Example sentences of "as no more than an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Kim Dae Jung had accused Roh of staging a constitutional coup by his merger with the opposition , and had characterized the DLP as no more than an attempt to provide a form of constitutional legitimacy for the government 's increasing authoritarianism . |
| 8 | The materials illustrated in the appendix to this chapter are offered as no more than an example . |