Example sentences of "be [pron] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this paper pretends to be nothing other than an account of an approach which is unique to the TSB , the principles described by Bruce Nichol and Tony Atkin may well be capable of transfer to other organizations in other industries . |
| 2 | This ‘ outsider ’ stance is , of course , nothing new , and if it bore the bulk of the band 's appeal , would be nothing more than a gimmick in itself . |
| 3 | It could be nothing more than a speculation , since at that point levels of attainment had no meaning other than their definition in the Report . |
| 4 | " Might it be nothing more than a girl ? " |
| 5 | It has proved , at the first time of asking in Test cricket , to be nothing more than a wrist-slapper . |
| 6 | The father 's solicitors appear to have thought perhaps otherwise and that the hearing on 27 January would be nothing more than a formality . |
| 7 | Reading is a process of identification with a work and a faithful reading will be nothing more than a word for word repetition of the text . |
| 8 | Determination , dedication and self-discipline may not fit the image but , without them , the boy from Black Rock , Victoria , would probably be nothing more than a beach bum right now . |
| 9 | If a lake is built behind the barrage , it will be nothing more than a sewage pit . |
| 10 | Add in Edith Cresson 's political affiliation , plus her deserved reputation for dirigisme , and the freshly coined sobriquet ‘ Edithatcher ’ seems to be nothing more than a phrase-monger 's fancy . |
| 11 | A major reason for this unconcern is that various fraudsters who have operated in the field have given ESP a bad name : underfunded scientists have far better things to investigate than a phenomenon which seems , on the basis of the available evidence , to be nothing more than a farrago . |
| 12 | It turned out to be nothing more than a charter for busybodies , lacking muscle and new money . |
| 13 | Buddhists of the Northern school of China and Japan evolved their own theory of grace and came to believe in the Buddha as a Saviour , though in the earliest Scriptures he himself claimed to be nothing more than a teacher , a shower of the way . |
| 14 | Even if he 'd shown any signs at all of wanting to have her around — which he had n't — she 'd be nothing more than a burden . |
| 15 | This would be nothing more than an admission of the truth as it actually is , and would thereby be an important refutation of ‘ god-given ’ rights . |
| 16 | In this sense , a ’ name ’ may be nothing more than an address in a computer 's memory , such as a pointer in a Pascal data structure . |
| 17 | Innate robotic responses or patterns of rapid learning in animals may be nothing more than an extension of their basic instincts . |
| 18 | She crossed to Patrick 's bed and rested her hand on his forehead ; it felt hot and his cheeks were certainly flushed — but perhaps that might be nothing more than the heat in the room . |
| 19 | If IBM has any sense ( which is in itself a topic worthy of serious consideration ) it will offer versions of its engine for the entire ES/9000 range ; should it do so , the 9221 version might be nothing larger than a circuit board or two that fits in a standard rack . |
| 20 | To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket . |
| 21 | For example it is well known that asthma and eczema are linked but what is frequently overlooked is the way that a person 's asthma can be bad at a time when their eczema is quiet and their eczema can be its worst when the asthma is quiet . |
| 22 | As it was everybody was thankfully unhurt , though a scary moment occurred when the AA member turned up and turned out to be none other than an ex-member of THE TREMELOES . |
| 23 | Because BS knows all the facts about the brain state , and the experience just is the brain state , then what the experience is like must be something other than a fact about the experience . |
| 24 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
| 25 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 26 | How could this right of election be anything other than a fiction if the breach of the term in all circumstances deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should receive ? |
| 27 | It 's as good a theory as any to explain it , because lord knows I never intended this to be anything other than a business arrangement . ’ |
| 28 | Could it be anything more than a compulsion to take the eternal conflict between the sexes to the ultimate battleground ? |
| 29 | Yet when one starts to look at the overall picture a little more deeply , will the obvious strengthening of what will be nine single Championship weeks , be anything more than a move which enables the rich to get richer and actually sets into motion what could become a long term contraction , rather than expansion of the sport , especially if the much-needed revival in the world economy takes longer to become bullish than some of the optimists have been forecasting . |
| 30 | If you guys really want to be anything more than a footnote in the annals of British history get this — ‘ Egalitarianism is for Losers ’ . |