Example sentences of "[be] nothing more than [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the tools through which life manifests and functions on the material plane , but without the animating principle — the life force or vital energy — they are nothing more than complex chemistry . |
| 2 | He held that beliefs in laws and theories are nothing more than psychological habits that we acquire as a result of repetitions of the relevant observations . |
| 3 | The resulting final accounts are nothing more than summarized cash books . |
| 4 | Many so-called crypts beneath churches are nothing more than empty charnels — G.H. Cook gives at least twenty such examples — though those at Hythe in Kent and Rothwell in Northamptonshire are still full . |
| 5 | As Williams ( 1978 ) pointed out , such statements are nothing more than promissory notes . |
| 6 | Sometimes younger people consider this to be nothing more than morbid indulgence , and refuse to listen , mainly because it is a subject they do not care to think about . |
| 7 | Some have been toppled , and some are so eroded that they appear to be nothing more than wind-scoured boulders . |
| 8 | He could n't believe that those nobs in the West End were willing to pay good money for things that seemed to him to be nothing more than unnecessary luxuries . |
| 9 | But , the next day in court , these same stone-throwing anarchists complained that they were nothing more than innocent bystanders , who had been brutalized by policemen and thrown into Black Marias . |
| 10 | ‘ The messages were nothing more than trivial fragments , like matters overheard in the Métro , poor woman … . |
| 11 | Does he recall saying in his Disraeli lecture to a Conservative audience that high levels of borrowing were nothing more than deferred taxation ? |
| 12 | That 's nothing more than circumstantial evidence — even you ca n't brand me guilty on that ! ’ |
| 13 | In fact , the quack cancer therapy laetrile is nothing more than apricot kernels , and although high-sounding claims were made for the effects of nature 's cyanide on rampant cells , laetrile has proved useless . |
| 14 | National Socialism is nothing more than applied biology . |
| 15 | Pollen grains , which consist largely of precious genetic material , are quite demanding for a plant to produce and many flowers offer , either in addition or as an alternative , a payment that is considerably cheaper for it is nothing more than sweetened water , nectar . |
| 16 | Is that because the report does not substantiate the proposals in the Education ( Schools ) Bill , which is nothing more than English ideology that the Government are transmitting to Wales ? |
| 17 | It was nothing more than ridiculous hysteria and totally unreal , but only a few people saw this and John Keith in Forres was one of them . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was nothing more than idle curiosity . |