Example sentences of "was [indef pn] more than a " in BNC.
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| 31 | I sat in on a board meeting the week before last and the Manager 's alleged report was nothing more than a series of orders closely followed by a succession of demands . |
| 32 | In the middle of the afternoon , she rang her office : there was nothing more than a routine acknowledgment of the debriefing report she had sent after Maxim 's meeting with the Secret Service . |
| 33 | The house was nothing more than a front wall . |
| 34 | We should not go too far and argue that the alleged conflict between the monied and landed interests was nothing more than a propagandist 's fiction . |
| 35 | Lord Dilhorne and Lord Russell both thought that there was nothing more than a gift , whereas Lord Fraser , dissenting , considered that there had been a sale of both articles ( ie the petrol and the coins ) in one transaction . |
| 36 | ‘ That what the old lady witnessed was nothing more than a lovers ’ quarrel . ’ |
| 37 | In her early days as a singer she had encountered those who had wrongly assumed she was nothing more than a beautiful but empty-headed blonde . |
| 38 | She had repeatedly told herself her response to his touch was nothing more than a temporary aberration on her part , that familiarity must inevitably breed contempt , that sooner or later she would feel nothing more than irritation . |
| 39 | In a statement confirming the party 's refusal to meet the American delegation , Ian Paisley Jnr was quick to claim that Mr Morrison had been ‘ trounced ’ in a congressional election and was nothing more than a ‘ trouble-maker ’ . |
| 40 | Then they turn against the Prime Minister with a viciousness and a bitterness that suggests that previous talk of unity was nothing more than a charade . |
| 41 | In an outspoken attack in the News of the World , the 54-year-old condemned his religious upbringing as ‘ brainwashing ’ and claimed : ‘ Jesus was nothing more than a magician just like me . ’ |
| 42 | It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front . |
| 43 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
| 44 | She was something more than a housekeeper , more also than a nurse . |
| 45 | Photography is 80 per cent casting , and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face . |
| 46 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
| 47 | It appeared as if there was something more than a cupboard there . |
| 48 | The next chapter examines the governmental context of Charles 's fiscal and monetary methods : his imitation of late-Roman emperors was something more than a charade or a figleaf for impotence . |
| 49 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 50 | If this was anything more than a straightforward clerical error — the only parallel case being Robert Harold of Hungerford , who was stated to own a copyhold worth 8s. — it poses the question , was customary land ever assessed , whether by accident or design ? |
| 51 | For while the health and safety , and the prospective redundancy of its members , are the union 's business as of generally recognised right it is by no means clear that an industrial strategy that was anything more than a slogan would be . |
| 52 | Here , too , the Hammonds were concerned to dismiss suggestions that Luddism was anything more than a despairing form of industrial protest without any real degree of political revolutionary intent . |