Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that in some countries the president was no more than a decorative figure . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The little square was relatively sheltered , and in the hall the gale was no more than a distant , muffled roar . |
| 4 | Again Mungo had the sensation that the village was no more than a clearing ; a space borrowed from the forest . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 7 | The damper was no more than a thin sheet of steel inserted into the stovepipe . |
| 8 | For some , the Council was no more than a prudent but much misunderstood attempt to update a few relatively minor matters . |
| 9 | The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child . |
| 10 | Sure , she had indulged in the occasional uncharitable observation that his affection for the child was no more than a front . |
| 11 | Mr Gillespie maintained that the correspondence was no more than a stage in negotiations and that there was no final agreement . |
| 12 | When the first CPR train reached Vancouver on 23 May 1888 , the depot on the waterfront was no larger than a wooden shed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 16 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 17 | Little Billy could see this clearly despite the fact that the whole of the tiny man 's head was no larger than a pea . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet . |
| 20 | Mr. Barnes ' affidavit showed no more than that the Bank might exercise their own supervisory function once they had the result of the Federal Reserve Board inquiry in their hands , so that supervision was no more than a secondary purpose which did not qualify . |
| 21 | At Christchurch the original station was no more than a collection of sheds , but in 1877 it was replaced by a long Gothic structure — a rare example in the southern hemisphere — which looked like a succession of chapels at right angles to the platforms with a connecting range running between them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 24 | There was Mrs Moore , the dentist 's wife , mother of his friend who had committed suicide because life did not seem worth living ; and there was Mary Johnson 's mother looking as prim as a prune , not knowing that her daughter was no better than a streetwalker . |
| 25 | Perhaps the dinner on the terrace by candlelight was no more than a helpful suggestion intended to add to their pleasure in ‘ La Felicità ’ , as was the idea of a trip across the Mountains of the Moon to Urbino . |
| 26 | His voice was no more than a faint whisper now but it was as if his words were spraying vitriol on her face , because she tossed her head from side to side as if throwing off the spray . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ferrari chose to hide its two-pedal Mondial on component supplier Valeo 's stand in the faint hope of convincing people its clutchless transmission was no more than a experimental engineering car . |
| 29 | According to his view , congress was no more than a ‘ herd of mediocrities ’ where , ‘ members consume time in enormous quantities in their quaint Congressional processes . |
| 30 | as if history were no more than a dream . |