Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom .
2 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 .
3 The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989 .
4 He said that in some countries the president was no more than a decorative figure .
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 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 .
8 Circumstances and what may amount to encouragement by the victim may sometimes mitigate the offence and , particularly under such conditions , impulsive or specifically planned rape is no more than an offence — it can hardly be thought of as deviant in the true sense of the word .
9 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 .
10 If a work is no more than an illustration of what I projected , it 's useless .
11 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 .
12 How will it , without a list or register , determine whether a household is a single or a two-person household ?
13 Section 6 , like many other sections of the Act is no more than an attempt to put into an Act of Parliament a rule of common law .
14 The effect of such an order under the Act is the same as a discharge in bankruptcy .
15 A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along .
16 The digital AC motor speed controller is no bigger than a filofax .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The International Squash Players ' Association said it will take action this week on the 20-year-old Pakistani , and the likelihood is a fine and a zero point score for the World Open .
20 Again Mungo had the sensation that the village was no more than a clearing ; a space borrowed from the forest .
21 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 .
22 Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place .
23 The damper was no more than a thin sheet of steel inserted into the stovepipe .
24 For some , the Council was no more than a prudent but much misunderstood attempt to update a few relatively minor matters .
25 The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child .
26 Sure , she had indulged in the occasional uncharitable observation that his affection for the child was no more than a front .
27 Mr Gillespie maintained that the correspondence was no more than a stage in negotiations and that there was no final agreement .
28 When the first CPR train reached Vancouver on 23 May 1888 , the depot on the waterfront was no larger than a wooden shed .
29 In this context , the video disc is no more than a peripheral to the computer , much as any external disc drive might be .
30 THE gleam in President Gorbachev 's eye is no less than a new Marshall Plan to reorganise the Soviet Union 's economy , financed by the world 's seven leading industrial countries , the G7 .
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