Example sentences of "were [art] more [subord] [art] [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 . |
| 13 | A race lost , a father murdered , a career on the skids — they were no more than the opening scenes of a nightmare which was engulfing her . |
| 14 | Nor would the view serve any purpose , including the purpose for which it was devised , if it were no more than the idea that particular episodes of consciousness-say desiring-can be identified by their causal roles , where such identification does not give us their nature , or all of their nature . |
| 15 | They were no more than the truth , but now his mother would ring Victoria and Emma and they would ring him and it would be one question after another until he went completely mad and started calling for humming-bird sandwiches or something . |
| 16 | Mr Johnston said this week 's reform talks were no more than the overture to a long debate that would run into the winter and become embroiled in GATT negotiations . |
| 17 | By now few proposals could be judged on their merits , only according to which national group put them forward ( or rather , each proposal was identified as if it were no more than the product of a national group ) . |