Example sentences of "[been] no [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | When she 'd called him , she 'd been no closer to Vine Street than the corridor pay phone just around the corner . |
2 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
3 | Charles Williams had been a friend of T. S. Eliot , but Lewis 's distrust of Eliot had been implacable , and their first meeting in 1945 , at Williams 's instigation , had been no better than guarded , though they later joined as Anglicans in retranslating the Book of Common Prayer version of the Psalter . |
4 | The high correlation of bursts of rapid eye movements with intense dreaming tended to encourage early investigators in their impression that the eye movements were following the actions of 70–80 per cent of vivid dreams.19 However , when blind matches of EOG records with dream narratives have been made simply on the basis of written evidence and the polygraphic record , matching of reports to records has been no better than chance . |
5 | She had been no worse and no better than the three women who had preceded her in Alexandra 's life , all driven away in the end by the isolation and the powerful ghosts . |
6 | ‘ I mean — well , I 've been no worse than plenty of other guys , but anyway it 's — irrelevant now . ’ |
7 | There has been no greater continuity in the economic power of railways than in tapping minerals . |
8 | The Vascos and Fernandos had been no greater than Osvaldo . |
9 | Thorkell probably received one of Cnut 's offspring by Ælfgifu of Northampton , as Harthacnut , who can at this date have been no older than five , was present at the translation of the relics of Archbishop Ælfheah ( see below ) in June . |
10 | ‘ That 'll be nice , ’ Martha replied , as if there 'd been no earlier ruction . |
11 | Martin apologized because he had shouted at Alice in front of them all — he had been no angrier , Nick considered , than any father had a right to be — but after that , he seemed disinclined to discuss her . |
12 | However , there had been no further serious problems at the ground until Friday night 's incident . |
13 | Since 1981 there have been no further issues of SDRs because the executive board of the IMF can not provide a consensus as to the need for a further issue of SDRs . |
14 | ‘ Since you gave the strategic movement order , General Fakrid , ’ the first replied briskly , ‘ there have been no further engagements with the enemy and no further casualties . ’ |
15 | ‘ So by this time this news of yours should also have reached both Ramsey and Worcester , if there have been no further ambushes on the way , as God forbid ! |
16 | There had been no further news of Alfred since he was seen by one of the hotel staff in Lady Street at eight that morning . |
17 | Significantly , on the following day at Smithfield , after the deaths of Sudbury and Hales , there seem to have been no further demands concerning ‘ traitors ’ , but further ones about social and legal status , that there should be no lordship apart from the King 's , that the Church should be disendowed and ( cryptically ) that there should be no law except that of Winchester ( 11 , pp.161–5 ) . |
18 | Yesterday , as the group of cockle pickers went about their business , police said there had been no further incidents . |
19 | Yesterday , as the group of pickers went about their business , police said there had been no further incidents . |
20 | Darlington Council leader John Williams ( Lab ) said public transport minister Roger Freeman had pledged to meet the management of Caldaire , which owns the site in question but there had been no further word from him . |
21 | The pulse-receiver would have been no larger than a matchbox , probably receiving on something like 72.15 megahertz a signal sent from a small transmitter . |