Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAUL LINEHAM has a story about being at home in Cork at Christmas and having to keep the band 's first two EPs by the side of his bed , so scared was he that the previous three months had been nothing more than a ‘ fierce dream ’ . |
| 2 | This , however , may have been nothing more than the fact that nuclear energy constituted a clearly defined and nascent policy sector , and one which , since unlike other policy areas such as coal or agriculture there were hardly any national interests or groups to consider , could quite easily be separated from the rest of national policy making . |
| 3 | He glanced over his shoulder again , and discovered that the two men were nowhere to be seen — it had been nothing more than his imagination . |
| 4 | In all probability it really had been nothing more than a prank . |
| 5 | As though she had been nothing more than a vulnerable female creature in the presence of her mate . |
| 6 | All the tenderness he 'd shown her had been nothing more than a sham , just a front to convince the interested public that they were lovers . |
| 7 | Nigel Profitt , 21 , of Erdington , Birmingham , and three other City supporters , were told by John Pryce , chairing a magistrates ' court hearing yesterday : ‘ You are nothing more than looters . |
| 8 | In answer to ‘ obscure and spurious questions such as whether universals may exist by themselves , whether they are only in the mind , whether they exist separate from things or only with them ’ , he says that these ‘ great universals are nothing more than … common nouns … that can be applied to more than one object ’ . |
| 9 | All of the actors , especially Hoffman , are nothing more than stooges to Peckinpah 's notions of perversity , degradation , and dung heap characterisation … this putrid , wholly offensive and nauseating snotball of a film … two hours of a running sewer disgorging human waste … |
| 10 | This leads to the notion that we are nothing more than chemical and mechanical devices , albeit extremely complex and wonderfully integrated ones . |
| 11 | They are the tools through which life manifests and functions on the material plane , but without the animating principle — the life force or vital energy — they are nothing more than complex chemistry . |
| 12 | They are nothing more than a British version of New Kids On The Block . |
| 13 | Many so-called crypts beneath churches are nothing more than empty charnels — G.H. Cook gives at least twenty such examples — though those at Hythe in Kent and Rothwell in Northamptonshire are still full . |
| 14 | The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships , the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas . |
| 15 | As Williams ( 1978 ) pointed out , such statements are nothing more than promissory notes . |
| 16 | " Your saints are nothing more than a lot of mischief-makers . " |
| 17 | He held that beliefs in laws and theories are nothing more than psychological habits that we acquire as a result of repetitions of the relevant observations . |
| 18 | " Some of the older boys at school say we are nothing more than dancing puppets of the French ! " |
| 19 | The slenderest patients , those whose faces are nothing more than a triangle of bone around the eyes , they 're Musselmänner : not , as I first thought , as an ironical glance at musclemen . |
| 20 | The resulting final accounts are nothing more than summarized cash books . |
| 21 | But in time term " , these limestones are very much of the same age as those in Europe and , as I have said elsewhere , " the Niagara Falls are nothing more than the Niagara River falling over an escarpment of Wenlock Limestone " . |
| 22 | Most of the so called Multi media packages available today are nothing more than the original versions supplied on CD-ROM . |
| 23 | ‘ You are nothing more than a spoiled , bitter child , ’ he grated , ‘ a child with built-in petulance and your mother 's way of seeing no other needs but her own . ’ |
| 24 | Reading this book has confirmed what I have always believed and that is that certain concepts in carp fishing are nothing more than the results of misread scientific papers and wishful thinking ! |
| 25 | This is a hallowed statement signifying that the terms set out are nothing more than an intention and will not become binding on any party until a formal contract has been negotiated , executed and exchanged . |
| 26 | But although new roofs have been built , many windows remain smashed and most bathrooms are nothing more than rubble . |
| 27 | As the Indian Divisions ' official history records the fact , the men of the 4th had , at Alamein , ‘ been something more than spectators and something less than participants in the main battle . |
| 28 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
| 29 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 30 | Such a government , he argues , perpetually teetering on the brink of defeat and another election , would be nothing more than a lame duck . |