Example sentences of "is [indef pn] [det] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Short-term pain for long-term gain — or in his words , ‘ this is nothing less than a call to arms , to restore the vitality of the American dream ’ .
2 This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said .
3 An absolutely blatant digression , it is nothing less than a lecture on the whole idea of locked rooms .
4 ‘ I believe that what we have heard and seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . ’
5 Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership .
6 Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership .
7 It is nothing less than the invocation of a two-language model of social scientific inquiry : that of theory and that of research ; that of concepts and that of variables .
8 The development of creativity is nothing less than the stocking of the mind with innumerable images and allowing the mixture to work as in fermentation to produce its astonishing results .
9 But the play also acknowledges quite clearly that what is at stake is nothing less than the legitimacy of the whole social order , hinging as it does on a ‘ naturally ’ sanctioned law of sexual difference .
10 Squatting is nothing less than the seizure of another 's property without consent .
11 It is nothing less than the crisis of humanism as a religion being played out in economic life .
12 The renewed mind is nothing less than the mind of Christ in the believer , a mind so under his authority that its presuppositions are entirely influenced and informed by the truth of God .
13 As for Genet , someone whose involvement with the different has variously been repudiated as fascist , racist , and anarchistic , his Prisoner of Love is nothing less than an affirmation of the love that Fanon envisaged and which has sometimes given the dissident their courage .
14 Wood 's principles are those of Loudon more than three decades later : ‘ a palace is nothing more than a cottage IMPROVED ’ , he wrote .
15 ‘ This is very interesting , ’ she said , ‘ but I 'm afraid that it is nothing more than a performance .
16 ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’
17 Thus , it is nothing more than a clearing house which does nothing in its own right .
18 If life is nothing more than a moving from one activity to the next it is not surprising if we become restless , cluttered and superficial .
19 If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ .
20 The exhibition therefore is nothing more than a rerun of Celant 's European power-broking of the lat 1960s , a European and specifically a Milanese challenge to America 's claim to the avant-garde which nevertheless included many successful ( male ) American artists of the period .
21 Quite a few people argue that managed competition is nothing more than a compromise , cobbled together to make sure that the mighty insurers and high-tech hospitals stay in business .
22 The fact that you report through him is nothing more than a formula to save his face .
23 The right of assembly , as Professor Dicey puts it , is nothing more than a view taken by the court of the individual liberty of the subject .
24 The right of assembly , as PROFESSOR DICEY puts it ( LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION ( 8TH Edn. ) p. 499 ) , is nothing more than a view taken by the courts of individual liberty of speech .
25 The right of assembling is nothing more than a result of the view taken by the courts as to individual liberty of person and individual liberty of speech .
26 This denial is exposed by the strategy of ‘ family planning ’ in our country , which is nothing more than a pillar of the apartheid programme .
27 Too many people believe football is nothing more than a game , but you and I know it to be so much more .
28 This is nothing more than a deaggregation of larger line items .
29 It is like pedigree dogs — a pedigree is special but a cross-breed is nothing more than a mongrel .
30 The play is nothing more than a succession of her venomous attacks on the sons ’ girls and the sons ' unbelievably feeble attempts to fight back .
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