Example sentences of "[was/were] no more [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Belief in the impassibility of God , it is worth noting , was developed in the early Christian centuries against the background of popular religious belief in the world of that day , where gods were no more than human beings on a large scale , subject to the same contingencies , passions , frustrations and feelings of pain or pleasure that determine human nature .
2 Yet by normal standards her cautious words — she 's 64 , after all — were no more than simple common sense .
3 The natural resources of Florence were no more than the four elements available to all simple communities since antiquity : earth , air , water and fire .
4 Mr Johnston said this week 's reform talks were no more than the overture to a long debate that would run into the winter and become embroiled in GATT negotiations .
5 Removed long before the shells had time to form , they were no more than a cluster of marble-sized orange balls in a thick yolky substance .
6 ‘ I was stood outside me shop all night , and most were no more than kids . ’
7 By now few proposals could be judged on their merits , only according to which national group put them forward ( or rather , each proposal was identified as if it were no more than the product of a national group ) .
8 But this confused political and economic independence , as if politics were no more than a reflex of economics .
9 Just as the great majority of stations in the United States and Canada , particularly in the earlier period , were no more than frame sheds , so thousands of stations in Africa and Asia were very simple buildings indeed .
10 Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia .
11 The earliest stations were no more than collections of weatherboard huts , similar to a contemporary group of stores .
12 Historical incidents were no more than superficial disturbances of the established order or recurring events of unchanging significance .
13 Heartened by the thought that all the rumblings within her were no more than spasms of ill-digested curry , she walked out from the Khyber fort that was her home , and with my father beside her , tapped her chilblains to the pipes of the Black Watch and admired the wild Pathans cleaning their rifles high on the hillside .
14 A race lost , a father murdered , a career on the skids — they were no more than the opening scenes of a nightmare which was engulfing her .
15 19E was delicensed on 17 February , but instead of being put into store like the others , it was painted plain red and fitted with primitive snow brooms , which were no more than boards with bristles attached , fitted in place of the lifeguard gates and it was used for sweeping snow in the Croydon area until 31 March 1937 .
16 Moody and high-strung though Anne was by nature , the girls ' brief quarrels were no more than might be expected between any siblings .
17 On a long , lowland walk on a pouring wet day my feet were no more than damp — a pleasant surprise .
18 You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most .
19 I were no more than a lad myself .
20 It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise .
21 When they were no more than damp , I went down to dinner .
22 Hari 's wash of hurt pride and anger vanished as suddenly as it had come , though she realized that Craig 's words were no more than flattery .
23 The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself .
24 She took on Richard Burton and it is impossible that she did not know — quite soon — that there were flaws : she knew about theatrical affairs and knew that most of them were no more than vessels bumping in the night or for the run of the play .
25 Faced with the reality that newspapers ( and television stations ) were no more than private organs for private gain , commentators could only hope that private ownership would be tempered by a social conscience .
26 I tried , for the first time in my life , to understand what it must have been like then , under tsarist rule , where people , peasants , were no more than livestock , to be dealt with by the aristocracy as they saw fit .
27 Yesterday they ( New Zealand ) were no more than cannon-fodder .
28 Even the conservatives in the House could not be entirely depended on , for all but a few of them were no more than ‘ Hooverites ’ to use Stockman 's contemptuous label ; they were keen on budget-cutting only up to a point and were anxious that the budget should be balanced , but they had no stomach for swingeing tax cuts — the main article of the supply-side faith .
29 The vast benefits many farmers saw as accruing to cities as a result of rural exploitation were no more than illusory .
30 Oresme 's analysis shows that , within the scholastic tradition , there was room for new ideas , even if they were no more than conjectures .
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