Example sentences of "[am/are] [art] [det] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , as has been said previously , the principles by which claims are handled are the same whether a Writ is served or not , and it is , therefore , of paramount importance that the insurer should not feel that he must defer to the advice of his solicitor once proceedings are raised . |
| 2 | The prices are the same as a holiday in Amsterdam . |
| 3 | More often than not , they 're no more than a glass through which the all-important text is transmitted . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're no more than a blackmailer ! ’ |
| 5 | The rhetoric may point to extreme scepticism or Pyrrhonism but its users , if pressed , are likely to retreat to positions which are no more than a modified version of traditional ones . |
| 6 | Other memories are no more than a nutshell description , a fleeting image , perhaps of an eccentricity . |
| 7 | However , they are no more than a first stage . |
| 8 | Some of the larger birds , like the blackbirds and thrushes , often risk a little dive-bombing , in which they swoop down on the owl from a distance of about 30 feet , heading straight for it , and then swerve aside only at the very last moment , when they are no more than a foot away . |
| 9 | The article implies that district societies are no more than a local practitioners ' club . |
| 10 | In what sense do these mark a crossroads while the others are no more than a widening of the road ? |
| 11 | Some of the Discourses printed in them are no more than a title , but most are published in full . |
| 12 | Those marks are no more than a few weeks old , that 's certain , but within that time no one knows when they were made . |
| 13 | Important [ but unrecognized ] though they may be to the man in the street , functional methacrylates are no more than a small side-branch in ICI 's acrylic chain . |
| 14 | Individuals ' 'ego ideals ' are seen as being systematically transferred to charismatic leader figures , organisations and the values ( including those of family , church and patriarchal authority ) which are no less than a displaced version of the all-providing ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ figure of childhood . |