Example sentences of "[was/were] [indef pn] [adj] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The president of the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , Clarence Makwetu , said that the proposals were nothing more than the " dressing up of land apartheid in new clothes " . |
| 2 | The raw materials which the Marines used for their scrimshandering were none other than the mighty , ceramically strengthened finger bones — the metacarpals and phalanges — of Imperial Fists who had died in battle or , surviving to old age , been permitted honourable euthanasia . |
| 3 | These 11 species of birds identified by Gould were none other than the Galapagos finches . |
| 4 | Since industrial anarchy was nothing other than the other side of the coin of the rapidly rising crime levels , both would be defeated by tough measures which would restore to the citizen a feeling of security and freedom . |
| 5 | To many people , talk of greater denominational unity was nothing more than the application to religion of current political nostrums like collectivism or , worse , ‘ socialism ’ . |
| 6 | Maybe it was nothing more than the statistical impossibility of everyone staying home all of the time . |
| 7 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
| 8 | The serious consequences of confusion between experts and arbitrators are underlined by the fact that the subject-matter of this case that the Court of Appeal had to deal with was nothing more than the rent of a car park . |
| 9 | Just as at Henry VIII 's death in 1547 , what was at stake in 1542 was nothing less than the religious and political future of the kingdom ; and that was entirely uncertain . |
| 10 | As you might expect , the message of these hieroglyphs was nothing less than the instructions as to how to build an antigravity propulsion unit ( based on magnetism ) , like the ones which the Venusians , had used in –their– spacefaring days . |
| 11 | With France in chaos , its king a prisoner , Navarrese forces in control in Normandy and English garrisons established not just in Brittany and Aquitaine but also in Anjou , Maine and Touraine , it must have appeared to Edward that his ultimate triumph was in sight , and it is arguable that now , after the failure of the Second Treaty of London , Edward 's aim was nothing less than the crown . |
| 12 | The object of the Federation was nothing less than the destruction of his organisation by any means at its disposal and with whatever violence was necessary to achieve that end . |
| 13 | After Pentecost , they became assured that their experience of God 's activity in their midst and in their mission was nothing less than the continued work and presence of Jesus among them . |
| 14 | He come to the remarkable conclusion that Ardakke was nothing less than the setting for the next evolutionary step for mankind . |
| 15 | Inside was none other than the Queen . |
| 16 | It was none other than the heir to the throne , blissfully unaware , and convulsed with mirth . |
| 17 | Cross 's immediate opponent was none other than the great ‘ Fanny ’ Walden and the Spurs side was laden with internationals . |
| 18 | Thus she was quite close to the bath chair before she realized that its waxen-faced occupant was none other than the old man who , in his eerie fashion , had been so kind in the train . |
| 19 | The absurdity of the Italian ‘ recruitment ’ system is revealed by what could safely be described as the ‘ Aquila paradox ’ — the man sidelined by Martin was none other than the successful Italian fullback Luigi Troiani . |
| 20 | Probably , for the United Company of Undertakers was never admitted at the Guildhall , and their ‘ house ’ was none other than the business premises of Robert Legg Snr , upholder , appraiser and undertaker . |
| 21 | The Master of this new lodge was none other than the imperial royal chamberlain , Johann , Count Esterházy ; while the Master of Ceremonies was Haydn 's employer , Prince Nikolaus Esterházy . |
| 22 | For among the noteworthy ( ? ) in attendance was none other than the Right Horrible DAVID MELLOR MP , the newly appointed so-called ‘ Minister For Fun ’ in JOHNNY MAJOR 's cabinet . |
| 23 | Fancy my not guessing at once that the Umpire She was on about was none other than the top man himself . |
| 24 | Is he aware that the right hon. Gentleman who so described it was none other than the Leader of the Opposition ? |
| 25 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 26 | The man in black lowered his binoculars to reveal that he was none other than the Anti-Rex himself . |
| 27 | Now , it was logically possible that the cue used by the recruits following a dancer was something other than the angle of the dance — and for a while von Frisch was sharply criticised for precisely this reason . |
| 28 | Surely this was something more than the heat of twelve geese cooking on a summer 's night ? |
| 29 | When the two sides met again at the hill station of Dalat in April 1946 it was obvious that the immediate disagreement was on the nature of the Indochina Federation and whether or not the Government of Vietnam , which the French had already recognized , was anything more than the Republic of Tonkin . |
| 30 | There was no initial reason to suspect Daine 's Dream was anything more than the usual hacker incursion , too tiny to bother about . |