Example sentences of "had [been] [art] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not occurred to us that this ranging survey of the idioms of English and incidentally French verse had been no more than a ‘ prologue ’ — and to what , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 2 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 3 | I had convinced myself that the massage had been no more than superficial . |
| 4 | But there had been no more children , and now Cousin Charlie would inherit . |
| 5 | Others interested in this Ocean may have already found their choicest figures : the one that brought the Pacific 's surge so very much alive for me — when hitherto it had been no more than the muffled beatings of a warm , blue and very distant sea — related to an event seven miles above the surface of the earth , some time during a night in 1984 . |
| 6 | When she 'd moved in , it had been no more than a yard full of builders ' rubbish . |
| 7 | Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him . |
| 8 | But support had been no more than patchy until it was taken up by such a strong party group on the eve of electoral victory . |
| 9 | This done it soon became clear that Clairvaux had been no more than a pretext and that the real problems lay elsewhere . |
| 10 | No , Stephanie thought later , it had been no more and no less than could have been hoped : a reasonable coming together of people close to each other , not by choice , reluctant in many cases . |
| 11 | Burun guessed that Kiku had been no more than a hair's-breadth away from being impaled on the st'lyan 's gilden horn . |
| 12 | There had been no more calls since the informant had rung with the news of the cocaine shipment . |
| 13 | He 'd looked , but most of the items on the Dexion shelving in the anteroom had been no more than shapes under canvas sheets . |
| 14 | She 'd called Julie that morning to make sure she was all right , and that there had been no more trouble . |
| 15 | In his last memoirs , written in his second exile , he wrote that before 1953 , " I had been no more than a hereditary sovereign , but now I had truly been elected by the people . |
| 16 | There had been no more dreams . |
| 17 | Perhaps Piers had been no more than a struggling architect when they had first met , and she had not been content to lead a life of poverty . |
| 18 | For that , she was entirely to blame , and his reaction to the discovery that beneath the hard shell of assumed glamour there lurked a conventional nature had been no more than she deserved . |
| 19 | There had been no more news about the murder inquiry by the time Loretta arrived at her office on Monday morning . |
| 20 | To begin with , only the coincidence of the deaths of father and son within four days of each other ; beyond that his notion of a connection had been no more than a hunch , and he had been in the business too long to back his hunches far ahead of evidence . |
| 21 | Subsequently what had been no more than a name implying a certain diplomatic affiliation between the Franks and Valentinian must have been interpreted as providing a genuine indication of the origins of the Franks . |
| 22 | The US ambassador , who had marvelled at the readiness of the British to hazard so much in company with France ( a nation which they were in the habit of disparaging ) , now saw that this had been no more than a passing flirtation . |
| 23 | To Willi and Gerda she had been no more than a romantic inspiration , a cardboard figure of tinsel who ceased to exist when the curtain came down . |
| 24 | If she felt hurt at the realisation that his affectionate gestures had been no more than a front — well , it could only be because her ego was wounded . |
| 25 | For her , their lovemaking might have been an almost mystical fusing of bodies and identities , yet for him it had been no more than a roll in the hay . |