Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [art] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 2 | Other memories are no more than a nutshell description , a fleeting image , perhaps of an eccentricity . |
| 3 | Important [ but unrecognized ] though they may be to the man in the street , functional methacrylates are no more than a small side-branch in ICI 's acrylic chain . |
| 4 | The article implies that district societies are no more than a local practitioners ' club . |
| 5 | In what sense do these mark a crossroads while the others are no more than a widening of the road ? |
| 6 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 7 | Apart from one or two struggling and shrivelled survivors , the roses were no more than a memory . |
| 8 | It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise . |
| 9 | Those marks are no more than a few weeks old , that 's certain , but within that time no one knows when they were made . |