Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [art] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until that first excursion most travellers for pleasure were the wealthy and the aristocracy who travelled independently ; less privileged people travelled only through necessity . |
| 2 | Production-wise , The Quatermass Experiment was the same as The Time Machine , save for two small , but significant additions . |
| 3 | He said that in some countries the president was no more than a decorative figure . |
| 4 | The apex of military command was the same as the apex of the civilian structure . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The little square was relatively sheltered , and in the hall the gale was no more than a distant , muffled roar . |
| 7 | Again Mungo had the sensation that the village was no more than a clearing ; a space borrowed from the forest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 10 | The damper was no more than a thin sheet of steel inserted into the stovepipe . |
| 11 | The boy 's fate was the last and the least reverberation of that disastrous thunder , but not the least pitiful . |
| 12 | For some , the Council was no more than a prudent but much misunderstood attempt to update a few relatively minor matters . |
| 13 | On the one hand there have been those who have claimed that , at least in the early days , the campaign was no more than the minority group Moral Re-Armament ( MRA ) by a different name ; on the other there is Mrs Whitehouse herself , who clearly believes that the organisation represents the ‘ silent majority ’ in the country . |
| 14 | The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child . |
| 15 | Sure , she had indulged in the occasional uncharitable observation that his affection for the child was no more than a front . |
| 16 | Britain 's jobless rate edged down to 5.6% in February , but the fall was the smallest since the present decline began in 1986 . |
| 17 | Mr Gillespie maintained that the correspondence was no more than a stage in negotiations and that there was no final agreement . |
| 18 | When the first CPR train reached Vancouver on 23 May 1888 , the depot on the waterfront was no larger than a wooden shed . |
| 19 | He concluded that , albeit the discretion he had under section 78 of the Act of 1984 might be wider than the discretion at common law , the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion was being exercised at common law or under the statute , that paragraph C10.1 had no application to the situation , and that admission of the challenged evidence would not have an adverse effect on the fairness of the trial within section 78 . |
| 20 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , in considering the discretion to exclude evidence on the ground of unfairness , it could not sensibly be judged by different standards depending on the source of the discretion , for the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion arose at common law or under section 78 of the Act of 1984 ; and that , since the judge had considered the operation including obtaining the fingerprints as a whole , the exercise of his discretion was not only not unreasonable but was correct ( post , pp. 234H — 235A , 236A ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | My answer to that long intervention is that I did not say that a payroll tax was the same as the selective employment tax . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 25 | The Old Testament laws endeavoured to ensure that punishment was no greater than the offence , and in any case was less than private retribution . |
| 26 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 27 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 28 | Little Billy could see this clearly despite the fact that the whole of the tiny man 's head was no larger than a pea . |
| 29 | None the less , some statements by members of the Association reveal that the effacement required by this procedure was no more than a tactical ploy , since one of the dominant assumptions of moral education was " that morality was to be made a conscious aim of the teacher , but concealed from the pupils , who were to imbibe the influence from literature as habit or experience " . |
| 30 | The 36th annual event was the last before the Milk Marketing Board disappears in its present form , although an announcement is expected before the end of this month on what involvement , if any , their successors , Milk Marque , will retain in Britain 's national tour . |