Example sentences of "[art] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , looking back , Sara knew that if she were asked she would put a circle round this evening , this particular point in time , and say , " That 's when the heartache began , " a tiny little pain to begin with , no more than a tremor of consciousness , the veriest pinprick . |
| 2 | In 1791 the Windsor theatre , then no more than a shed in a muddy field , was bought from Francis Waldron [ q.v. ] , writer and actor . |
| 3 | A stone rolled free and splashed into the water no more than a yard from Trent 's feet . |
| 4 | When she 'd moved in , it had been no more than a yard full of builders ' rubbish . |
| 5 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 6 | In some sense this is no more than a public relations exercise , albeit a difficult one . |
| 7 | Self-defence of this kind may be no more than a threat , as in the case of the inflated toad , standing high on its legs when confronted by a grass snake ( above ) , or the frilled lizard ( right ) which erects a huge umbrella of skin around its gaping jaws . |
| 8 | I daresay it 's no more than a chill . |
| 9 | After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself . |
| 10 | Indeed , we must suspect that under the interests theory the criterion of personal responsibility is no more than a function of social policy : the more highly the interest is regarded , the closer we are drawn towards unlimited personal responsibility . |
| 11 | Egoism , then , is no more than a terminus towards which interacting individuals are pushed by competition . |
| 12 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 13 | In many cases the accompaniment may be no more than a doubling of the melody ( at the unison or octave , or even in the bass ) with added chordal harmony . |
| 14 | Although urinary incontinence may be no more than a nuisance in some women , for many it is far more troublesome . |
| 15 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 16 | Any non-party candidate will have a very small chance of being elected and if , surprisingly , he is elected , he will have no more than a minute chance of exercising significant influence in the House . |
| 17 | The death sentences were commuted at the end of 1849 , but only when the prisoners had arrived at the place of execution and been led to believe , as Dostoevsky put it , that they " had no more than a minute left to live " . |
| 18 | She likes it here but that place she 's got is no more than a hole in the wall . |
| 19 | The simplest home of all , of course , is no more than a hole . |
| 20 | For some this means no more than a trip to the supermarket and a loading-up of the metal basket ; for others it means being lost on a plain in Greece , in the dark , in snow , in the rain , and finding what you seek only by some rare trick such as barking like a dog . |
| 21 | And within was empty darkness , fenced off by no more than a ridge of soil . |
| 22 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 23 | Some local people also work close to the church , daily setting out their stalls of fruit , vegetables or fish in the narrow alleyways , the vicoli , which spread out from the tiny square , no more than a broadening of the road really , before the church . |
| 24 | Growing in a neat upright habit no more than a metre or so across and two metres high at maturity , ‘ Yellow Hammer ’ produces a magnificent spring display of butter yellow , narrowly tubular flowers . |
| 25 | My argument was that he might as well use pit-props for his fishing , for he could n't possibly gain any enjoyment from playing fish , or handling such a rod with no more than a 4lb line . |
| 26 | Modern scientific man thinks that he is no more than a chance arrangement of dust and water , of molecules — though he may acknowledge that the atoms and molecules , indeed all life forms , are highly ordered and organized ! |
| 27 | You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most . |
| 28 | The Emperor is no more than a boy . |
| 29 | The likeness was there , Master Harry 's divination had been marvellously guided ; but he had carved a man , and this , after all , was no more than a boy , not yet grown . |
| 30 | Maria Magdalena and Caribbean Queen cleared Key Canaka thirty metres apart with no more than a bowsprit between them . |