Example sentences of "were no [det] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from one or two struggling and shrivelled survivors , the roses were no more than a memory . |
| 2 | You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most . |
| 3 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 4 | as if history were no more than a dream . |
| 5 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 6 | He bent , seized my wrist , and dragged me towards him as if I were no more than a doll . |
| 7 | But this confused political and economic independence , as if politics were no more than a reflex of economics . |
| 8 | And he had spoken of her as though she were no more than a female to be used and then discarded . |
| 9 | But to press into service , as though it were no more than a compendium of useful organs , the body of a servant , a friend — and a friend , at that , who died for a crime attributable to one 's own negligence — well , this moral madness placed him beyond human consideration . |
| 10 | I were no more than a lad myself . |
| 11 | It preferred , apparently , to revel blindly in its senses , as though life were no more than a rout of appetite and sensation rather than the dream of gold she sought to share . |
| 12 | Removed long before the shells had time to form , they were no more than a cluster of marble-sized orange balls in a thick yolky substance . |