Example sentences of "as no more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a senior officer were to be viewed as no more than a member of an amorphous managerial team , said Mr Roach , the public would be led to believe that any complaint against a policemen was merely being investigated by ‘ one of the boys . |
| 2 | The established head taking up a keen interest in marketing may well be seen as no more than a leopard cynically changing spots to match the climate of LMS and the introduction of pupil driven funding . |
| 3 | Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent . |
| 4 | Early travellers to Mozambique described the station at Beira as no more than a muddy , fever-infested street corner . |
| 5 | The present occupant may say ‘ Oh well , I let old Mrs Smith walk through my garden and down the sideway when she needs to ’ and regard it as no more than a neighbours ' agreement . |
| 6 | I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend . |
| 7 | One view sees retirement as no more than a form of compulsory unemployment within an economy which can no longer offer full employment . |
| 8 | The CGT , for instance , has regarded collective bargaining as no more than a temporary measure of the balance of power between management and unions , enabling the union to obtain the best negotiating results for wage-earners at a given point in time ( Goetschy , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | The claim that unschooled Wolof children have not developed the ‘ logical functions ’ of language will appear then as no more than a statement that the conventions in which their thinking is expressed are different from those of the researcher herself . |
| 10 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 11 | If , by contrast , the company was viewed as no more than a contractual association between the members much like a partnership , it was difficult to explain why each shareholder should not be liable for the full extent of any debts , as was the case in a partnership . |
| 12 | Participatory democracy necessarily has implications for social life , and is better regarded as a way of life than as no more than a political device or method . |
| 13 | Sartre ultimately chose to ignore the constructive Marxist elements in Nizan 's life and work which , from the vantage point of 1960 , were perceived as no more than a Stalinist mystification and selected instead as the model for a post-Stalinist epoch , the uncompromising rebellion of a young intellectual of the 1920s venting his spleen on the iniquities of bourgeois oppression at home and colonial oppression abroad . |
| 14 | In a further speech in August 1987 he complained that there had been a tendency both in the USSR and outside it to see the socialist construction of the 1930s as no more than a series of mistakes . |
| 15 | But the villagers regarded the new name as no more than a foreigner 's eccentric fancy which they were under no obligation either to use or recognise . |
| 16 | I could n't make up my mind about him , regarding him at times as some grotesque theatrical maniac , at other times as no more than a pleasant , if somewhat mysterious , travelling companion . |
| 17 | The expression on her face read my last remark as no more than a condescending gesture of patient sympathy such as she must have met many times before . |
| 18 | The cult had remained after those who had brought it had embraced the gods of the Black Land , the true gods , the gods of the land in which they now lived , but it remained as no more than a fashion among the rich . |
| 19 | They treat Scotland as no more than a mere appendage of England , and seek to impose on Scotland an educational agenda that is irrelevant to the real needs of Scottish education . |
| 20 | From seeming to be a parable or a satire , it ends up as no more than a glimpse of the stunted mentality of a twosome . |
| 21 | At home , on both wings of her Cabinet , are ministers who regard green politics as no more than the latest fad ; the election will not be won by fighting on the beaches , in the air , and in the green belts , but once again in the pockets of the people , is their view . |
| 22 | From the conference of Berchtesgaden in November 1937 to the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938 , from the increasingly threatening noises over Czechoslovakia in March 1938 to the abdication of Munich in September 1938 , from the last-ditch , desperate attempts to cobble together a tripartite agreement in May 1939 to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact in August 1939 , there was a sense of deathly inevitability compared to which Nizan 's repeated calls for collective security appear as no more than the efforts of a man crying in the wilderness . |
| 23 | Although at the time it was seen as no more than the correction of an anomaly , only at the Labour Party 's annual conference in 1979 was the formal position of the Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party brought into line with the de facto position by his being accorded the title of ‘ Leader of the Labour Party ’ . |
| 24 | This is the reason Keynes called his theory a general theory — he regarded the classical theory as no more than the ‘ special case ’ where the equilibrium and full employment levels of income coincided . |
| 25 | It may be concluded from this that prey size can be used as no more than an approximation to predator type , and size spectra are certainly not predator-specific . |
| 26 | These adults never actually appear on the screen and their speech is represented as no more than an incoherent buzz of verbal static , because adults are irrelevant to the world of Charlie Brown , Lucy , Linus , Snoopy and Woodstock . |
| 27 | The appointment of Oleg Lobov , a former construction engineer and close friend of Mr Yeltsin , as a deputy prime minister responsible for the economy had shifted the balance of power within the government towards the Gosplan-types , who favour a return to central planning and tend to dismiss budget deficits as no more than an accountant 's fancy . |
| 28 | the Court of Appeal regarded ‘ common benefit ’ as no more than an element ( although an important element ) in showing consent in cases of the type of Carstairs v. Taylor . |
| 29 | We are kept reading by the promise of an original sin or trauma that will justify — either in psychological or moral terms — the very existence of the story , but stripped of the successive identities he has built up over the years , Philip 's father is revealed as no more than an insecure , over-imaginative little boy . |
| 30 | Did he really expect her to smile now and fall in with his plans , treat all this deception as no more than an unusual diversion ? |