Example sentences of "[was/were] [indef pn] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his view , the revelation of God in Jesus Christ , and the repairing and restoring of fallen human nature brought about through it , were nothing less than a miraculous new beginning , an act of creative divine power , whose discontinuity from what had preceded it was signalled by the double miracle of Jesus ' birth from a virgin and his resurrection from the grave . |
| 2 | They were nothing more than a lousy bunch of down and outs , students ( same thing in my book ) , and back-packing evangelists with acne . |
| 3 | If it was nothing other than a short-term political fix … and then all of the 31 pits that had been threatened were to close , that would be completely unacceptable . ’ |
| 4 | Winston Churchill ( C , Davyhulme ) said : ‘ If it was nothing other than a short-term political fix I do not believe it would get through the House of Commons . |
| 5 | The room was nothing more than a dry , musty cell . |
| 6 | She had repeatedly told herself her response to his touch was nothing more than a temporary aberration on her part , that familiarity must inevitably breed contempt , that sooner or later she would feel nothing more than irritation . |
| 7 | One complainant wrote to say that this milestone in the study of human sexuality was nothing more than a complete waste of time and simply confirmed the writer 's conviction that ‘ the male population is a herd of prancing , leering goats ’ . |
| 8 | Still she lifted her chin slightly and tried to ignore the media attention , knowing that it was all really centred on Ace and that she was nothing more than a decorative addition to his charismatic presence . |
| 9 | ‘ It was nothing more than a mental aberration on my part . ’ |
| 10 | The house was nothing more than a front wall . |
| 11 | The immediate reaction was that the discovery of Pluto was nothing more than a small-scale diversion : there must be a tenth planet out there , and a very large planet at that . |
| 12 | As far as he was concerned she was nothing more than a time-and-labour-saving device required for the voyage . |
| 13 | Thus , between 1744 and 1767 , Hermann Samuel Reimarus , a professor at Hamburg , had argued that Jesus was nothing more than a failed Judaic revolutionary whose body was removed from its tomb by his disciples . |
| 14 | Lucille 's home was very grandly called a château , though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm with a crenellated tower to remind passers-by that the building had once been a small fortress . |
| 15 | Which was nothing more than a sideways stab at NME hipness coupled with a nod towards the absurd fitness fad . |
| 16 | Implexion was sure she was nothing more than a spoiled and pampered daughter of a rich house , as ill-prepared for privation as it was possible to be . |
| 17 | In her early days as a singer she had encountered those who had wrongly assumed she was nothing more than a beautiful but empty-headed blonde . |
| 18 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 19 | In truth the TV realisation of Poet 's Corner , Westminster Abbey was nothing more than a photographic blow-up , and the monster just the latex-coated hands of writer Nigel Kneale sticking out through a hole in the picture . |
| 20 | Because , of course , the Counterweight Continent was nothing more than a solar myth . |
| 21 | Why did she let herself feel so safe with him , when to him she was nothing more than a hot-tempered child with a woman 's body ? |
| 22 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , France developed what was nothing less than a long-term naval strategy . |
| 23 | Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to bring computers and ordinary people together . |
| 24 | What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution . |
| 25 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |
| 26 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
| 27 | It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front . |
| 28 | Photography is 80 per cent casting , and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face . |
| 29 | But as his eyes travelled across to Elinor 's crowd , with their frizzy haloes of hair , their flowered dresses and carefully arranged profiles , he realized that there was nothing he could think of to say that would persuade them he was anything other than a boring little man . |
| 30 | → I do n't think that our look at the Carlton Combo was anything other than a fair , unbiased review of a new product which just happens to incorporate a different technology along the way . |