Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | THE gleam in President Gorbachev 's eye is no less than a new Marshall Plan to reorganise the Soviet Union 's economy , financed by the world 's seven leading industrial countries , the G7 . |
| 32 | ‘ To experience two within the same day is no less than a catastrophe . |
| 33 | The AP1-88 is only as noisy as a major road at a distance of 100 m to 200 m , and at I km is no noisier than a quiet residential area . |
| 34 | Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage . |
| 35 | A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along . |
| 36 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 37 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 38 | ‘ Labour 's supposed conversion to multilateralism is no more than a confidence trick to try to make Labour electable . |
| 39 | Until then the Polo is no more than a worthy evolution of a familiar species and merely addresses the most urgent problems that nearly 10 years of standing still have created . |
| 40 | In 1987 , soul is no more than a packed vehicle beating a hasty retreat from what are perceived as the excesses of white modernism . |
| 41 | The theory ( and it is no more than a theory ) goes something like this . |
| 42 | The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989 . |
| 43 | However gifted , a theatre director is no more than a metteur en scène . |
| 44 | Vienna Dear Fräulein , I hope and believe the sad condition you describe is no more than a temporary fantasy . |
| 45 | It is no more than a consistent point of view , which has the advantage that , if we accept it , we can stop arguing about whether feelings are causes of actions , and can get on with finding out how our brains work , without fearing that an answer to the question would make free will an illusion . |
| 46 | But such ‘ telling-all ’ is no more than a form of exhibitionism . |
| 47 | The scale of Fujimori 's problem was highlighted as troops moved to take control of Lima 's Castro Castro prison , where the high-security rating is no more than a wistful reminder of an architect 's intentions . |
| 48 | Subject to these provisos , the proposal is no more than a logical development of the original WEA practice of asking the University to provide teaching facilities through Joint Committee procedure . |
| 49 | The GP in this social world — far from being an expert — is no more than a layperson , with the same prejudices as others . |
| 50 | It is therefore important to establish the reasons why it is no more than a secondary justification dependent on the availability , at least to a certain degree , of another justification . |
| 51 | All that has been achieved , he or she now claims , is no more than a revelation of some primordial ordering of humanity . |
| 52 | Without religion , man is no more than a form of brute beast . |
| 53 | This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone , but is no more than a few metres thick at most . |
| 54 | I thought I would never believe it at one time , but I now accept , along with every other carp angler , that carp can differentiate — given time — between a bait that is no more than a tasty morsel of carbohydrate and one that consists mainly of ingredients with a high nutritive value |
| 55 | The syllabus , after all , is no more than a sketch of the terrain ; the scheme of work is a strategic plan which identifies objectives and tactics , and which allows for review and reinforcement . |
| 56 | Tuttle , by maintaining that the Laetoli prints are closer to Homo than the Hadar foot bones , and that different species were involved , is falling very much into the Leakey camp which believes that the earliest ’ true man ’ is more likely to be found in Tanzania than in Ethiopia , and that A afarensis is no more than a sub-branch of evolution . |
| 57 | This is highly efficient , but is no more than a slight modification of the normal skin-shedding process — quite an easy evolutionary step for any reptilian species to make , especially in comparison with the ‘ natural ligature ’ device in the lizard 's tail . |
| 58 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 59 | It may be that Barbara Gilmour 's place in Ayrshire 's history is no more than a myth , but that she existed can not be disputed . |
| 60 | Both sexes like the idea that women pretend , men because it confirms their suspicion that their partners are basically frigid and devious manipulators , women because it gives them a delicious sense of power to think that the delirium which men fondly ascribe to their virile prowess is no more than a hollow civility , like laughing at Grandpa 's jokes . |