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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | How will it , without a list or register , determine whether a household is a single or a two-person household ? |
| 11 | The effect of such an order under the Act is the same as a discharge in bankruptcy . |
| 12 | A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along . |
| 13 | The digital AC motor speed controller is no bigger than a filofax . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Again Mungo had the sensation that the village was no more than a clearing ; a space borrowed from the forest . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 20 | The damper was no more than a thin sheet of steel inserted into the stovepipe . |
| 21 | For some , the Council was no more than a prudent but much misunderstood attempt to update a few relatively minor matters . |
| 22 | The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child . |
| 23 | Sure , she had indulged in the occasional uncharitable observation that his affection for the child was no more than a front . |
| 24 | Mr Gillespie maintained that the correspondence was no more than a stage in negotiations and that there was no final agreement . |
| 25 | When the first CPR train reached Vancouver on 23 May 1888 , the depot on the waterfront was no larger than a wooden shed . |
| 26 | In this context , the video disc is no more than a peripheral to the computer , much as any external disc drive might be . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However gifted , a theatre director is no more than a metteur en scène . |