Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 In 1987 , soul is no more than a packed vehicle beating a hasty retreat from what are perceived as the excesses of white modernism .
33 The theory ( and it is no more than a theory ) goes something like this .
34 The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989 .
35 However gifted , a theatre director is no more than a metteur en scène .
36 Vienna Dear Fräulein , I hope and believe the sad condition you describe is no more than a temporary fantasy .
37 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 .
38 But such ‘ telling-all ’ is no more than a form of exhibitionism .
39 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 .
40 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 .
41 The GP in this social world — far from being an expert — is no more than a layperson , with the same prejudices as others .
42 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 .
43 All that has been achieved , he or she now claims , is no more than a revelation of some primordial ordering of humanity .
44 Without religion , man is no more than a form of brute beast .
45 This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone , but is no more than a few metres thick at most .
46 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
47 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 .
48 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 .
49 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 .
50 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 .
51 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 .
52 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 .
53 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 !
54 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 .
55 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 .
56 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 .
57 Egoism , then , is no more than a terminus towards which interacting individuals are pushed by competition .
58 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 . ’
59 So far as this is no more than a cost-cutting exercise it falls outside the scope of this article .
60 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 .
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