Example sentences of "be [art] more [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These are no more than substitution notes decorating the main harmonies . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The technologies involved , however , are no more than delivery methods , platforms on which new kinds of information products can be built . |
| 5 | Logistic units will be established well forward , with resupply aircraft landing on ‘ dirt strips ’ , Which in reality are no more than fiat fields . |
| 6 | ‘ Punishment ’ may be no more than withdrawal of rewards . |
| 7 | It was supported by Lorton 's apparent belief that Dougal had taken the money ; but that could be no more than bluff . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It can of course be no more than speculation to consider whether this total concern with instalment size makes people less likely to keep up conscientiously with the payments than they would be if they had a clear idea of their total commitment . |
| 10 | Most of the buildings seen from the airport appeared to be no more than mud huts , although there were some larger buildings of brick and rough stone . |
| 11 | The adviser 's advice shall be no more than advice . |
| 12 | Bear in mind that most of the ‘ highways ’ leading out of medieval London were no more than bridle paths . |
| 13 | Hari 's wash of hurt pride and anger vanished as suddenly as it had come , though she realized that Craig 's words were no more than flattery . |
| 14 | Just as the great majority of stations in the United States and Canada , particularly in the earlier period , were no more than frame sheds , so thousands of stations in Africa and Asia were very simple buildings indeed . |
| 15 | This is a prize that should be treated with contempt , for , like most Japanese gifts to museums and other ‘ cultural ’ interventions , it is no more than camouflage for their commercial and industrial rapacity , and at its worst is an anaesthetic that renders the recipient quite helpless to protest . |
| 16 | Proponents of the agency model argue that the partnership view is no more than rhetoric , for the following reasons : |
| 17 | It is not a sign of " malice " to refuse an apology , or to repeat the allegations prior to trial , or to persist in them at the trial : this is no more than steadfastness in the cause ( although if the allegations turn out to be false , such conduct may increase the damages . ) |
| 18 | If it is true that some of them are not quite what they were — and even this grasped-at straw is no more than speculation — we may rest assured that the successor generation brought on tour to breathe down their necks will be as good if not better . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , that Empire which , as Dryden said , ‘ is no more than power in trust ’ , provoked a world war . |
| 20 | It really is no more than intuition . |
| 21 | For a state which defines ‘ security ’ as favourable movement in the ‘ world correlation of forces ’ , peace is no more than war by other ( conventional , non-violent ) means . |
| 22 | If empiricism is claiming to be the study of the observable and explicable , then it is no more than behaviourism returned , vampire-like , to seek new life in the fear-ridden haunted village of modern academia . |
| 23 | Of the others — and this is no more than reportage of answers to the question - the ambulance services emerge reasonably well , in that they allow service by right of assessment . |
| 24 | The Chancellor 's admission that the PSBR will reach £50 billion in 1993 is no more than City economists were bandying around last autumn . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was no more than frustration , a demand for physical relief . |
| 26 | In fact , contrary to what has sometimes been said about his modesty , he enjoyed talking about his work , even when it was no more than work in progress . |
| 27 | It would be wrong , however , to suggest that this infrastructural augmentation was no more than window-dressing . |
| 28 | This was no more than bravado since I charged blindly on . |
| 29 | It became increasingly difficult for assistance from outside to reach the nationalists , and their united front with the communists was no more than skin deep , but even so the Japanese could not extract a surrender . |
| 30 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |