Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's nothing more than a double-cross , really . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's nothing more than a teenager ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's nothing more than a crowd of women having a cup of tea . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's nothing less than a murderer . |
| 5 | Additionally , a more complete picture of the settlement at Cosmeston is accessible to the public by virtue of the way the excavations have been interpreted and presented for the visitor : the ultimate goal is nothing less than a full-scale , working reconstruction of the medieval village . |
| 6 | It is nothing less than a national scandal that such despicable practices can take place in 1894 ! ’ |
| 7 | An absolutely blatant digression , it is nothing less than a lecture on the whole idea of locked rooms . |
| 8 | Short-term pain for long-term gain — or in his words , ‘ this is nothing less than a call to arms , to restore the vitality of the American dream ’ . |
| 9 | This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said . |
| 10 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 11 | But the play also acknowledges quite clearly that what is at stake is nothing less than the legitimacy of the whole social order , hinging as it does on a ‘ naturally ’ sanctioned law of sexual difference . |
| 12 | Squatting is nothing less than the seizure of another 's property without consent . |
| 13 | The development of creativity is nothing less than the stocking of the mind with innumerable images and allowing the mixture to work as in fermentation to produce its astonishing results . |
| 14 | The renewed mind is nothing less than the mind of Christ in the believer , a mind so under his authority that its presuppositions are entirely influenced and informed by the truth of God . |
| 15 | It is nothing less than the crisis of humanism as a religion being played out in economic life . |
| 16 | It is nothing less than the invocation of a two-language model of social scientific inquiry : that of theory and that of research ; that of concepts and that of variables . |
| 17 | ‘ I believe that what we have heard and seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . ’ |
| 18 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 19 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ This is very interesting , ’ she said , ‘ but I 'm afraid that it is nothing more than a performance . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | The Jew is nothing more than a popular villain ( bear in mind that Marlowe had just had a success with The Jew Of Malta ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The fact that you report through him is nothing more than a formula to save his face . |
| 28 | I trust that this is nothing more than a proofreading error . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |