Example sentences of "which was no [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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1 | Happily , these include some of the most desperate cases , like Borringdon , a once-magnificent Elizabethan house outside Plymouth which was no more than a gutted shell clinging to a precipice , but today is a comfortable country house hotel . |
2 | The farmer who sold it was happy to rid himself of a wreck which was no more than a dangerous playground . |
3 | He was searching for ‘ his class ’ , which he never found , and talked about ‘ the laboratory ’ , which was no more than a back kitchen with a bunsen burner and running water . |
4 | Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley . |
5 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |