Example sentences of "be no more than a [noun sg] " 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 | In what sense do these mark a crossroads while the others are no more than a widening of the road ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Some of the Discourses printed in them are no more than a title , but most are published in full . |
| 19 | Other memories are no more than a nutshell description , a fleeting image , perhaps of an eccentricity . |
| 20 | Although urinary incontinence may be no more than a nuisance in some women , for many it is far more troublesome . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This may be no more than a judgement of which line on a graduated scale a movable needle is nearest to . |
| 23 | It could be no more than a foot wide . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | Therefore the great extent of one or the other at various times in the past , might be no more than a measure of the width of the contemporary climatic belts . |
| 26 | And the Kaiser did everything he could to ensure that his son should be no more than a figurehead in the army given under his command . |
| 27 | Self-defence of this kind may be no more than a threat , as in the case of the inflated toad , standing high on its legs when confronted by a grass snake ( above ) , or the frilled lizard ( right ) which erects a huge umbrella of skin around its gaping jaws . |
| 28 | Pleasure can be no more than a gourmet 's appreciation for delicacies , whereas a happy person can readily settle for a much simpler diet . |
| 29 | Such is the standard of junior sides in this competition that the game appeared to be no more than a formality for us , so our 4–1 defeat came as a complete surprise . |
| 30 | The journalism of ‘ neutrality ’ may therefore be no more than a reflection , and an acknowledgement , of the arrival of a new political force in Britain and a response to the existence of a market as evidenced by the SDP 's success in the political and electoral arena . |