Example sentences of "be no [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall aim is to improve the education and training environment so that a teacher/student ratio of 1:12 will be realised , and that ‘ the facilities available for education and training should be no less than the best provided in higher education establishment ’ . |
| 2 | When the codes of practice were revised recently in response to strong pressure from the police , the guidance was made slightly less restrictive by removing the statement that reasonable suspicion should be no less than the suspicion required to effect arrest without warrant . |
| 3 | The risk-graded investment — be it under Scottish Mutual 's calculations or the statistical tools used by other unit trust managers — can be no more than a guide . |
| 4 | ‘ Rational animal ’ had been suggested as a definition of the ‘ nature ’ of man ; but this appears to be no more than a specification of some of his properties . |
| 5 | But now , here , this morning , in this pokey little office in Queen Anne 's Gate , spring in the air in St James 's Park outside his windows , the sound of military music drifting across from Buckingham Palace as the guards marched — all the elements of human and political drama so clear in his mind — Mick wondered whether it really was his destiny to be no more than a player : just another player . |
| 6 | Edward Pilkington writing in the Guardian later commented , ‘ What at first glance appears to be no more than a simple case of human error becomes , at closer examination , as much a story about bungling management and an inadequate safety system born of years of cuts . |
| 7 | In one sense , offering insurance in this way may be no more than a marketing device and the whole deal is a matter for the commercial judgement of the firm involved — and their clients . |
| 8 | Pleasure can be no more than a gourmet 's appreciation for delicacies , whereas a happy person can readily settle for a much simpler diet . |
| 9 | This , when I first saw it , seemed to be no more than a pleasant crater , but later explorations by experts have classed it as one of the most severe in the district . |
| 10 | The Land Rover had originally been meant to be no more than a safety net . |
| 11 | Self-defence of this kind may be no more than a threat , as in the case of the inflated toad , standing high on its legs when confronted by a grass snake ( above ) , or the frilled lizard ( right ) which erects a huge umbrella of skin around its gaping jaws . |
| 12 | There is another function of playing dead that has been depicted for centuries but which , until recently , was thought to be no more than a fictitious folk-tale . |
| 13 | It hardly matters what you are angry about , so long as you convey clearly the message that you are on the point of a serious psychotic meltdown and anyone getting in your way is liable to be no more than a bag of pimply skin and bone shards lying in a pool of blood within seconds . |
| 14 | Endearing as this is , it can be no more than a futile gesture , since any seasoned thriller addict will immediately finger the culprit the second she walks into frame . |
| 15 | If so , it would seem to be no more than a logically disreputable form of reasoning to which I have to resort until the scientific study of behaviour puts more rigorous methods at my disposal . |
| 16 | A dozen flying machines and their pilots would be no more than a blip on a piece of magnetic tape . |
| 17 | Therefore it was Adam 's duty to come home and face the music , even though this might be no more than a short blast on a tin whistle . |
| 18 | Assessment would be no more than a subjective judgement of how well the student could perform specific DTP tasks . |
| 19 | But the game 's top men are hoping they can devise a constructive plan for improvement so that the awfulness of the past few seasons might soon be no more than a bad dream . |
| 20 | A dogma that once looked profound had been shown to be no more than a simplistic diagram ; and social reality is too complex , in the end , to be embraced by any single theory of history or of class . |
| 21 | What I am speculating — and it can be no more than a retrospective speculation based on reports from sportsmen themselves — is that black parents were too preoccupied with maintaining a material existence to attend to sport : they were too busy making ends meet . |
| 22 | The journalism of ‘ neutrality ’ may therefore be no more than a reflection , and an acknowledgement , of the arrival of a new political force in Britain and a response to the existence of a market as evidenced by the SDP 's success in the political and electoral arena . |
| 23 | Similarly , in twenty years ' time , the threat of the new media may prove to be no more than a means for liberating the viewer from the duopoly 's straightjacket . |
| 24 | This immediately triggered talk about a triple ( or is it a quadruple ? ) dip , but many economists believe it will prove to be no more than a stutter . |
| 25 | But this sudden quiet is likely to be no more than a brief lull . |
| 26 | On the other hand , for Tiny Rowland of the conglomerate Lonrho , and for the Atlantic Richfield Oil Company of California , his pre-decessor as owners of The Observer , the control of a national paper might be no more than a useful form of corporate public relations and personal prestige . |
| 27 | This chapter can be no more than a combination of large generalizations and small examples , maybe unrepresentative . |
| 28 | Rationality turns into narrow intellectualism , freedom into licence , independence into isolationism , dignity into selfish pride ; the autonomous human being turns out to be no more than a social atom after all . |
| 29 | The remark could be no more than a pious platitude , but the context allows a more specific reading : that the council had agreed to accept the nominal rule of the young king . |
| 30 | Saving on housing is more than often , very unwise , when depreciated over a period of 10 years , the extra cost may be no more than a few eggs per bird extra . |