Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rhetoric may point to extreme scepticism or Pyrrhonism but its users , if pressed , are likely to retreat to positions which are no more than a modified version of traditional ones . |
| 2 | Individuals ' 'ego ideals ' are seen as being systematically transferred to charismatic leader figures , organisations and the values ( including those of family , church and patriarchal authority ) which are no less than a displaced version of the all-providing ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ figure of childhood . |
| 3 | A gravel tidy , which is no more than a fine plastic mesh , should then be laid over the coarse medium and should be neatly trimmed to fit snugly into all the corners and around the uplifts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It may be possible to reconcile the seismic evidence with fractured rock beneath the lava , which is no more than a few kilometres thick , particularly if the first few sheets that flowed were heavily fractured and were then covered by the sheets we see today . |
| 6 | And far more likely is the dining room which is no more than a corner of another room . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The price surprised him : you get a lot of car for just over £20,000 , if only in terms of its length , which is the same as a Mercedes 260E and a couple of inches more than the 5-series BMWs . |
| 9 | any name which is the same as a name appearing in the index of names kept by the Registrar of Companies ( s. 714 ) ; |
| 10 | Happily , these include some of the most desperate cases , like Borringdon , a once-magnificent Elizabethan house outside Plymouth which was no more than a gutted shell clinging to a precipice , but today is a comfortable country house hotel . |
| 11 | The farmer who sold it was happy to rid himself of a wreck which was no more than a dangerous playground . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |
| 15 | What is no more than a side effect of the operation of preferential voting is misrepresented by the propagandists as the consequence of purposeful calculation . |
| 16 | If people say that it is wrong that teachers should be allowed , even encouraged , to tell pupils that it is acceptable to live in a household in a particular form of sexual relationship , that goes beyond what is a proper and a responsible training for life in society . ’ |
| 17 | Lukic charged out and seemed to hit him in what was no more than a 50–50 challenge . |