Example sentences of "was [art] more [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds began as if their miserable Anfield record was no more than a myth and Liverpool had the indignity of being pinned in their penalty area in front of an affronted Kop . |
| 2 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 3 | Now another life was about to begin , one in which she was no more than a surname and number , a woman who had lifted her hand in salute and sworn allegiance to King and country . |
| 4 | It was no more than a change of emphasis , but it emboldened the opposition . |
| 5 | He was searching for ‘ his class ’ , which he never found , and talked about ‘ the laboratory ’ , which was no more than a back kitchen with a bunsen burner and running water . |
| 6 | But Malebranche rejected various parts of Descartes 's proof , concluding that theoretically the material world was no more than a possibility , and could be accepted only on the basis of faith . |
| 7 | I remember when Sarah Riddle was no more than a schoolgirl she was had up for … ’ |
| 8 | The manager thought his lunchtime call to Anfield was no more than a formality . |
| 9 | It was no more than a flip ad-lib . |
| 10 | He said Popova and Klyun were unoriginal , adding that there was nothing interesting about them , while Rodchenko was no more than a photographer . |
| 11 | With prescience Ho proclaimed : ‘ Great as was the victory it was no more than a beginning . ’ |
| 12 | The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child . |
| 13 | They seemed to smell the air and if a lone bird hove in sight , they 'd pick it up when it was no more than a speck and watch it till it disappeared , and everything about it would be important to them — the direction of its flight , the way it flew , its height above the water , and so on . |
| 14 | Again Mungo had the sensation that the village was no more than a clearing ; a space borrowed from the forest . |
| 15 | Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley . |
| 16 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |
| 17 | For most horses it 's a big fence , but to him it was no more than a hurdle . |
| 18 | The likeness was there , Master Harry 's divination had been marvellously guided ; but he had carved a man , and this , after all , was no more than a boy , not yet grown . |
| 19 | The shape passed by , and was no more than a shape , dimly descried under the faint tempering of the darkness the thread of sky made between the trees : but the shape was familiar , a hooded man shrouded in voluminous cloth . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |
| 21 | But , as far as James was concerned , this was no more than a PRECONDITION for the abolition of slavery . |
| 22 | This was no more than a gesture but it helped sustain the morale of the Belgians . |
| 23 | Together with the data from the transits of Mercury , this re-interpretation of the old records led to the conclusion that the maximum extent of any change on the Sun 's radius since 1850 was no more than a decline of 0.08 seconds of arc per century , with a possible error range of plus or minus 0.07 . |
| 24 | Mr Barnet was no more than a business acquaintance , but with true American hospitality he had taken pity on the young English couple who had no means of escaping from the city . |
| 25 | All the equipment here could be explained away ; this was no more than a training ground for those interested in self-defence , martial arts and war games . |
| 26 | His striking appearance — dark complexion , black hair , and athletic figure — compelled attention and his air of languid weariness when lecturing was no more than a pose , concealing an exceptionally acute mind . |
| 27 | Wednesday survived some fearsome pressure until Hirst 's strike provided enough breathing space to ensure Monkou 's 79th-minute reply was no more than a consolation goal . |
| 28 | But it was no more than a consolation , and Bournemouth easily played out time in the monsoon to earn a second-round trip to Cheltenham . |
| 29 | The 1961 Programme , for instance , had defined itself as a ‘ Programme for the building of communist society ’ ; the revised version of 1986 was no more than a Programme for the ‘ planned and all-round perfection of socialism ’ and for further advance to communism through the country 's ‘ accelerated socio-economic development ’ . |
| 30 | For Origen that was no more than a matter of tactics in controversy , not one of principle . |