Example sentences of "[is] no [det] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I insisted in my foreword that spiritual warfare was down to earth and it is no less than modernity where the battle is now raging . |
| 2 | This is a prize that should be treated with contempt , for , like most Japanese gifts to museums and other ‘ cultural ’ interventions , it is no more than camouflage for their commercial and industrial rapacity , and at its worst is an anaesthetic that renders the recipient quite helpless to protest . |
| 3 | Proponents of the agency model argue that the partnership view is no more than rhetoric , for the following reasons : |
| 4 | It is not a sign of " malice " to refuse an apology , or to repeat the allegations prior to trial , or to persist in them at the trial : this is no more than steadfastness in the cause ( although if the allegations turn out to be false , such conduct may increase the damages . ) |
| 5 | If it is true that some of them are not quite what they were — and even this grasped-at straw is no more than speculation — we may rest assured that the successor generation brought on tour to breathe down their necks will be as good if not better . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , that Empire which , as Dryden said , ‘ is no more than power in trust ’ , provoked a world war . |
| 7 | It really is no more than intuition . |
| 8 | For a state which defines ‘ security ’ as favourable movement in the ‘ world correlation of forces ’ , peace is no more than war by other ( conventional , non-violent ) means . |
| 9 | If empiricism is claiming to be the study of the observable and explicable , then it is no more than behaviourism returned , vampire-like , to seek new life in the fear-ridden haunted village of modern academia . |
| 10 | Of the others — and this is no more than reportage of answers to the question - the ambulance services emerge reasonably well , in that they allow service by right of assessment . |
| 11 | The Chancellor 's admission that the PSBR will reach £50 billion in 1993 is no more than City economists were bandying around last autumn . |