Example sentences of "was [indef pn] more [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was generally felt that the legislation was nothing more than a publicity exercise , carried out under severe pressure from the USA and the Free State government . |
| 2 | Strictly speaking , the king was nothing more than a servant , a vessel , a vehicle , through which the divine will manifested itself . |
| 3 | Then they turn against the Prime Minister with a viciousness and a bitterness that suggests that previous talk of unity was nothing more than a charade . |
| 4 | His hand was still firm on her shoulder and the contact changed from pleasure to a feeling she was nothing more than a possession . |
| 5 | Diana was nothing more than a schoolgirl , unworldly in the extreme . |
| 6 | They were usually minor KGB agents , and the two-thousand-dollar charge was nothing more than a way of increasing the Soviet Union 's foreign exchange . |
| 7 | ‘ It was nothing more than a tap in , ’ he added . |
| 8 | In reality , the basis for the prevailing sense of optimism was nothing more than a sense that , with hostilities now ended , everyone could get back to business as usual . |
| 9 | A sense of detachment might produce a sharper view , but he felt unreal , as if the scene he was viewing was nothing more than a backdrop at a theatre which might roll itself up and disappear when the present act was over . |
| 10 | In an outspoken attack in the News of the World , the 54-year-old condemned his religious upbringing as ‘ brainwashing ’ and claimed : ‘ Jesus was nothing more than a magician just like me . ’ |
| 11 | Until Silas came it was nothing more than a wilderness . ’ |
| 12 | To Michael Powell documentary was nothing more than a refuge for ‘ disappointed feature filmmakers or out-of-work poets ’ , but the wartime films he made within an immensely fruitful collaboration ( the Archers ) with the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger , with the two of them sharing credits for production , direction and screenwriting , take on documentary concerns in ways which indicate that the absorption of the documentary filmmakers into commercial filmmaking was only an incidental part of a process with roots deep in wartime culture . |
| 13 | Lord Dilhorne and Lord Russell both thought that there was nothing more than a gift , whereas Lord Fraser , dissenting , considered that there had been a sale of both articles ( ie the petrol and the coins ) in one transaction . |
| 14 | We should not go too far and argue that the alleged conflict between the monied and landed interests was nothing more than a propagandist 's fiction . |
| 15 | In the middle of the afternoon , she rang her office : there was nothing more than a routine acknowledgment of the debriefing report she had sent after Maxim 's meeting with the Secret Service . |
| 16 | There was also the possibility that Myeloski was wrong , that it was nothing more than a string of coincidences . |
| 17 | I ca n't remember who it was who said that a squirrel was nothing more than a rat with good PR but how right they were ! |
| 18 | The promotion was nothing more than a device to give Richard Sharpe some status on the Prince of Orange 's staff , but so far as Sharpe himself was concerned he was still a Rifleman . |
| 19 | The next chapter examines the governmental context of Charles 's fiscal and monetary methods : his imitation of late-Roman emperors was something more than a charade or a figleaf for impotence . |
| 20 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
| 21 | It appeared as if there was something more than a cupboard there . |
| 22 | She was something more than a housekeeper , more also than a nurse . |
| 23 | For while the health and safety , and the prospective redundancy of its members , are the union 's business as of generally recognised right it is by no means clear that an industrial strategy that was anything more than a slogan would be . |