Example sentences of "nothing [adj -er] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season , with its pylons marching up a scarred , broken hillside . |
| 2 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 3 | One walks between the banks that show where the houses stood , marking how blocks of squared masonry thrust in one place out of the turf ( a more important building than most of them ) , and how the tree-roots twist among the rubble footings of the peasant dwellings ; and one picks up pieces of twelfth- and thirteenth-century pottery — mere sherds , bits of rim , of sides , of bases , but all datable : nothing later than the Black Death , when the great silence descended . |
| 4 | The displays demonstrate the reality , provide live plants to look at , and assure us that nothing larger than an unfortunate lizard or rat makes it into the green traps . |
| 5 | Li'l Abner — without the colour of the comic strip in the Sunday paper — seemed bogus , and bogus hillbilly at that ; but David and Earl , both schooled in the macho preference for raucous art , liked nothing better than a bogus barnyard . |
| 6 | He enjoys the company of others , likes nothing better than a good dinner surrounded by friends , and large noisy get-togethers with his family . |
| 7 | Poor boy , he had found nothing better than a dirty corner next to a lavatory ! |
| 8 | When Wales lost to Bridgend 10 days ago , home supporters , who would now like nothing better than a Test-match miracle at the Arms Park on 4 November , taunted the beaten team with chants of ‘ Easy ’ . |
| 9 | Nothing better than a smoothed way through Customs and Immigration , and ready transportation for the trip into a new city . |
| 10 | THEY were a typical Seventies university football team — boozy , rowdy , long-haired fun-lovers who liked nothing better than a riotous party . |
| 11 | They seem to assume that because my act is a bit obscene , I 'll like nothing better than a bigoted belly-laugh . |
| 12 | But then there was the question of replacing Susy , without James running himself ragged with the thousand-and-one chicks who wanted nothing better than a quick hop in the bed with a world star . |
| 13 | Cue for a queen : Spanish-born Fabiola of Belgium likes nothing better than a quiet game of billiards at home |
| 14 | The point we sought to make , Mr Smith , was that it was ludicrous to assume — as Ford has — that millions of people aspire to nothing better than an average car , and to note that the master marketeers will probably get away with peddling mediocrity yet again . |
| 15 | There is nothing worse than a shy ferret . |
| 16 | Air bricks , extractor fans , open fires and dehumidifiers all help , but often you have to learn to live with it — and there is nothing worse than a new house which was built in wet conditions . |
| 17 | Truly , there is nothing worse than a world-weary hippie , and nothing more strictly self-superior than the elders of the benevolent-beat-bohemian class . |
| 18 | There is nothing worse than a bendy sea boat . |
| 19 | Take your seats ; there 's nothing worse than a cold dinner . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm the conman , ’ he replied , and that humiliation by Barnsley instantly began to feel like nothing worse than a bad dream . |
| 21 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |
| 22 | However romantically ill John might look , it seemed , that he had nothing worse than an unromantic cold . |
| 23 | But there 's nothing worse than an old fool . ’ |
| 24 | There 's nothing worse than the straight man who shouts it from the rooftop . ’ |