Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [art] more [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 2 | The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989 . |
| 3 | He said that in some countries the president was no more than a decorative figure . |
| 4 | Wednesday survived some fearsome pressure until Hirst 's strike provided enough breathing space to ensure Monkou 's 79th-minute reply was no more than a consolation goal . |
| 5 | The little square was relatively sheltered , and in the hall the gale was no more than a distant , muffled roar . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This capacity is no more than a device to enable the organisation to act , and should not be seen as either creating or weighing against an agency relationship . |
| 8 | Subject to these provisos , the proposal is no more than a logical development of the original WEA practice of asking the University to provide teaching facilities through Joint Committee procedure . |
| 9 | A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along . |
| 10 | A successful program of this type is no more than a computerization of traditional classroom method , and it will teach most children effectively , with the added advantages of constant individual attention and limitless patience . |
| 11 | Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage . |
| 12 | Again Mungo had the sensation that the village was no more than a clearing ; a space borrowed from the forest . |
| 13 | Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable . |
| 14 | The damper was no more than a thin sheet of steel inserted into the stovepipe . |
| 15 | For some , the Council was no more than a prudent but much misunderstood attempt to update a few relatively minor matters . |
| 16 | The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child . |
| 17 | Sure , she had indulged in the occasional uncharitable observation that his affection for the child was no more than a front . |
| 18 | Mr Gillespie maintained that the correspondence was no more than a stage in negotiations and that there was no final agreement . |
| 19 | In this context , the video disc is no more than a peripheral to the computer , much as any external disc drive might be . |
| 20 | A number of changes will have occurred : it will have lost ten to fifteen per cent of its weight through loss of water ; the cell structures in the meat will have broken down ; the proteins will have changed into individual amino acids ( developing the flavour ) ; the muscle filaments — yes , the noble carcass is no more than a collection of muscles , bone and fat — will have broken down a bit and become more tender . |
| 21 | If each party has his own private end to gain , but yet the joint aim is no more than a desire for prosperity or peace in industry , there is no tort . |
| 22 | However gifted , a theatre director is no more than a metteur en scène . |
| 23 | In my view the body is no more than a bag , a costume or a cover and I 'm altering it to be more in line with how I see myself . ’ |
| 24 | The body is no more than a temporary earthly frame for a separate special creation ; it is the soul rather than the body which is endowed with intelligence , sense perception and moral judgement . |
| 25 | Among the estate 's residents , the fact that several people have been charged or convicted of offences against the Ks cuts no ice : the estate version is that what took place was no more than a personal vendetta , between Ramesh K and the man who broke his nose . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Even 500 metres distance is no more than a good shot , it is n't marksman or sniper qualification . ’ |
| 29 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 30 | Taxation is no more than a quantification machinery by means of which the recoverable amount of costs , disbursements , expenses , etc. is ascertained . |