Example sentences of "nothing [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 32 | For example , the ‘ village community ’ can signify nothing more than a type of settlement — a small number of people living together in a rural location usually in a nucleated pattern . |
| 33 | Until Silas came it was nothing more than a wilderness . ’ |
| 34 | Wood 's principles are those of Loudon more than three decades later : ‘ a palace is nothing more than a cottage IMPROVED ’ , he wrote . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | This view has long been linked with those who have argued that the company should not be specially regulated by the state since it owed its existence to nothing more than a contract between individual property owners . |
| 37 | A call of nature interrupted my pleasure and I went out to the necessary house behind the tavern , nothing more than a hole in the ground enclosed by a shabby wooden palisade and a door which bolted from the inside . |
| 38 | Quite a few people argue that managed competition is nothing more than a compromise , cobbled together to make sure that the mighty insurers and high-tech hospitals stay in business . |
| 39 | " Might it be nothing more than a girl ? " |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | If life is nothing more than a moving from one activity to the next it is not surprising if we become restless , cluttered and superficial . |
| 42 | Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer . |
| 43 | I enjoy living in the countryside and like nothing more than a stroll through the villages . |
| 44 | Now , if the phrase heavy rock means nothing more than a pile of boulders , then you may fear that what follows is not your cup of tea . |
| 45 | She had allowed him to entice her into what was , to him , nothing more than a seduction scene , where she had been primed and ripe for the taking . |
| 46 | Dickins had had nothing more than a back pass and a free-kick to deal with in the first 30 minutes but showed signs of nervousness when Bull challenged for a Birch free-kick . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | His forecast for 1985 in the NME led to nothing more than a throwaway : ‘ Disability chic will reign rampantly in 1985 . |
| 49 | ‘ It is a single , rather flippant sentence in a book of 100,000 words — nothing more than a throwaway line . ’ |
| 50 | At the height of all the media fuss over a comic creation which was basically nothing more than a walking catch-phrase , it seemed as if Enfield 's career was in danger of burning out before it had properly ignited . |
| 51 | A year ago , Selina 's two-hour session of candlelit fund-raising would have gained her nothing more than a clout round the ear ( I 'd have done it nice , mind you , not in the restaurant or anything like that but in the Fiasco or back at the sock ) . |
| 52 | In an outspoken attack in the News of the World , the 54-year-old condemned his religious upbringing as ‘ brainwashing ’ and claimed : ‘ Jesus was nothing more than a magician just like me . ’ |
| 53 | It has proved , at the first time of asking in Test cricket , to be nothing more than a wrist-slapper . |
| 54 | The opposition though feels nothing more than a tickle with a feather boa , obviously a pink one . |
| 55 | ‘ It was nothing more than a tap in , ’ he added . |
| 56 | The slenderest patients , those whose faces are nothing more than a triangle of bone around the eyes , they 're Musselmänner : not , as I first thought , as an ironical glance at musclemen . |
| 57 | Then , he had been quite amused and content to joke about being nothing more than a flower bearer , but he was not so happy when it became a regular occurrence . |
| 58 | I defy anyone to enter upon altered states of reality with nothing more than a bottle of Trumper 's shampoo and an almost-empty tube of Guerlain 's Habit Rouge face balm . |
| 59 | Normally , if you want nothing more than a passage anchorage , Dale , down near the entrance , will serve very well , but we felt Neyland merited a first visit , and thanks to going there we had this early morning enchantment of seeing ships , great and small , going about their work . |
| 60 | 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 . |