by maintaining that the Laetoli prints are closer to Homo than the Hadar foot bones , and that different species were involved , is falling very much into the Leakey camp which believes that the earliest ’ true man ’ is more likely to be found in Tanzania than in Ethiopia , and that A afarensis is no more than a sub-branch of evolution . |
| 11 | In some sense this is no more than a public relations exercise , albeit a difficult one . |
| 12 | The GP in this social world — far from being an expert — is no more than a layperson , with the same prejudices as others . |
| 13 | Modern scientific man thinks that he is no more than a chance arrangement of dust and water , of molecules — though he may acknowledge that the atoms and molecules , indeed all life forms , are highly ordered and organized ! |
| 14 | Sometimes this is no more than a description of what has to be done but sometimes it incorporates how the operator does it or should do it . |
| 15 | As an identity , the quantity theory is no more than a way of calculating the velocity of circulation . |
| 16 | The syllabus , after all , is no more than a sketch of the terrain ; the scheme of work is a strategic plan which identifies objectives and tactics , and which allows for review and reinforcement . |
| 17 | As well as making claims about the efficiency of markets , the theory denies the existence of producer power , at the same time drawing a reassuring analogy with democratic control in the political sphere : corporate behaviour is no more than a reflection of the popular will , expressed not through the ballot box , but via individual purchase decisions . |
| 18 | However gifted , a theatre director is no more than a metteur en scène . |
| 19 | Vaughan 's constant sense that he was one of life 's outsiders , never a participant , that he was always ‘ trying to hold on to a reality which is no more than a projection of my own nerves ’ , made him sympathetic to the blighted , visionary anti-hero in Benjamin Britten 's opera , Peter Grimes , the première of which marked the reopening of the Sadler 's Wells Theatre after the war . |
| 20 | Egoism , then , is no more than a terminus towards which interacting individuals are pushed by competition . |
| 21 | Indeed , we must suspect that under the interests theory the criterion of personal responsibility is no more than a function of social policy : the more highly the interest is regarded , the closer we are drawn towards unlimited personal responsibility . |
| 22 | What I do find difficult to swallow — we argued long about this — is some strange belief of his that the world is immaterial and that humanity ( if I have it correctly ) is no more than a kind of metaphysical construct projected by nature and relying on words rather than flesh for its continued existence . |
| 23 | She likes it here but that place she 's got is no more than a hole in the wall . |
| 24 | The simplest home of all , of course , is no more than a hole . |
| 25 | Writing is no more than a secondary , graphic representation of language ’ ( quoted by Lyons 1970 : 18 ) . |
| 26 | This is no more than a statement of fact ; throughout the Nixon years the opposition party held large majorities in both Houses of Congress ; the bureaucracy was thick with Democrats and the national media , at least , tended to be markedly hostile . |
| 27 | ‘ Labour 's supposed conversion to multilateralism is no more than a confidence trick to try to make Labour electable . |
| 28 | Superficially it is no more than a succession of parallel layers . |
| 29 | And yet it is no more than a nine-horse race , even if one of the teams is more pony than stallion , and no extreme predictions will be found in this column ; the taste of the printed page proved far too unpalatable in 1983 , when criticism of India , eventual World Cup winners , was duly exposed as unwarranted and the urgent suggestion that one should eat one 's words was honourably met . |
| 30 | Its defence has been largely the concern of other powers since the fall of Singapore in 1942 ; and the British independent nuclear deterrent is no more than a phrase , since it is not independent and , as the Falklands crisis of 1982 showed , it does not deter . |