Example sentences of "be no [det] than [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa .
2 If so , the power of critics may be no more than the listings services offered in the papers or on posters , while real power can be found in the organisation of the art market .
3 Quite possibly , however , the fluctuations may be no more than the results of random changes in atmospheric activity which , occasionally , bring large deviations from normal conditions .
4 Titmuss 's concept of society as an organic entity is , for market liberals , simply metaphysics : society is no more than the individuals and families who make it up .
5 She looked good in country clothes as well ; in fact she looked pretty damned good all round , and right now it was the world 's greatest pisser that he was no more than a rough-at-the-edges motor mechanic whose chances with her had to rate at somewhere close to zero .
6 These were places where at the beginning of the century there was no more than a Mechanics ' Institute or a Lit. and Phil. ; and these new institutions were more oriented to science than the ancient ones , and committed on the German model to research .
7 But this was no more than a politeness with little political meaning , and one which disappeared , though slowly , during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries .
8 And when Stuart nodded in Wise 's free-kick , it was no more than the Londoners deserved .
9 The 4,400 attendance was no less than the sides deserved .
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