Example sentences of "be [art] more [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Superficially such a resolution might appear to have been no more than a minimum concession by the Federation in response to the seamen 's involvement in a wave of strikes by transport workers which had reverberated around the ports of Britain in the previous summer — an undertaking that it would withdraw its " ticket " if the union would do the same , so that neither side would attempt to control the supply of seamen and free labour disputes would cease . |
| 2 | Of course , this might have been no more than a diplomatic ruse by the Russians to initiate a dependence which would permit a later imposition of heavier tribute payments without negative results . |
| 3 | The US ambassador , who had marvelled at the readiness of the British to hazard so much in company with France ( a nation which they were in the habit of disparaging ) , now saw that this had been no more than a passing flirtation . |
| 4 | In fact , the entire evening , spent flirting and dancing with her , had probably been no more than a cynical exercise in keeping his mind off someone else . |
| 5 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 6 | In his last memoirs , written in his second exile , he wrote that before 1953 , " I had been no more than a hereditary sovereign , but now I had truly been elected by the people . |
| 7 | Perhaps Piers had been no more than a struggling architect when they had first met , and she had not been content to lead a life of poverty . |
| 8 | To Willi and Gerda she had been no more than a romantic inspiration , a cardboard figure of tinsel who ceased to exist when the curtain came down . |
| 9 | Otherwise you may aggravate something that , with a little rest and good management , could have been no more than a minor injury . |
| 10 | The two year ban which he received has been no more than a minor inconvenience to him . |
| 11 | Historically , resource allocation has been the prime objective ( eg in relation to fisheries ) and environmental protection has been no more than a secondary objective . |
| 12 | The rhetoric may point to extreme scepticism or Pyrrhonism but its users , if pressed , are likely to retreat to positions which are no more than a modified version of traditional ones . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The article implies that district societies are no more than a local practitioners ' club . |
| 15 | On the other hand , for Tiny Rowland of the conglomerate Lonrho , and for the Atlantic Richfield Oil Company of California , his pre-decessor as owners of The Observer , the control of a national paper might be no more than a useful form of corporate public relations and personal prestige . |
| 16 | The external arrogance or bonhomie of the primary sufferer may be no more than a fearful mask . |
| 17 | There is another function of playing dead that has been depicted for centuries but which , until recently , was thought to be no more than a fictitious folk-tale . |
| 18 | Assessment would be no more than a subjective judgement of how well the student could perform specific DTP tasks . |
| 19 | Endearing as this is , it can be no more than a futile gesture , since any seasoned thriller addict will immediately finger the culprit the second she walks into frame . |
| 20 | Although upon return to Canada for what might prove to be no more than a temporary visit the mother 's situation might be unsatisfactory and she might suffer discomfort or perhaps even hardship , there is no evidence that there is a risk , let alone a great one , that the child 's return would place him in a situation which is intolerable . |
| 21 | As Lord Tedder , the Chief of the Air Staff , had insisted earlier , without nuclear weapons of her own Britain would be no more than a temporary American advanced base in a major war . |
| 22 | How could man , created in God 's image , be no more than a modified monkey ? |
| 23 | What I am speculating — and it can be no more than a retrospective speculation based on reports from sportsmen themselves — is that black parents were too preoccupied with maintaining a material existence to attend to sport : they were too busy making ends meet . |
| 24 | Edward Pilkington writing in the Guardian later commented , ‘ What at first glance appears to be no more than a simple case of human error becomes , at closer examination , as much a story about bungling management and an inadequate safety system born of years of cuts . |
| 25 | A dogma that once looked profound had been shown to be no more than a simplistic diagram ; and social reality is too complex , in the end , to be embraced by any single theory of history or of class . |
| 26 | This , when I first saw it , seemed to be no more than a pleasant crater , but later explorations by experts have classed it as one of the most severe in the district . |
| 27 | He might be kind , gentle even , but his words would be no more than a courteous cloak of indifference ; for had n't she now joined the ranks of women who wanted him ? |
| 28 | Without them , the book would be no more than a splenetic rant ; with them come glimmers of compassion and even humanity to balance the pyrotechnics of loathing . |
| 29 | But this sudden quiet is likely to be no more than a brief lull . |
| 30 | But here , the B section may be no more than a brief refrain like the ‘ Alleluias ’ which end both parts of Richafort 's ‘ Quem dicunt homines ’ or an extended section of more than forty bars as with the ‘ fera pessima devoravit filium meum Joseph ’ of Clemens 's ‘ Tulerunt autem ’ which is spliced with the ends of the preceding sections in a way that epitomizes the composer 's technical skill : |