Example sentences of "be [art] more than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're no more than extensions of their machines , hands to do the computer 's will . |
| 2 | A draw would have been no more than Wolves deserved , but Kiwomya , Ipswich 's most impressive forward , was not finished . |
| 3 | He 'd looked , but most of the items on the Dexion shelving in the anteroom had been no more than shapes under canvas sheets . |
| 4 | The County Council has been very active in trying to find a way forward which retains the objective of relieving the A ten eighty eight of lorries , but reduces the rat run in through the small villages using what are no more than country lanes . |
| 5 | The purist will point out that every aircraft accident results from human error of some kind ; even the most complex technical failure has its origin in the work of a designer , manufacturer or maintenance engineer somewhere , and so-called ‘ acts of God ’ such as structural failure in extreme turbulence beyond the limits of airworthiness criteria are no more than failures of airworthiness engineers to assess the limits correctly . |
| 6 | These developments are , quite naturally , producing fears in government circles that alliances are no more than cartels designed to restrain competition , albeit dressed up in new and more attractive clothes . |
| 7 | These are no more than substitution notes decorating the main harmonies . |
| 8 | If subatomic particles are no more than probabilities until we look at them , why should any one of these probabilities have supremacy over any of the others ? |
| 9 | Unless those constitutional proposals are properly , fully and adequately addressed in a manner that both this House and the other place can accept , they are no more than pipe dreams . |
| 10 | Michael Perry stresses that these are no more than speculations prefaced by ‘ perhaps ’ and ‘ I do n't knows ’ , and adds the caveat that they must be tested against the touchstone of a Christian understanding . |
| 11 | No party will discredit itself by selecting list candidates who are no more than puppets . |
| 12 | Indeed , many of the changes that alter the balance in power in Parliament are no more than changes between voting and non-voting , or vice versa . |
| 13 | My recommendations are no more than guide-lines based on my own judgment and personal preference . |
| 14 | When , however , we examine her definitions and her evidence we find that the differences she discovers in performance skills are no more than differences in explicitness , of the kind noted by Labov . |
| 15 | What is strange about this is that phonemes are no more than elements of meaning but kinship terms also represent real relationships lived by people . |
| 16 | The other course is to withdraw altogether from the awareness , towards a liberation from emotional entanglements in an amoral indifference for which others are no more than means . |
| 17 | There is another possible argument , which can be dealt with quickly , for the conclusion that standard effects are no more than events for which other events are required . |
| 18 | The techniques just described are no more than guidelines in what remains the creative art of studying and describing what an experienced worker is doing or will be required to do . |
| 19 | All right , it may be said , to say ‘ I know ’ and ‘ I remember ’ and ‘ I hope ’ is to do something ; but nevertheless there are some utterances which are no more than expressions of mental states , namely when the mental states in question are simply sensations , such as aches and pains . |
| 20 | The award also challenges China 's long-held view that Tibetans sheltering abroad are no more than terrorists bent on disrupting the ‘ unity of the motherland ’ . |
| 21 | Of course , all these titles like meditation , relaxation and visualization are no more than labels . |
| 22 | The technologies involved , however , are no more than delivery methods , platforms on which new kinds of information products can be built . |
| 23 | Like the critical readings which present themselves as accurate representations of what an author ‘ really ’ intended , what a work ‘ really ’ means , or how a reader ‘ really ’ experiences it , but are no more than interpretations or simulations of these supposedly verifiable facts , readings of ‘ non-fictional ’ texts are also in part fictitious constructs . |
| 24 | BELOW Building on such skeletons , artists can come up with impressions of what dinosaurs like Triceratops looked like , but it should be stressed that such images are no more than guesses . |
| 25 | Logistic units will be established well forward , with resupply aircraft landing on ‘ dirt strips ’ , Which in reality are no more than fiat fields . |
| 26 | ‘ Punishment ’ may be no more than withdrawal of rewards . |
| 27 | All these may be no more than attempts of testing control while there may be an underlying awareness that all is not well . |
| 28 | It was supported by Lorton 's apparent belief that Dougal had taken the money ; but that could be no more than bluff . |
| 29 | ‘ Peaks ’ is actually to give the wrong impression , anywhere else they would be no more than hills ; but on Amantani they give a commanding view of Lake Titicaca and make you feel as if you 're on top of the world . |
| 30 | But fresh controversy arose after the Scottish Office said discussions with industry indicated that the tolls would , at most , be no more than ferry fares — currently £3.80 for a car . |