Example sentences of "[noun] [be] nothing more [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too many people believe football is nothing more than a game , but you and I know it to be so much more . |
| 2 | Because , of course , the Counterweight Continent was nothing more than a solar myth . |
| 3 | In reality , the basis for the prevailing sense of optimism was nothing more than a sense that , with hostilities now ended , everyone could get back to business as usual . |
| 4 | When people first encounter it their normal assumption is that an alternate universe is nothing more than a ‘ what might have been ’ ; science-fiction writers have toyed with that idea for decades . |
| 5 | It is like pedigree dogs — a pedigree is special but a cross-breed is nothing more than a mongrel . |
| 6 | ‘ The fact that , after five years of separation , I 'm still married to Ross is nothing more than a mere technicality ! ’ |
| 7 | There are those who remain unconvinced of the benefits of a good environmental audit , arguing that the process is nothing more than a shallow , expensive public relations exercise . |
| 8 | A good picture is nothing more than a perfect equilibrium , that is to say a balance of weights and a harmony of numbers . |
| 9 | They were usually minor KGB agents , and the two-thousand-dollar charge was nothing more than a way of increasing the Soviet Union 's foreign exchange . |
| 10 | The room was nothing more than a dry , musty cell . |
| 11 | I could sidle up to the hi-fi and turn it off , snap on the light-switch and announce quite calmly to all the sycophants here that Luke Denner is nothing more than a callous murderer . |
| 12 | The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is nothing more than a rather larger Americanised version of Wookey Hole in Somerset or the Dan-yr-Ogof caves in South Wales . |
| 13 | Multimedia education is nothing more than a new version of a teaching machine , albeit with real-time video , and teaching machines do n't work . |
| 14 | So we may come to the third proposition of this book : THE SEDIMENTARY PILE AT ANY ONE PLACE ON THE EARTH 'S SURFACE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TINY AND FRAGMENTARY RECORD OF VAST PERIODS OF EARTH HISTORY . |
| 15 | Perhaps the manifest intrinsic contusions which surface in each of the foregoing theories are enough to write them oft , and to show how the same/different metaphysic is nothing more than a potently confused , highly discriminating mixed metaphor . |
| 16 | The immediate reaction was that the discovery of Pluto was nothing more than a small-scale diversion : there must be a tenth planet out there , and a very large planet at that . |
| 17 | Thus , between 1744 and 1767 , Hermann Samuel Reimarus , a professor at Hamburg , had argued that Jesus was nothing more than a failed Judaic revolutionary whose body was removed from its tomb by his disciples . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | It was said of Comte that ‘ the woman he chose as his wife was nothing more than a means for the immediate gratification of his crude sexuality ’ . |
| 20 | Strictly speaking , the king was nothing more than a servant , a vessel , a vehicle , through which the divine will manifested itself . |
| 21 | " Your saints are nothing more than a lot of mischief-makers . " |
| 22 | To oppose them is a patriotic act ; their own use of national flags and symbols is nothing more than a sham masking their terroristic inclinations . |
| 23 | The citizens charter is nothing more than a glossy confection . |
| 24 | ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’ |
| 25 | If life is nothing more than a moving from one activity to the next it is not surprising if we become restless , cluttered and superficial . |
| 26 | Quite a few people argue that managed competition is nothing more than a compromise , cobbled together to make sure that the mighty insurers and high-tech hospitals stay in business . |
| 27 | The Jew is nothing more than a popular villain ( bear in mind that Marlowe had just had a success with The Jew Of Malta ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The promotion was nothing more than a device to give Richard Sharpe some status on the Prince of Orange 's staff , but so far as Sharpe himself was concerned he was still a Rifleman . |
| 30 | To Michael Powell documentary was nothing more than a refuge for ‘ disappointed feature filmmakers or out-of-work poets ’ , but the wartime films he made within an immensely fruitful collaboration ( the Archers ) with the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger , with the two of them sharing credits for production , direction and screenwriting , take on documentary concerns in ways which indicate that the absorption of the documentary filmmakers into commercial filmmaking was only an incidental part of a process with roots deep in wartime culture . |