Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] no [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manager thought his lunchtime call to Anfield was no more than a formality . |
| 2 | The natural resources of Florence were no more than the four elements available to all simple communities since antiquity : earth , air , water and fire . |
| 3 | Tudor England was no cultured and sophisticated Italian state , but the country did feel the influence of the humanists and gave hospitality to Erasmus . |
| 4 | Midwinter 's examination of government data concluded that the pupil-teacher ratio of rich L.A.s was no better than that of poor L.A.s . |
| 5 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 6 | At that time , the continents of North America and Europe were still close together and the Atlantic was no more than a narrow strip of sea between the two . |
| 7 | The DK was no more than a shadow , seen through the reinforced glass sphere at the front of the speeder . |
| 8 | Salvidge of Liverpool was the best-known example , becoming chairman of the National Union in 1913 and often cited as the only party boss on the American model in English politics , but his authority in Liverpool was no greater than that of Sir James Oddy in Bradford or Sir Percy Woodhouse in Manchester . |
| 9 | I remember when Sarah Riddle was no more than a schoolgirl she was had up for … ’ |
| 10 | Gen Aoun said Mr Muawad was no more than ‘ a former deputy ’ of a parliament which he had dissolved . |
| 11 | Victory in the 148th league derby on Merseyside was no more than Liverpool deserved for they did the lions share of the attacking while Everton were content to rely on defence and counter attacks in a bid for a hit and run triumph . |
| 12 | Mrs Simpson was no prettier than her , no more clever than her , no better than her . |
| 13 | In fact , of course , the " masses " as seen in Andalusia were no more than paid extras in a grandiose propaganda operation . |
| 14 | If there be any in this assembly , any dear friend of Caesar 's , to him I say that Brutus ' love to Caesar was no less than his |
| 15 | He says the real Shakespeare was no more than the man who looked after the horses and the costumes . |
| 16 | Bear in mind that most of the ‘ highways ’ leading out of medieval London were no more than bridle paths . |
| 17 | Beside her , Paul was no more than a supporting member of the cast , who had no lines to say . |
| 18 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 19 | The 24-year-old David Stirling was no rough and ready brawling cut-throat though , in spite of his thirst for coming to grips with the enemy . |
| 20 | Certainly Churchill and Eden found that their dealings with Eisenhower and Dulles were no easier than they had been with the Democrats : in fact they often thought them worse . |
| 21 | He said Popova and Klyun were unoriginal , adding that there was nothing interesting about them , while Rodchenko was no more than a photographer . |
| 22 | The village of Thorsbury was no more than a hamlet . |
| 23 | Mr Barnet was no more than a business acquaintance , but with true American hospitality he had taken pity on the young English couple who had no means of escaping from the city . |
| 24 | One other little point , in Brideshead Revisited , there 's a character who never appears , she 's always spoken about , and thwarted and that is the man who Brideshead marries , and she says , talking to Julia , Julie was no better than she should have been . |
| 25 | To Leese , Mosley was a ‘ kosher fascist ’ , a Jewish agent planted to discredit the whole concept of fascism in Britain ; to Mosley , Leese was no more than an anti-semitic crank . |
| 26 | Hedilla believed that he was head of the party , but other members of the committee and their respective coteries considered that Hedilla was no more than " first among equals " and that , in any case , his authority was only provisional . |
| 27 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |