Example sentences of "be more than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 2 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 3 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 4 | In practice , it proved to be more than a mere truce after two decades of mutual and unbridled hostility . |
| 5 | To be worth two murders in eight days , Ascot had to be more than a mere gambling scam . |
| 6 | The resemblance to Marryat in O'Brian 's novels is unarguable in general terms and may even be more than a broad likeness . |
| 7 | In the end the consequences of Chernobyl may be more than a horrifying collection of statistics about unleashed radiation , deformed lives , premature deaths . |
| 8 | Our data suggest that the biologically active amidated peptides that are potential mediators of these actions can not be more than a small proportion of the total progastrin produced . |
| 9 | She wished she had been born into a different age , an age when women had been allowed to be more than a decorative possession . |
| 10 | During the menopause a drop in hormone levels may account for a temporary loss of sexual desire in women , but this need not be more than a passing loss . |
| 11 | However , for most airports with overall impact of the Tunnel is unlikely to be more than a temporary hiccup in the strong growth of traffic . |
| 12 | Some cardiologists complained that the heart could never be more than a temporary remedy and that the money spent on the research could be better used for drug therapies and other techniques . |
| 13 | If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made . |
| 14 | You may have known someone else for twenty years and yet he will never be more than a casual acquaintance . |
| 15 | There will never be more than a stray shower ; the waves will never be more than three feet high , with a scattering of white horses when the breeze runs into double figures . |
| 16 | An accurate and meaningful account of a human society should be more than a generalised narrative of the changes in composition of the archaeological record through time . |
| 17 | There was never even a possibility that Barney Clark would ever be more than a wretched cripple . |
| 18 | And I figured that it would be more than a racing cert that it was situated in another alleyway . |