Example sentences of "be of [art] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we saw in World War II when SOE agents in France were deliberately sacrificed in order to plant deception schemes upon the Germans , ' ! espionage is a very brutal-game in which human lives are of no more significance than pieces on a chess board . |
| 2 | The fact of Jesus ’ maleness then would seem to be of no more import than is his or her sexuality in the case of any other human being . |
| 3 | Without them we had been , as formerly , a Prey to every petty Invader ; and the flourishing Empire of Great-Britain would be of no more consequence in Europe than the petty Republick of Lucca in Italy . |
| 4 | On this view , understandably , animals would be of no more worth in themselves than drugs or edifying books that produced the same effect . |
| 5 | Pairs of RIC men were patrolling on each side of the wide thoroughfare and , though to Jacob they were of no more account than any other pedestrians , he realised that Deirdre could not feel so unconcerned . |
| 6 | However , generalisations about the sexuality of women is of no more relevance in a criminal trial than generalisations about sadistic tendencies or pornographic fantasies in men . |
| 7 | It is sometimes said that the difference of sex is of no more significance than the difference of race . |
| 8 | The above two examples give body to the suggestion by Alan Clarke that early learning , in itself , is of no more consequence than learning at any other stage of development , and that it will bring about long-term effects only if it is repeatedly reinforced throughout subsequent childhood . |
| 9 | ‘ This man is of no more use to the world than those artists who came to fawn on me and scrape a little importance for themselves . |
| 10 | In that year , 1955 , when McCarthy was of no more consequence , twenty-two witnesses plucked up courage not to testify , including the folk singer , Pete Seeger , who got a year in jail for his stand . |
| 11 | I did so , and seeing I was of no more use , I rushed inside to awaken my older brother and sister to show them what had happened . |