Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [det] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although new roofs have been built , many windows remain smashed and most bathrooms are nothing more than rubble . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They are nothing less than soapboxes for critical sporting fans . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 7 | I knew it must be something more than flu . |
| 8 | Peacekeeping forces do not have to be strong enough to overwhelm an army ; but they must be something more than score-keepers or targets . |
| 9 | ’ In my view there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked and accorded for the protection or promotion of the interests of the inhabitants of the area . |
| 10 | In the passage I have just quoted , Lord Templeman said that there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've had enough with that lot downstairs , going on at me as if I 'm something less than bacteria ! ’ |
| 12 | You know you 're never going to be anything more than Julius 's secretary . ’ |
| 13 | We feel this important , however , to counterbalance the view of crime , promoted by the Conservative Party , and accepted by some on the left , as being nothing more than violence , mugging and burglary . |
| 14 | Determined to let Rune 's volatile lover know the truth — that , far from being lovers themselves , she and Rune were nothing more than strangers linked by a common family crisis — she began firmly , ‘ Look , Lotta — there 's something you should know . |
| 15 | The French mathematician Descartes remarked on the similarity between this sort of toy and the behaviour of animals , arguing that the latter were nothing more than automatons whose reactions were constantly triggered by events in the environment ( Jeannerod 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Others ( including the " type " bioherms in Indiana ) were nothing more than heaps of crinoid debris . |
| 17 | He kept petitioning Amenophis to restrict the granting of golden battle honours — not that the battles were anything more than skirmishes then . ’ |
| 18 | The Subject of Coleridge 's poetry is nothing less than Creativity itself . |
| 19 | The subject of Coleridge 's poetry is nothing less than creativity itself . |
| 20 | ‘ The subject of Coleridge 's poetry is nothing less than creativity itself ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ The subject of Coleridge 's poetry is nothing less than creativity itself ’ |
| 22 | CONCOCTING massage oils , fragrant creams and mind bending perfumes is nothing less than alchemy — your humble kitchen will never be the same again ! |
| 23 | The scale and complexity of changes taking place in the field of special needs and the necessary transformation of the teacher-training curriculum imply an agenda for teacher training that is nothing less than retraining and supporting every teacher in the country in working with pupils with special needs . |
| 24 | No , it is nothing less than God 's truth mediated to them by God 's Spirit ( 2:9 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ The subject of Coleridge 's poetry is nothing less than Creation itself . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The subject of Coleridge 's poetry is nothing less than creation itself ’ |
| 27 | The crude belief that a service economy is nothing more than McDonald 's writ large is correctly dismantled . |
| 28 | Some theologians have suggested that the essence of the gospel is nothing more than forgiveness as it is enshrined in the story of the prodigal Son . |
| 29 | A common criticism is that their ‘ telepathy ’ is nothing more than mumbo-jumbo covering the clever ‘ detective ’ work of extracting clues and information from their naive victims . |
| 30 | It 's about time somebody killed this ‘ debate ’ dead in its tracks , even if it meant stating the obvious ; that postmodernism is nothing more than Situationism without the socialism , the archetypal assimilation of revolutionary technique and terminology . |