Example sentences of "is [indef pn] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air bricks , extractor fans , open fires and dehumidifiers all help , but often you have to learn to live with it — and there is nothing worse than a new house which was built in wet conditions . |
| 2 | There is nothing worse than a shy ferret . |
| 3 | Truly , there is nothing worse than a world-weary hippie , and nothing more strictly self-superior than the elders of the benevolent-beat-bohemian class . |
| 4 | There is nothing worse than a bendy sea boat . |
| 5 | Mr Pei 's pyramid in the Louvre is fine architecture , but it is nothing other than a new front door . |
| 6 | Yet for Gunn and his circle of friends AIDS is nothing other than a plague , striking randomly but inevitably . |
| 7 | There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season , with its pylons marching up a scarred , broken hillside . |
| 8 | Additionally , a more complete picture of the settlement at Cosmeston is accessible to the public by virtue of the way the excavations have been interpreted and presented for the visitor : the ultimate goal is nothing less than a full-scale , working reconstruction of the medieval village . |
| 9 | It is nothing less than a national scandal that such despicable practices can take place in 1894 ! ’ |
| 10 | An absolutely blatant digression , it is nothing less than a lecture on the whole idea of locked rooms . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ This is very interesting , ’ she said , ‘ but I 'm afraid that it is nothing more than a performance . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | The Jew is nothing more than a popular villain ( bear in mind that Marlowe had just had a success with The Jew Of Malta ) . |
| 16 | Perhaps the manifest intrinsic contusions which surface in each of the foregoing theories are enough to write them oft , and to show how the same/different metaphysic is nothing more than a potently confused , highly discriminating mixed metaphor . |
| 17 | Multimedia education is nothing more than a new version of a teaching machine , albeit with real-time video , and teaching machines do n't work . |
| 18 | Just when we 're strapped for cash , only a load of new clothes can save us from looking dowdy — you would n't be alone in thinking that the whole thing is nothing more than a brilliant wheeze dreamt up by the fashion industry whenever times get tough . |
| 19 | The fact that you report through him is nothing more than a formula to save his face . |
| 20 | I trust that this is nothing more than a proofreading error . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Indeed , so Sir Karl assures us , Science really is nothing more than a continuous abandonment of ideas shown by objective , scientific inquiry , to be untenable . |
| 25 | There are those who remain unconvinced of the benefits of a good environmental audit , arguing that the process is nothing more than a shallow , expensive public relations exercise . |
| 26 | ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’ |
| 27 | Yet those who know Diana know this is nothing more than a working business arrangement . |
| 28 | When people first encounter it their normal assumption is that an alternate universe is nothing more than a ‘ what might have been ’ ; science-fiction writers have toyed with that idea for decades . |
| 29 | The table is nothing more than a rough guide , not an order of merit . |
| 30 | Despite the suspicions the adventurers will surely have , this is nothing more than a standard mirror with no magical properties whatsoever — unless you decide to add some , of course . |