Example sentences of "no [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 2 | Begging your pardon , Sir , but some of those alleged artists that get feted on BBC Two could paint no better than a monkey in the zoo . |
| 3 | The Canadian provisions would seem to be no better than the English in this respect . |
| 4 | Dwyer outlined the bare bones of his playing philosophy : ‘ We are no sure that the manner in which the laws developed has reflected the way the game was meant to be played ’ , he said . |
| 5 | As Beswick ( 1977 ) notes , such a development requires no less than a revolution in most people 's perception of a library from that of " storehouse to learning centre " . |
| 6 | In 1791 the Windsor theatre , then no more than a shed in a muddy field , was bought from Francis Waldron [ q.v. ] , writer and actor . |
| 7 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 8 | Although urinary incontinence may be no more than a nuisance in some women , for many it is far more troublesome . |
| 9 | She likes it here but that place she 's got is no more than a hole in the wall . |
| 10 | Now that I actually stood in the house of Victor Frankenstein , I felt myself no more than a character in a fantastic film . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Henceforth the local , stable community where relationships were both personal and persistent became no more than a rarity in the modern world . |
| 14 | Against this background the terms of settlement of the 1911 strike indicated no more than a truce in the battle for the control of the supply of labour in the industry . |
| 15 | But it is no more than a seed in 1215 . |
| 16 | [ music ] But as this music fades into the Interlude the E/F figure is suddenly no more than a detail in the seascape , a gull 's cry perhaps or a slight turbulence on the water [ 3 ] . |
| 17 | Gibson 's ( 1969 ) account of these effects suggests that discrimination training may not be necessary but the same conclusion can be derived from more prosaic considerations — it might be argued , for instance , that the results described so far reflect no more than a disruption in control subjects confronted by novel stimuli at the start of the test discrimination . |
| 18 | Mr Gillespie maintained that the correspondence was no more than a stage in negotiations and that there was no final agreement . |
| 19 | Or is the inner city problem no more than an exercise in name-calling ? |