Example sentences of "is nothing more [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is very interesting , ’ she said , ‘ but I 'm afraid that it is nothing more than a performance . |
| 2 | If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ . |
| 3 | The Jew is nothing more than a popular villain ( bear in mind that Marlowe had just had a success with The Jew Of Malta ) . |
| 4 | Perhaps the manifest intrinsic contusions which surface in each of the foregoing theories are enough to write them oft , and to show how the same/different metaphysic is nothing more than a potently confused , highly discriminating mixed metaphor . |
| 5 | Multimedia education is nothing more than a new version of a teaching machine , albeit with real-time video , and teaching machines do n't work . |
| 6 | Just when we 're strapped for cash , only a load of new clothes can save us from looking dowdy — you would n't be alone in thinking that the whole thing is nothing more than a brilliant wheeze dreamt up by the fashion industry whenever times get tough . |
| 7 | The fact that you report through him is nothing more than a formula to save his face . |
| 8 | I trust that this is nothing more than a proofreading error . |
| 9 | The right of assembling is nothing more than a result of the view taken by the courts as to individual liberty of person and individual liberty of speech . |
| 10 | The right of assembly , as Professor Dicey puts it , is nothing more than a view taken by the court of the individual liberty of the subject . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Indeed , so Sir Karl assures us , Science really is nothing more than a continuous abandonment of ideas shown by objective , scientific inquiry , to be untenable . |
| 13 | There are those who remain unconvinced of the benefits of a good environmental audit , arguing that the process is nothing more than a shallow , expensive public relations exercise . |
| 14 | ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’ |
| 15 | Yet those who know Diana know this is nothing more than a working business arrangement . |
| 16 | When people first encounter it their normal assumption is that an alternate universe is nothing more than a ‘ what might have been ’ ; science-fiction writers have toyed with that idea for decades . |
| 17 | The table is nothing more than a rough guide , not an order of merit . |
| 18 | Despite the suspicions the adventurers will surely have , this is nothing more than a standard mirror with no magical properties whatsoever — unless you decide to add some , of course . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Wood 's principles are those of Loudon more than three decades later : ‘ a palace is nothing more than a cottage IMPROVED ’ , he wrote . |
| 21 | This is nothing more than a deaggregation of larger line items . |
| 22 | To oppose them is a patriotic act ; their own use of national flags and symbols is nothing more than a sham masking their terroristic inclinations . |
| 23 | It is like pedigree dogs — a pedigree is special but a cross-breed is nothing more than a mongrel . |
| 24 | Too many people believe football is nothing more than a game , but you and I know it to be so much more . |
| 25 | " It could n't happen to me and , even if it does , we have all got to die sometime " is a common self-justification that almost belies belief when it is considered that a life threatening " pleasure " is nothing more than a mere cigarette . |
| 26 | A good picture is nothing more than a perfect equilibrium , that is to say a balance of weights and a harmony of numbers . |
| 27 | The right of assembly , as PROFESSOR DICEY puts it ( LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION ( 8TH Edn. ) p. 499 ) , is nothing more than a view taken by the courts of individual liberty of speech . |
| 28 | Thus , it is nothing more than a clearing house which does nothing in its own right . |
| 29 | The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is nothing more than a rather larger Americanised version of Wookey Hole in Somerset or the Dan-yr-Ogof caves in South Wales . |
| 30 | So we may come to the third proposition of this book : THE SEDIMENTARY PILE AT ANY ONE PLACE ON THE EARTH 'S SURFACE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TINY AND FRAGMENTARY RECORD OF VAST PERIODS OF EARTH HISTORY . |