Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [art] [adj] [conj] 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	By 2.00 though the pains were every one and a half minutes and I was only 2cms dilated. was sitting eating sandwiches and I was starving hungry .
5	The prices are the same as a holiday in Amsterdam .
6	It is probably true to say that the first few solo flights are the safest that a student pilot ever makes .
7	Examples of peasant or pastoralist protest where official conservation policies were a catalytic or a leading grievance are Kenya ( Heyer et al.
8	The article implies that district societies are no more than a local practitioners ' club .
9	Third , I do not accept the principle that the meaning of utterances is the same as a person 's ( alleged ) reasons for saying what he says .
10	In what sense do these mark a crossroads while the others are no more than a widening of the road ?
11	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 !
12	Apart from one or two struggling and shrivelled survivors , the roses were no more than a memory .
13	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 .
14	Those marks are no more than a few weeks old , that 's certain , but within that time no one knows when they were made .

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