Example sentences of "[was/were] [indef pn] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Why did she let herself feel so safe with him , when to him she was nothing more than a hot-tempered child with a woman 's body ? |
| 32 | The room was nothing more than a dry , musty cell . |
| 33 | Because , of course , the Counterweight Continent was nothing more than a solar myth . |
| 34 | ‘ It was nothing more than a mental aberration on my part . ’ |
| 35 | Still she lifted her chin slightly and tried to ignore the media attention , knowing that it was all really centred on Ace and that she was nothing more than a decorative addition to his charismatic presence . |
| 36 | Until Silas came it was nothing more than a wilderness . ’ |
| 37 | I sat in on a board meeting the week before last and the Manager 's alleged report was nothing more than a series of orders closely followed by a succession of demands . |
| 38 | In the middle of the afternoon , she rang her office : there was nothing more than a routine acknowledgment of the debriefing report she had sent after Maxim 's meeting with the Secret Service . |
| 39 | The house was nothing more than a front wall . |
| 40 | We should not go too far and argue that the alleged conflict between the monied and landed interests was nothing more than a propagandist 's fiction . |
| 41 | Lord Dilhorne and Lord Russell both thought that there was nothing more than a gift , whereas Lord Fraser , dissenting , considered that there had been a sale of both articles ( ie the petrol and the coins ) in one transaction . |
| 42 | ‘ That what the old lady witnessed was nothing more than a lovers ’ quarrel . ’ |
| 43 | In her early days as a singer she had encountered those who had wrongly assumed she was nothing more than a beautiful but empty-headed blonde . |
| 44 | She had repeatedly told herself her response to his touch was nothing more than a temporary aberration on her part , that familiarity must inevitably breed contempt , that sooner or later she would feel nothing more than irritation . |
| 45 | In a statement confirming the party 's refusal to meet the American delegation , Ian Paisley Jnr was quick to claim that Mr Morrison had been ‘ trounced ’ in a congressional election and was nothing more than a ‘ trouble-maker ’ . |
| 46 | Then they turn against the Prime Minister with a viciousness and a bitterness that suggests that previous talk of unity was nothing more than a charade . |
| 47 | In an outspoken attack in the News of the World , the 54-year-old condemned his religious upbringing as ‘ brainwashing ’ and claimed : ‘ Jesus was nothing more than a magician just like me . ’ |
| 48 | This gave her hope , for it was nothing less than a re-birth that Maggie was aiming for . |
| 49 | Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to bring computers and ordinary people together . |
| 50 | Boy George , though , was nothing less than a man in drag , a gender-bender who flounced his sexuality in the faces of outrages tabloids and ecstatic teenage girls . |
| 51 | This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull . |
| 52 | What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution . |
| 53 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , France developed what was nothing less than a long-term naval strategy . |
| 54 | She had always found being on stage an incredible joy , but this was nothing less than a nightmare , every second seeming to stretch for an eternity , and her usual spontaneity had completely deserted her , leaving her painfully self-conscious , horribly aware of every word she uttered . |
| 55 | It turns out that the independent property consultancy was none other than a subsidiary of the national ports authority , which is a major shareholder in the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 56 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |
| 57 | It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front . |
| 58 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
| 59 | She was something more than a housekeeper , more also than a nurse . |
| 60 | Photography is 80 per cent casting , and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face . |