Example sentences of "nothing [adj] [conj] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing nicer than an evening hack after a day in the office , and even if you prefer riding earlier , the extra hour of daylight somehow seems to lift the spirits . |
| 2 | The archbishop of 1101 , with a clear command which required his obedience , was a different man from the Anselm of 1097 who asked for nothing better than an opportunity for escape . |
| 3 | It was against this sort of thing — the view that chapel attendance was nothing more than an opportunity to sit , to listen and , in part , to worship the preacher — that many Nonconformists reacted . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Parents see relationships as the most important aspect of primary schooling and marketing has much to do with relationships , it simply starts with nothing more than an insistence on common courtesy — or is it more like uncommon courtesy ? |
| 6 | The author becomes nothing more than an expert at his job , a craftsman , and the means whereby literature develops in a more or less autonomous way . |
| 7 | A ‘ backwards ’ proton is in fact nothing more than an antiproton : what the experimenters at CERN look for is a proton ( rather than a neutron ) meeting an antiproton to produce a W particle which then decays to an electron and a neutrino . |
| 8 | The first stage however remains nothing more than an extrapolation from the overall pattern of evolution Morgan believed he had discovered . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was felt that the state does not want to protect people and the legislation was nothing more than an exercise in buying time ( something that the people of West Belfast have n't got ) . |
| 11 | Realising that Macleod had perceived him clearly , Boswell introduces a short apologia pro vita sua , ‘ a short defence of that propensity in my disposition ’ , in which he justifies his pursuit of the great and famous as ‘ nothing more than an eagerness to share the society of men distinguished either by their rank or talents ’ , and calls it a search for knowledge . |
| 12 | Robin Knox-Johnson has recently been honoured at the Silk Cut Awards for his seamanship in navigating his yacht Suhali one way across the Atlantic with nothing more than an astrolabe , a cross-staff and a lot of skill , and then back without a mast , engine , radio or compass after a battering in a series of storms . |
| 13 | The explosives , which were described as nothing more than an experiment , were detonated just above a dam built in January and breached last week . |
| 14 | The special nature of the facts of the case mean that it has a very narrow reading and for this reason might amount to nothing more than an amalgam of common law duties not to be dishonest . |
| 15 | ‘ The cookery book ’ Oakeshott writes , ‘ is not an independently generated beginning from which cooking can spring ; it is nothing more than an abstract of somebody 's knowledge of how to cook : it is the stepchild , not the parent of the activity . ’ |
| 16 | This is a hallowed statement signifying that the terms set out are nothing more than an intention and will not become binding on any party until a formal contract has been negotiated , executed and exchanged . |
| 17 | Seeing in black life nothing more than an answer to racism means moving on to the ideological circuit which makes us visible in two complementary roles — the problem and the victim . |
| 18 | But this measure of performance is a very narrow one and nothing more than an indication of stewardship . |
| 19 | " Who does not know " , said Alexander III in 1886 of Gorchakov 's successor , " that the pitiful Giers ( N.K. Giers , foreign minister 1881 – 94 ) is nothing more than an executor of my will ? " , while almost two decades later an even more self-effacing foreign minister had no doubt that " my duty consists in telling the emperor what I think about every question , and then when the Sovereign decides I must obey unconditionally and try to see that the Sovereign 's decision is executed " . |
| 20 | Innate robotic responses or patterns of rapid learning in animals may be nothing more than an extension of their basic instincts . |
| 21 | For example , Justice Foster said , ‘ Had the author [ of the advertisement ] wished to indicate that nothing more than an opinion was being expressed , he could have achieved this object quite simply by introducing the very same words ‘ we think ’ before the ‘ there is little evidence ’ . ’ |
| 22 | As for Genet , someone whose involvement with the different has variously been repudiated as fascist , racist , and anarchistic , his Prisoner of Love is nothing less than an affirmation of the love that Fanon envisaged and which has sometimes given the dissident their courage . |
| 23 | THE ALBUM that launched a thousand NME headlines and , more pertinently , confirmed once and for all that rap was no passing fad and was , in fact , nothing less than an art form . |
| 24 | Nastiest — ‘ There 's nothing worse than an ex-junkie . ’ |
| 25 | While this paper pretends to be nothing other than an account of an approach which is unique to the TSB , the principles described by Bruce Nichol and Tony Atkin may well be capable of transfer to other organizations in other industries . |