Example sentences of "it [be] [art] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 2 | Out across the water , the end of the lake had not yet emerged from the mist , and the mountains above it were no more than a delicate shadow of grey against a deep grey sky . |
| 3 | But to press into service , as though it were no more than a compendium of useful organs , the body of a servant , a friend — and a friend , at that , who died for a crime attributable to one 's own negligence — well , this moral madness placed him beyond human consideration . |
| 4 | I daresay it 's no more than a chill . |
| 5 | Thereafter it 's no more than a recurrent talking-point or a way of talking down , with all this I do n't feel I really know you and What 's really going on in there ? and Show me the real you . |
| 6 | He 's perfectly competent , well supplied with money always , and it 's no more than a quarter past nine . |
| 7 | It 's no more than a change of clothing . |
| 8 | The theory ( and it is no more than a theory ) goes something like this . |
| 9 | It is no more than a consistent point of view , which has the advantage that , if we accept it , we can stop arguing about whether feelings are causes of actions , and can get on with finding out how our brains work , without fearing that an answer to the question would make free will an illusion . |
| 10 | It is therefore important to establish the reasons why it is no more than a secondary justification dependent on the availability , at least to a certain degree , of another justification . |
| 11 | It is no more than a large village with shops , yet to the folk of the remote parts of Sutherland it is a metropolis of great importance . |
| 12 | At the seaward end , it is no more than a good stone 's throw from the Atlantic beach but at a higher level , its issuing stream descending through a short wooded ravine to join the waters of the ocean . |
| 13 | It would be dangerous to suggest that this impossibility is in any strong sense theoretical , i.e. open to mathematical proof , and I will assume it is no more than a strong empirical impossibility . |
| 14 | In Some cases , those where laws have been enacted , this will be justified , but for those that remain mere hopes it is no more than a persuasive figure of speech . |
| 15 | And yet it is no more than a nine-horse race , even if one of the teams is more pony than stallion , and no extreme predictions will be found in this column ; the taste of the printed page proved far too unpalatable in 1983 , when criticism of India , eventual World Cup winners , was duly exposed as unwarranted and the urgent suggestion that one should eat one 's words was honourably met . |
| 16 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 17 | Superficially it is no more than a succession of parallel layers . |
| 18 | But it is no more than a seed in 1215 . |
| 19 | But if I may interrupt , how do you cope with the argument that Mr Curtis was making that if your settlement is , say , less than two and a half thousand it is no more than a large housing estate which relies on the centre of York for its functions , of service , shopping , entertainment , and therefore that the difference between that the difference between a new settlement beyond the greenbelt and peripheral development , in those terms , is no different . |
| 20 | In the hands of its writer , it is no more than a dreary bit of singer-songwriter earnestness . |
| 21 | It was as heavy as an ox in spite of the fact that it was no taller than a young steer , and a green and greasy liquid flowed from its wounds . |
| 22 | Burun cursed , and Rostov saw that the straw circle had been moved back and turned sideways so that it was no wider than a man 's forearm . |
| 23 | It was no more than a shadow on his deepening melancholy . |
| 24 | It was no more than a wooden shed , with shelves layered round the walls , and a counter . |
| 25 | The pressure of legal penalties , not only against pagans but eventually also against heretics , schismatics , and Jews , no doubt had a part to play ; but to judge by the extent to which Christian mobs could get their way without restraint years before the emperors ' coercive legislation , enacted in the years after 390 , it was no more than a minor part . |
| 26 | For most horses it 's a big fence , but to him it was no more than a hurdle . |
| 27 | Cam had a vague memory of a glamorous ‘ aunt ’ , who had once taken a remote interest in his father , but it was no more than a shadow . |
| 28 | It was no more than a change of emphasis , but it emboldened the opposition . |
| 29 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 30 | It had a resale value , even if it was no more than a few lire . |