Example sentences of "[is] nothing [det] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She 's nothing more than a teenager ! ’ |
2 | ‘ It 's nothing more than a crowd of women having a cup of tea . |
3 | But it 's nothing more than a double-cross , really . |
4 | ‘ He 's nothing less than a murderer . |
5 | Short-term pain for long-term gain — or in his words , ‘ this is nothing less than a call to arms , to restore the vitality of the American dream ’ . |
6 | This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said . |
7 | An absolutely blatant digression , it is nothing less than a lecture on the whole idea of locked rooms . |
8 | ‘ I believe that what we have heard and seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . ’ |
9 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
10 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
11 | It is nothing less than the invocation of a two-language model of social scientific inquiry : that of theory and that of research ; that of concepts and that of variables . |
12 | The development of creativity is nothing less than the stocking of the mind with innumerable images and allowing the mixture to work as in fermentation to produce its astonishing results . |
13 | But the play also acknowledges quite clearly that what is at stake is nothing less than the legitimacy of the whole social order , hinging as it does on a ‘ naturally ’ sanctioned law of sexual difference . |
14 | Squatting is nothing less than the seizure of another 's property without consent . |
15 | It is nothing less than the crisis of humanism as a religion being played out in economic life . |
16 | The renewed mind is nothing less than the mind of Christ in the believer , a mind so under his authority that its presuppositions are entirely influenced and informed by the truth of God . |
17 | As for Genet , someone whose involvement with the different has variously been repudiated as fascist , racist , and anarchistic , his Prisoner of Love is nothing less than an affirmation of the love that Fanon envisaged and which has sometimes given the dissident their courage . |
18 | Wood 's principles are those of Loudon more than three decades later : ‘ a palace is nothing more than a cottage IMPROVED ’ , he wrote . |
19 | ‘ This is very interesting , ’ she said , ‘ but I 'm afraid that it is nothing more than a performance . |
20 | ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’ |
21 | Thus , it is nothing more than a clearing house which does nothing in its own right . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ . |
24 | The exhibition therefore is nothing more than a rerun of Celant 's European power-broking of the lat 1960s , a European and specifically a Milanese challenge to America 's claim to the avant-garde which nevertheless included many successful ( male ) American artists of the period . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | The fact that you report through him is nothing more than a formula to save his face . |
27 | The right of assembly , as Professor Dicey puts it , is nothing more than a view taken by the court of the individual liberty of the subject . |
28 | The right of assembly , as PROFESSOR DICEY puts it ( LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION ( 8TH Edn. ) p. 499 ) , is nothing more than a view taken by the courts of individual liberty of speech . |
29 | The right of assembling is nothing more than a result of the view taken by the courts as to individual liberty of person and individual liberty of speech . |
30 | This denial is exposed by the strategy of ‘ family planning ’ in our country , which is nothing more than a pillar of the apartheid programme . |