Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically everyone raved about Leeds that day — and Tuesday was a comfortable if a little uninspired . |
| 2 | The manager thought his lunchtime call to Anfield was no more than a formality . |
| 3 | At that time , the continents of North America and Europe were still close together and the Atlantic was no more than a narrow strip of sea between the two . |
| 4 | The DK was no more than a shadow , seen through the reinforced glass sphere at the front of the speeder . |
| 5 | I remember when Sarah Riddle was no more than a schoolgirl she was had up for … ’ |
| 6 | Language work can also be covered through drama or role-play ( a speech by a Roman general encouraging the troops , an argument between a Celt and a Roman over whether the conquest of Britain was a good or a bad thing ) . |
| 7 | Beside her , Paul was no more than a supporting member of the cast , who had no lines to say . |
| 8 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 9 | He said Popova and Klyun were unoriginal , adding that there was nothing interesting about them , while Rodchenko was no more than a photographer . |
| 10 | The village of Thorsbury was no more than a hamlet . |
| 11 | Mr Barnet was no more than a business acquaintance , but with true American hospitality he had taken pity on the young English couple who had no means of escaping from the city . |
| 12 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |