Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 61 | Modern scientific man thinks that he is no more than a chance arrangement of dust and water , of molecules — though he may acknowledge that the atoms and molecules , indeed all life forms , are highly ordered and organized ! |
| 62 | I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels , but if I have no love my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell . |
| 63 | However , if you have travelled some distance , use a thermometer to check temperature of pond and transport water and if there is no more than a 4° difference , release the fish straight away . |
| 64 | A gravel tidy , which is no more than a fine plastic mesh , should then be laid over the coarse medium and should be neatly trimmed to fit snugly into all the corners and around the uplifts . |
| 65 | Egoism , then , is no more than a terminus towards which interacting individuals are pushed by competition . |
| 66 | In my view the body is no more than a bag , a costume or a cover and I 'm altering it to be more in line with how I see myself . ’ |
| 67 | So far as this is no more than a cost-cutting exercise it falls outside the scope of this article . |
| 68 | It is no more than a large village with shops , yet to the folk of the remote parts of Sutherland it is a metropolis of great importance . |
| 69 | At the seaward end , it is no more than a good stone 's throw from the Atlantic beach but at a higher level , its issuing stream descending through a short wooded ravine to join the waters of the ocean . |
| 70 | She likes it here but that place she 's got is no more than a hole in the wall . |
| 71 | Its defence has been largely the concern of other powers since the fall of Singapore in 1942 ; and the British independent nuclear deterrent is no more than a phrase , since it is not independent and , as the Falklands crisis of 1982 showed , it does not deter . |
| 72 | Sometimes this is no more than a description of what has to be done but sometimes it incorporates how the operator does it or should do it . |
| 73 | It would be dangerous to suggest that this impossibility is in any strong sense theoretical , i.e. open to mathematical proof , and I will assume it is no more than a strong empirical impossibility . |
| 74 | Writing is no more than a secondary , graphic representation of language ’ ( quoted by Lyons 1970 : 18 ) . |
| 75 | In Some cases , those where laws have been enacted , this will be justified , but for those that remain mere hopes it is no more than a persuasive figure of speech . |
| 76 | Although this is no more than a metaphorical description , it nevertheless serves to give some idea of what these relations are like . |
| 77 | His failure to appreciate that at the time is no more than a commentary on the absence of knowledge about child abuse generally among social workers . |
| 78 | And yet it is no more than a nine-horse race , even if one of the teams is more pony than stallion , and no extreme predictions will be found in this column ; the taste of the printed page proved far too unpalatable in 1983 , when criticism of India , eventual World Cup winners , was duly exposed as unwarranted and the urgent suggestion that one should eat one 's words was honourably met . |
| 79 | Most of the time the organization is no more than a collection of loosely coupled individuals and groups . |
| 80 | The average separation between the stars at its centre is no more than a tenth of a light-year . |
| 81 | This is no more than a statement of fact ; throughout the Nixon years the opposition party held large majorities in both Houses of Congress ; the bureaucracy was thick with Democrats and the national media , at least , tended to be markedly hostile . |
| 82 | Indeed , we must suspect that under the interests theory the criterion of personal responsibility is no more than a function of social policy : the more highly the interest is regarded , the closer we are drawn towards unlimited personal responsibility . |
| 83 | A number of changes will have occurred : it will have lost ten to fifteen per cent of its weight through loss of water ; the cell structures in the meat will have broken down ; the proteins will have changed into individual amino acids ( developing the flavour ) ; the muscle filaments — yes , the noble carcass is no more than a collection of muscles , bone and fat — will have broken down a bit and become more tender . |
| 84 | On the motorway , the engine noise is no more than a soft hum . |
| 85 | For other commentators the continuing dominance of smaller group attitudes and the persistence of an ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ mentality towards non-members , is no more than a repeat of the older village attitudes . |
| 86 | This capacity is no more than a device to enable the organisation to act , and should not be seen as either creating or weighing against an agency relationship . |
| 87 | A successful program of this type is no more than a computerization of traditional classroom method , and it will teach most children effectively , with the added advantages of constant individual attention and limitless patience . |
| 88 | They are not likely to be deterred by those who contend that democracy is no more than a method of choosing national governments . |
| 89 | What is being proposed at the moment , however , is no more than a certain view of our conception of causation . |
| 90 | What is no more than a side effect of the operation of preferential voting is misrepresented by the propagandists as the consequence of purposeful calculation . |