Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] more [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from one or two struggling and shrivelled survivors , the roses were no more than a memory . |
| 2 | You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most . |
| 3 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 4 | as if history were no more than a dream . |
| 5 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 6 | He bent , seized my wrist , and dragged me towards him as if I were no more than a doll . |
| 7 | But this confused political and economic independence , as if politics were no more than a reflex of economics . |
| 8 | And he had spoken of her as though she were no more than a female to be used and then discarded . |
| 9 | But to press into service , as though it were no more than a compendium of useful organs , the body of a servant , a friend — and a friend , at that , who died for a crime attributable to one 's own negligence — well , this moral madness placed him beyond human consideration . |
| 10 | I were no more than a lad myself . |
| 11 | It preferred , apparently , to revel blindly in its senses , as though life were no more than a rout of appetite and sensation rather than the dream of gold she sought to share . |
| 12 | Removed long before the shells had time to form , they were no more than a cluster of marble-sized orange balls in a thick yolky substance . |
| 13 | A race lost , a father murdered , a career on the skids — they were no more than the opening scenes of a nightmare which was engulfing her . |
| 14 | Nor would the view serve any purpose , including the purpose for which it was devised , if it were no more than the idea that particular episodes of consciousness-say desiring-can be identified by their causal roles , where such identification does not give us their nature , or all of their nature . |
| 15 | They were no more than the truth , but now his mother would ring Victoria and Emma and they would ring him and it would be one question after another until he went completely mad and started calling for humming-bird sandwiches or something . |
| 16 | Mr Johnston said this week 's reform talks were no more than the overture to a long debate that would run into the winter and become embroiled in GATT negotiations . |
| 17 | By now few proposals could be judged on their merits , only according to which national group put them forward ( or rather , each proposal was identified as if it were no more than the product of a national group ) . |
| 18 | Leeds began as if their miserable Anfield record was no more than a myth and Liverpool had the indignity of being pinned in their penalty area in front of an affronted Kop . |
| 19 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 20 | Now another life was about to begin , one in which she was no more than a surname and number , a woman who had lifted her hand in salute and sworn allegiance to King and country . |
| 21 | It was no more than a change of emphasis , but it emboldened the opposition . |
| 22 | He was searching for ‘ his class ’ , which he never found , and talked about ‘ the laboratory ’ , which was no more than a back kitchen with a bunsen burner and running water . |
| 23 | But Malebranche rejected various parts of Descartes 's proof , concluding that theoretically the material world was no more than a possibility , and could be accepted only on the basis of faith . |
| 24 | I remember when Sarah Riddle was no more than a schoolgirl she was had up for … ’ |
| 25 | The manager thought his lunchtime call to Anfield was no more than a formality . |
| 26 | It was no more than a flip ad-lib . |
| 27 | He said Popova and Klyun were unoriginal , adding that there was nothing interesting about them , while Rodchenko was no more than a photographer . |
| 28 | With prescience Ho proclaimed : ‘ Great as was the victory it was no more than a beginning . ’ |
| 29 | The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child . |
| 30 | They seemed to smell the air and if a lone bird hove in sight , they 'd pick it up when it was no more than a speck and watch it till it disappeared , and everything about it would be important to them — the direction of its flight , the way it flew , its height above the water , and so on . |