Example sentences of "as no more [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend .
2 Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent .
3 The established head taking up a keen interest in marketing may well be seen as no more than a leopard cynically changing spots to match the climate of LMS and the introduction of pupil driven funding .
4 If a senior officer were to be viewed as no more than a member of an amorphous managerial team , said Mr Roach , the public would be led to believe that any complaint against a policemen was merely being investigated by ‘ one of the boys .
5 But the villagers regarded the new name as no more than a foreigner 's eccentric fancy which they were under no obligation either to use or recognise .
6 One view sees retirement as no more than a form of compulsory unemployment within an economy which can no longer offer full employment .
7 The claim that unschooled Wolof children have not developed the ‘ logical functions ’ of language will appear then as no more than a statement that the conventions in which their thinking is expressed are different from those of the researcher herself .
8 The cult had remained after those who had brought it had embraced the gods of the Black Land , the true gods , the gods of the land in which they now lived , but it remained as no more than a fashion among the rich .
9 If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long .
10 From seeming to be a parable or a satire , it ends up as no more than a glimpse of the stunted mentality of a twosome .
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