Example sentences of "was [art] more [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 2 | The manager thought his lunchtime call to Anfield was no more than a formality . |
| 3 | All of us that is except uncle Eugenio , who had never been to see a film , saying that it was a fraud , all illusion , and that when the lights went up and all the characters disappeared the screen was no more than a rag . |
| 4 | Ferrari chose to hide its two-pedal Mondial on component supplier Valeo 's stand in the faint hope of convincing people its clutchless transmission was no more than a experimental engineering car . |
| 5 | Happily , these include some of the most desperate cases , like Borringdon , a once-magnificent Elizabethan house outside Plymouth which was no more than a gutted shell clinging to a precipice , but today is a comfortable country house hotel . |
| 6 | It was no more than a shadow on his deepening melancholy . |
| 7 | Among the estate 's residents , the fact that several people have been charged or convicted of offences against the Ks cuts no ice : the estate version is that what took place was no more than a personal vendetta , between Ramesh K and the man who broke his nose . |
| 8 | Warnings from the opposition that the government 's ‘ No Tax Increases ’ slogan was no more than a vote-gathering lie were rebuffed as fear-mongering and , better still , as unpatriotic . |
| 9 | But Malebranche rejected various parts of Descartes 's proof , concluding that theoretically the material world was no more than a possibility , and could be accepted only on the basis of faith . |
| 10 | Again Mungo had the sensation that the village was no more than a clearing ; a space borrowed from the forest . |
| 11 | It was no more than a wooden shed , with shelves layered round the walls , and a counter . |
| 12 | For Origen that was no more than a matter of tactics in controversy , not one of principle . |
| 13 | The pressure of legal penalties , not only against pagans but eventually also against heretics , schismatics , and Jews , no doubt had a part to play ; but to judge by the extent to which Christian mobs could get their way without restraint years before the emperors ' coercive legislation , enacted in the years after 390 , it was no more than a minor part . |
| 14 | Here it seems important to distinguish between Hitler 's image as portrayed to and perceived by the mass of the population , in which anti-Semitism was no more than a subsidiary component of the ‘ Führer myth ’ , and his image as viewed from within the Nazi Movement and sections of the State bureaucracy , where his ‘ mission ’ to destroy the Jews functioned as a symbolic motivating force for the Party and SS , and an activating and legitimating agent for government initiatives to ‘ force the pace ’ in finding a ‘ radical solution ’ to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 15 | But this was no more than a temporary reversal in the most savage onslaught from England which the Scots had ever experienced . |
| 16 | For most horses it 's a big fence , but to him it was no more than a hurdle . |
| 17 | He said that in some countries the president was no more than a decorative figure . |
| 18 | The farmer who sold it was happy to rid himself of a wreck which was no more than a dangerous playground . |
| 19 | Cam had a vague memory of a glamorous ‘ aunt ’ , who had once taken a remote interest in his father , but it was no more than a shadow . |
| 20 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |
| 21 | It was no more than a change of emphasis , but it emboldened the opposition . |
| 22 | In Washington , DC , the first station , of 1835 , was no more than a converted house . |
| 23 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 24 | Colaba , built in 1893 , was no more than a pleasant , small , English country town station , with Gothic windows , a tight upstanding porte cochère , and a single tower . |
| 25 | At Christchurch the original station was no more than a collection of sheds , but in 1877 it was replaced by a long Gothic structure — a rare example in the southern hemisphere — which looked like a succession of chapels at right angles to the platforms with a connecting range running between them . |
| 26 | It had a resale value , even if it was no more than a few lire . |
| 27 | The sheller , it turned out , was no more than a series of rollers , covered with hard rubber . |
| 28 | Together with the data from the transits of Mercury , this re-interpretation of the old records led to the conclusion that the maximum extent of any change on the Sun 's radius since 1850 was no more than a decline of 0.08 seconds of arc per century , with a possible error range of plus or minus 0.07 . |
| 29 | Sometimes it was no more than a retaining fee ; sometimes , like a normal feudal holding , it paid the knight for some period of service . |
| 30 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |