Example sentences of "be [art] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You 're no more than a blackmailer ! ’ |
2 | More often than not , they 're no more than a glass through which the all-important text is transmitted . |
3 | Subsequently what had been no more than a name implying a certain diplomatic affiliation between the Franks and Valentinian must have been interpreted as providing a genuine indication of the origins of the Franks . |
4 | On this occasion congress exercised its constitutional right to declare war , but , in retrospect , this seems to have been no more than a case of going through the motions — the age of crisis was well underway and the constitutional balance of powers would never be the same again . |
5 | Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him . |
6 | This done it soon became clear that Clairvaux had been no more than a pretext and that the real problems lay elsewhere . |
7 | To begin with , only the coincidence of the deaths of father and son within four days of each other ; beyond that his notion of a connection had been no more than a hunch , and he had been in the business too long to back his hunches far ahead of evidence . |
8 | For her , their lovemaking might have been an almost mystical fusing of bodies and identities , yet for him it had been no more than a roll in the hay . |
9 | Burun guessed that Kiku had been no more than a hair's-breadth away from being impaled on the st'lyan 's gilden horn . |
10 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
11 | This suggests that the fall in equity prices in October 1987 may have been no more than a correction to the market . |
12 | When she 'd moved in , it had been no more than a yard full of builders ' rubbish . |
13 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
14 | The account is and has been no more than a conduit , the defendant holding its funds with a Scottish bank in Glasgow . |
15 | If she felt hurt at the realisation that his affectionate gestures had been no more than a front — well , it could only be because her ego was wounded . |
16 | The efforts — and prison sentences — of the unofficial peace movement had redeemed the similarly contaminated word peace , but ‘ in my country , for ages now , socialism has been no more than an incantation that should be avoided if one does not wish to appear suspect . ’ |
17 | Veneers appear in the 1880s although an eighteenth-century example was discovered during the 1983–4 excavations at St Augustine-the-Less , Bristol , but this might have been no more than an attempt on the part of the coffin-maker to mask some splits at the shoulder caused by over-zealous saw-cuts when kerfing . |
18 | In the final analysis the entrepreneurial solution would have been no more than an evasion of the underlying causes of Nizan 's personal crisis of 1926–27 . |
19 | In what sense do these mark a crossroads while the others are no more than a widening of the road ? |
20 | Some of the larger birds , like the blackbirds and thrushes , often risk a little dive-bombing , in which they swoop down on the owl from a distance of about 30 feet , heading straight for it , and then swerve aside only at the very last moment , when they are no more than a foot away . |
21 | Some of the Discourses printed in them are no more than a title , but most are published in full . |
22 | Other memories are no more than a nutshell description , a fleeting image , perhaps of an eccentricity . |
23 | If they are used by a Christian then they are no more than an aid , just as meditation can be biblical or occult depending on what you meditate upon . |
24 | — the heart is the first organ to develop in the embryo ; when we are no more than the size of a kidney bean , our heart is visible , pumping away ; |
25 | These unimportant trivialities are no more than the girl prised out of him . ’ |
26 | Although urinary incontinence may be no more than a nuisance in some women , for many it is far more troublesome . |
27 | In many cases the accompaniment may be no more than a doubling of the melody ( at the unison or octave , or even in the bass ) with added chordal harmony . |
28 | This may be no more than a judgement of which line on a graduated scale a movable needle is nearest to . |
29 | It could be no more than a foot wide . |
30 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |