Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [det] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 2 | Such a government , he argues , perpetually teetering on the brink of defeat and another election , would be nothing more than a lame duck . |
| 3 | This ‘ outsider ’ stance is , of course , nothing new , and if it bore the bulk of the band 's appeal , would be nothing more than a gimmick in itself . |
| 4 | Add in Edith Cresson 's political affiliation , plus her deserved reputation for dirigisme , and the freshly coined sobriquet ‘ Edithatcher ’ seems to be nothing more than a phrase-monger 's fancy . |
| 5 | Their meeting will probably be nothing more than a courteous request from your boyfriend for your parents ' blessing and approval and it should get their relationship off to a good start ! |
| 6 | To her it may seem that not only was she robbed of happiness during her marriage , but that she is now also being denied the right to grieve as well , for there will be those who will be expecting her mourning to be nothing more than a brief bow to convention , followed by a fairly speedy rise in spirits and return to normality . |
| 7 | To her , language seemed to be nothing more than a means of discovering the price of butter or exchanging views about the weather . |
| 8 | It turned out to be nothing more than a charter for busybodies , lacking muscle and new money . |
| 9 | Buddhists of the Northern school of China and Japan evolved their own theory of grace and came to believe in the Buddha as a Saviour , though in the earliest Scriptures he himself claimed to be nothing more than a teacher , a shower of the way . |
| 10 | For both of these reasons , fluorine-oriented life seems to be nothing more than a theoretical fancy . |
| 11 | A major reason for this unconcern is that various fraudsters who have operated in the field have given ESP a bad name : underfunded scientists have far better things to investigate than a phenomenon which seems , on the basis of the available evidence , to be nothing more than a farrago . |
| 12 | It appears to be nothing more than a large cuckoo clock , with a single hand . |
| 13 | This , however , is said to be nothing more than a scantily concealed voluntarism . |
| 14 | Similarly , the Britons Society and Publishing Company appeared to be nothing more than a minuscule middle-class organization with a bee in its bonnet about Jews . |
| 15 | It has proved , at the first time of asking in Test cricket , to be nothing more than a wrist-slapper . |
| 16 | Might South Africa 's continuing claims to the next World Cup be nothing more than a clever cover ? |
| 17 | There are all sorts of reasons why one should not readily excuse such cruel behaviour , but Basil Henriques considered the crime to be nothing more than a boyish prank . |
| 18 | " Might it be nothing more than a girl ? " |
| 19 | It could be nothing more than a speculation , since at that point levels of attainment had no meaning other than their definition in the Report . |
| 20 | The father 's solicitors appear to have thought perhaps otherwise and that the hearing on 27 January would be nothing more than a formality . |
| 21 | " It 's worth remembering , Chuck , that without the white man 's know-how this road would be nothing more than a dusty cart track today . |
| 22 | It was thought to be nothing more than a shattered argillaceous deposit , produced by repeated submarine landslipping and carrying with it exotic blocks ranging in size from small fragments ( plate 4.2 ) up to whole mountains . |
| 23 | Reading is a process of identification with a work and a faithful reading will be nothing more than a word for word repetition of the text . |
| 24 | She would look out over the scenery and think serene thoughts , and before too long Rourke Deveraugh would be nothing more than a hazy memory , a burr on the skin that was shaken off and trampled underfoot . |
| 25 | If a lake is built behind the barrage , it will be nothing more than a sewage pit . |
| 26 | In an interview on French television on Dec. 2 , Saddam Hussein said that " if this meeting is to be a true path to dialogue , then we are closer to peace , … but if this meeting is to be nothing more than a formal exhibition … then we are closer to war " . |
| 27 | In an earlier case , Computer-Aided Systems ( UK ) Ltd. v Bolwell ( 1989 ) , the mere fact that a new program had file compatibility with an earlier program written by the same people failed to impress the judge who considered the plaintiff 's application for inspection of the defendant 's program to be nothing more than a " fishing expedition " . |
| 28 | However , there is no evidence to show that British importers ever used fish caught by drift-net which suggests to some that the agreement may be nothing more than a clever marketing ploy . |
| 29 | If it is used unimaginatively , the microcomputer can be nothing more than a child-minding device aimed to drill certain concepts and skills into pupils with the minimum of teacher intervention . |
| 30 | Even if he 'd shown any signs at all of wanting to have her around — which he had n't — she 'd be nothing more than a burden . |