Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] more [conj] a " 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 | In all probability it really had been nothing more than a prank . |
| 3 | As though she had been nothing more than a vulnerable female creature in the presence of her mate . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They are nothing more than a British version of New Kids On The Block . |
| 6 | " Your saints are nothing more than a lot of mischief-makers . " |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Such a government , he argues , perpetually teetering on the brink of defeat and another election , would be nothing more than a lame duck . |
| 11 | This ‘ outsider ’ stance is , of course , nothing new , and if it bore the bulk of the band 's appeal , would be nothing more than a gimmick in itself . |
| 12 | Add in Edith Cresson 's political affiliation , plus her deserved reputation for dirigisme , and the freshly coined sobriquet ‘ Edithatcher ’ seems to be nothing more than a phrase-monger 's fancy . |
| 13 | Their meeting will probably be nothing more than a courteous request from your boyfriend for your parents ' blessing and approval and it should get their relationship off to a good start ! |
| 14 | To her it may seem that not only was she robbed of happiness during her marriage , but that she is now also being denied the right to grieve as well , for there will be those who will be expecting her mourning to be nothing more than a brief bow to convention , followed by a fairly speedy rise in spirits and return to normality . |
| 15 | To her , language seemed to be nothing more than a means of discovering the price of butter or exchanging views about the weather . |
| 16 | It turned out to be nothing more than a charter for busybodies , lacking muscle and new money . |
| 17 | Buddhists of the Northern school of China and Japan evolved their own theory of grace and came to believe in the Buddha as a Saviour , though in the earliest Scriptures he himself claimed to be nothing more than a teacher , a shower of the way . |
| 18 | For both of these reasons , fluorine-oriented life seems to be nothing more than a theoretical fancy . |
| 19 | A major reason for this unconcern is that various fraudsters who have operated in the field have given ESP a bad name : underfunded scientists have far better things to investigate than a phenomenon which seems , on the basis of the available evidence , to be nothing more than a farrago . |
| 20 | It appears to be nothing more than a large cuckoo clock , with a single hand . |
| 21 | This , however , is said to be nothing more than a scantily concealed voluntarism . |
| 22 | Similarly , the Britons Society and Publishing Company appeared to be nothing more than a minuscule middle-class organization with a bee in its bonnet about Jews . |
| 23 | It has proved , at the first time of asking in Test cricket , to be nothing more than a wrist-slapper . |
| 24 | Might South Africa 's continuing claims to the next World Cup be nothing more than a clever cover ? |
| 25 | There are all sorts of reasons why one should not readily excuse such cruel behaviour , but Basil Henriques considered the crime to be nothing more than a boyish prank . |
| 26 | " Might it be nothing more than a girl ? " |
| 27 | It could be nothing more than a speculation , since at that point levels of attainment had no meaning other than their definition in the Report . |
| 28 | The father 's solicitors appear to have thought perhaps otherwise and that the hearing on 27 January would be nothing more than a formality . |
| 29 | " It 's worth remembering , Chuck , that without the white man 's know-how this road would be nothing more than a dusty cart track today . |
| 30 | It was thought to be nothing more than a shattered argillaceous deposit , produced by repeated submarine landslipping and carrying with it exotic blocks ranging in size from small fragments ( plate 4.2 ) up to whole mountains . |