Example sentences of "be no [det] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although urinary incontinence may be no more than a nuisance in some women , for many it is far more troublesome . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This may be no more than a judgement of which line on a graduated scale a movable needle is nearest to . |
| 4 | It could be no more than a foot wide . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Pleasure can be no more than a gourmet 's appreciation for delicacies , whereas a happy person can readily settle for a much simpler diet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is much more likely to be no more than a reflection of the fact that almost everything we know about Richard as Duke of Aquitaine comes from an English chronicler , Roger of Howden , and Roger only has information when he has access to the reports sent by Richard to his father , that is to say when Henry is in England . |
| 13 | It hardly matters what you are angry about , so long as you convey clearly the message that you are on the point of a serious psychotic meltdown and anyone getting in your way is liable to be no more than a bag of pimply skin and bone shards lying in a pool of blood within seconds . |
| 14 | This immediately triggered talk about a triple ( or is it a quadruple ? ) dip , but many economists believe it will prove to be no more than a stutter . |
| 15 | This chapter can be no more than a combination of large generalizations and small examples , maybe unrepresentative . |
| 16 | I mean , I have n't done a detailed survey on anything , but I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw when I went in there , and I must say , I went there expecting it to be no more than a garden hut . |
| 17 | A dozen flying machines and their pilots would be no more than a blip on a piece of magnetic tape . |
| 18 | It appeared to be no more than a gesture of politeness , but Polly knew he was poised to block her slightest move towards the door . |
| 19 | It would be a gesture , I think , by Councillors of recognition that hardship is erm perhaps being endured and that they should share in it , but it would be no more than a gesture . |
| 20 | But now , here , this morning , in this pokey little office in Queen Anne 's Gate , spring in the air in St James 's Park outside his windows , the sound of military music drifting across from Buckingham Palace as the guards marched — all the elements of human and political drama so clear in his mind — Mick wondered whether it really was his destiny to be no more than a player : just another player . |
| 21 | ‘ Rational animal ’ had been suggested as a definition of the ‘ nature ’ of man ; but this appears to be no more than a specification of some of his properties . |
| 22 | Mr claims that this is merely of local importance and at the end of the day twenty years from now or twenty five years from now whenever this the application is imp is implemented and and completed that it would be no more than a replica of er natural features within the Vale of York . |
| 23 | The Land Rover had originally been meant to be no more than a safety net . |
| 24 | Reginald de Grey reckoned every Welshman a thief and an outlaw , and had his borders patrolled as though against the entire army of France , in great measure creating the animosity and disorder he saw everywhere ; and this company might be no more than a routine patrol meant to impress and intimidate on his usual terms . |
| 25 | In one sense , offering insurance in this way may be no more than a marketing device and the whole deal is a matter for the commercial judgement of the firm involved — and their clients . |
| 26 | The risk-graded investment — be it under Scottish Mutual 's calculations or the statistical tools used by other unit trust managers — can be no more than a guide . |
| 27 | The lecture , then , can be no more than a guide to assist your studies . |
| 28 | As Edmund is unlikely to have issued law in which he exhorted himself , these provisions may be no more than a programme laid before the full witan , and perhaps preached to it . |