Example sentences of "[was/were] no [det] than a [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 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was no more than a change of emphasis , but it emboldened the opposition . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I remember when Sarah Riddle was no more than a schoolgirl she was had up for … ’ |
| 20 | The manager thought his lunchtime call to Anfield was no more than a formality . |
| 21 | It was no more than a flip ad-lib . |
| 22 | He said Popova and Klyun were unoriginal , adding that there was nothing interesting about them , while Rodchenko was no more than a photographer . |
| 23 | With prescience Ho proclaimed : ‘ Great as was the victory it was no more than a beginning . ’ |
| 24 | The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Again Mungo had the sensation that the village was no more than a clearing ; a space borrowed from the forest . |
| 27 | Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley . |
| 28 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |
| 29 | For most horses it 's a big fence , but to him it was no more than a hurdle . |
| 30 | The likeness was there , Master Harry 's divination had been marvellously guided ; but he had carved a man , and this , after all , was no more than a boy , not yet grown . |