Example sentences of "was [art] [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 2 | Equally , a feminist who left a meeting , went home and jumped into bed with hubbie or boyfriend , was no better than a member of the fifth column . |
| 3 | There was Mrs Moore , the dentist 's wife , mother of his friend who had committed suicide because life did not seem worth living ; and there was Mary Johnson 's mother looking as prim as a prune , not knowing that her daughter was no better than a streetwalker . |
| 4 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 5 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 6 | Burun cursed , and Rostov saw that the straw circle had been moved back and turned sideways so that it was no wider than a man 's forearm . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the smallest dinosaur known — of the type that were probably the immediate ancestors of modern birds — was no bigger than a mistlethrush weighing only a few grammes . |
| 8 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 9 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was no more than a change of emphasis , but it emboldened the opposition . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I remember when Sarah Riddle was no more than a schoolgirl she was had up for … ’ |
| 17 | The manager thought his lunchtime call to Anfield was no more than a formality . |
| 18 | It was no more than a flip ad-lib . |
| 19 | He said Popova and Klyun were unoriginal , adding that there was nothing interesting about them , while Rodchenko was no more than a photographer . |
| 20 | With prescience Ho proclaimed : ‘ Great as was the victory it was no more than a beginning . ’ |
| 21 | The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Again Mungo had the sensation that the village was no more than a clearing ; a space borrowed from the forest . |
| 24 | Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For most horses it 's a big fence , but to him it was no more than a hurdle . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But , as far as James was concerned , this was no more than a PRECONDITION for the abolition of slavery . |