Example sentences of "[was/were] nothing [det] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his view , the revelation of God in Jesus Christ , and the repairing and restoring of fallen human nature brought about through it , were nothing less than a miraculous new beginning , an act of creative divine power , whose discontinuity from what had preceded it was signalled by the double miracle of Jesus ' birth from a virgin and his resurrection from the grave . |
| 2 | But the sailing date kept being put back : first for lack of volunteers , then because of uncertainty about the activities of ubiquitous Francis Drake — who disliked other privateers poaching prizes he regarded as his own — and finally for a wealth of reasons so small that Ann began to suspect that they were nothing more than a smoke screen , to hide her husband 's ever-increasing infatuation with Miss Jennifer Gristy . |
| 3 | They were nothing more than a lousy bunch of down and outs , students ( same thing in my book ) , and back-packing evangelists with acne . |
| 4 | There were some complete manuscripts but there were nothing more than a collection of royal warrants written personally by King James and sealed under his signet ring , granting tasks or favours to his ‘ beloved physician , Andrew Selkirk ’ . |
| 5 | Diana was nothing more than a schoolgirl , unworldly in the extreme . |
| 6 | In reality , the basis for the prevailing sense of optimism was nothing more than a sense that , with hostilities now ended , everyone could get back to business as usual . |
| 7 | To Michael Powell documentary was nothing more than a refuge for ‘ disappointed feature filmmakers or out-of-work poets ’ , but the wartime films he made within an immensely fruitful collaboration ( the Archers ) with the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger , with the two of them sharing credits for production , direction and screenwriting , take on documentary concerns in ways which indicate that the absorption of the documentary filmmakers into commercial filmmaking was only an incidental part of a process with roots deep in wartime culture . |
| 8 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 9 | Which was nothing more than a sideways stab at NME hipness coupled with a nod towards the absurd fitness fad . |
| 10 | One complainant wrote to say that this milestone in the study of human sexuality was nothing more than a complete waste of time and simply confirmed the writer 's conviction that ‘ the male population is a herd of prancing , leering goats ’ . |
| 11 | His hand was still firm on her shoulder and the contact changed from pleasure to a feeling she was nothing more than a possession . |
| 12 | Mitchell then forwarded to Cameron in Dar es Salaam a quite unrecognizable version of the Murrells scheme which was nothing more than a vastly elaborated edition of the existing system of administration through the laibon and laigwenak . |
| 13 | I ca n't remember who it was who said that a squirrel was nothing more than a rat with good PR but how right they were ! |
| 14 | Suppose he discovered that my new slimline look was nothing more than a £19.99 Playtex Secrets girdle purchased in October ? |
| 15 | ‘ It was nothing more than a tap in , ’ he added . |
| 16 | The immediate reaction was that the discovery of Pluto was nothing more than a small-scale diversion : there must be a tenth planet out there , and a very large planet at that . |
| 17 | They were usually minor KGB agents , and the two-thousand-dollar charge was nothing more than a way of increasing the Soviet Union 's foreign exchange . |
| 18 | There was also the possibility that Myeloski was wrong , that it was nothing more than a string of coincidences . |
| 19 | The promotion was nothing more than a device to give Richard Sharpe some status on the Prince of Orange 's staff , but so far as Sharpe himself was concerned he was still a Rifleman . |
| 20 | Lucille 's home was very grandly called a château , though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm with a crenellated tower to remind passers-by that the building had once been a small fortress . |
| 21 | It was said of Comte that ‘ the woman he chose as his wife was nothing more than a means for the immediate gratification of his crude sexuality ’ . |
| 22 | Thus , between 1744 and 1767 , Hermann Samuel Reimarus , a professor at Hamburg , had argued that Jesus was nothing more than a failed Judaic revolutionary whose body was removed from its tomb by his disciples . |
| 23 | Strictly speaking , the king was nothing more than a servant , a vessel , a vehicle , through which the divine will manifested itself . |
| 24 | It was generally felt that the legislation was nothing more than a publicity exercise , carried out under severe pressure from the USA and the Free State government . |
| 25 | In truth the TV realisation of Poet 's Corner , Westminster Abbey was nothing more than a photographic blow-up , and the monster just the latex-coated hands of writer Nigel Kneale sticking out through a hole in the picture . |
| 26 | Implexion was sure she was nothing more than a spoiled and pampered daughter of a rich house , as ill-prepared for privation as it was possible to be . |
| 27 | As far as he was concerned she was nothing more than a time-and-labour-saving device required for the voyage . |
| 28 | A sense of detachment might produce a sharper view , but he felt unreal , as if the scene he was viewing was nothing more than a backdrop at a theatre which might roll itself up and disappear when the present act was over . |
| 29 | Why did she let herself feel so safe with him , when to him she was nothing more than a hot-tempered child with a woman 's body ? |
| 30 | The room was nothing more than a dry , musty cell . |