Example sentences of "be [indef pn] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 2 | Such a government , he argues , perpetually teetering on the brink of defeat and another election , would be nothing more than a lame duck . |
| 3 | This ‘ outsider ’ stance is , of course , nothing new , and if it bore the bulk of the band 's appeal , would be nothing more than a gimmick in itself . |
| 4 | Innate robotic responses or patterns of rapid learning in animals may be nothing more than an extension of their basic instincts . |
| 5 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 6 | This would be nothing more than an admission of the truth as it actually is , and would thereby be an important refutation of ‘ god-given ’ rights . |
| 7 | Add in Edith Cresson 's political affiliation , plus her deserved reputation for dirigisme , and the freshly coined sobriquet ‘ Edithatcher ’ seems to be nothing more than a phrase-monger 's fancy . |
| 8 | Their meeting will probably be nothing more than a courteous request from your boyfriend for your parents ' blessing and approval and it should get their relationship off to a good start ! |
| 9 | To her it may seem that not only was she robbed of happiness during her marriage , but that she is now also being denied the right to grieve as well , for there will be those who will be expecting her mourning to be nothing more than a brief bow to convention , followed by a fairly speedy rise in spirits and return to normality . |
| 10 | Sometimes younger people consider this to be nothing more than morbid indulgence , and refuse to listen , mainly because it is a subject they do not care to think about . |
| 11 | To her , language seemed to be nothing more than a means of discovering the price of butter or exchanging views about the weather . |
| 12 | It turned out to be nothing more than a charter for busybodies , lacking muscle and new money . |
| 13 | I do n't want to depress anyone , but might these latest ‘ green shoots ’ in the economy be nothing more than the bedecked branches of Christmas trees ? |
| 14 | Apart from George Rodney with his distinctive male top-knot , the head-dress of the other five appears to be nothing more than the broad folds of the linen winding-sheet . |
| 15 | Buddhists of the Northern school of China and Japan evolved their own theory of grace and came to believe in the Buddha as a Saviour , though in the earliest Scriptures he himself claimed to be nothing more than a teacher , a shower of the way . |
| 16 | In fact , the atom is nothing like this ( for example , electrons are likely to be nothing more than ‘ confluences of probability waves ’ — in other words , totally incomprehensible in everyday terms ) , yet what do you think of when you think of an atom ? |
| 17 | For both of these reasons , fluorine-oriented life seems to be nothing more than a theoretical fancy . |
| 18 | A major reason for this unconcern is that various fraudsters who have operated in the field have given ESP a bad name : underfunded scientists have far better things to investigate than a phenomenon which seems , on the basis of the available evidence , to be nothing more than a farrago . |
| 19 | It appears to be nothing more than a large cuckoo clock , with a single hand . |
| 20 | Some have been toppled , and some are so eroded that they appear to be nothing more than wind-scoured boulders . |
| 21 | This , however , is said to be nothing more than a scantily concealed voluntarism . |
| 22 | Similarly , the Britons Society and Publishing Company appeared to be nothing more than a minuscule middle-class organization with a bee in its bonnet about Jews . |
| 23 | It has proved , at the first time of asking in Test cricket , to be nothing more than a wrist-slapper . |
| 24 | Might South Africa 's continuing claims to the next World Cup be nothing more than a clever cover ? |
| 25 | There are all sorts of reasons why one should not readily excuse such cruel behaviour , but Basil Henriques considered the crime to be nothing more than a boyish prank . |
| 26 | " Might it be nothing more than a girl ? " |
| 27 | She crossed to Patrick 's bed and rested her hand on his forehead ; it felt hot and his cheeks were certainly flushed — but perhaps that might be nothing more than the heat in the room . |
| 28 | It could be nothing more than a speculation , since at that point levels of attainment had no meaning other than their definition in the Report . |
| 29 | The father 's solicitors appear to have thought perhaps otherwise and that the hearing on 27 January would be nothing more than a formality . |
| 30 | In this sense , a ’ name ’ may be nothing more than an address in a computer 's memory , such as a pointer in a Pascal data structure . |