Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [adj -er] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover . |
| 2 | Not many years ago , it seemed that almost all readability research , and almost all research in linguistics confined itself to the analysis of units no larger than a sentence . |
| 3 | Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box . |
| 4 | Having finished his dinner the candidate retired to the spick and span little room no bigger than a cubbyhole they had placed at his disposal and , when he had put his thoughts and his speeches in good order , stepped out for a breath of air , a short stroll which led him — as he had known it would — to the newly painted door of Odette Adeane . |
| 5 | Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit . |
| 6 | She had some olive oil ; it was in a small jar , possibly a tiny jar no larger than a perfume bottle . |
| 7 | Faith no bigger than a mustard seed . |
| 8 | A tiny black wallet no bigger than a child 's hand . |
| 9 | It is also very preparation for climbing , since balance and swing are crucial , especially when you have to swing up six feet and balance on a ledge no wider than a fingernail … . and as for amateur dramatics — you should see some of our training sessions ! |
| 10 | A scientist tells me : ‘ It will come in a size no larger than a Calor Gas cylinder . |
| 11 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 12 | In time , a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand produced a thunderstorm . |
| 13 | In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful . |
| 14 | To make sure , he altered his usual route , ducking down alleys no wider than a donkey 's girth , slipping across little squares where five ways met . |
| 15 | Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot . |
| 16 | It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam . |
| 17 | It was a scale drawing of a miniature microphone , perfectly reproduced , which was in reality no larger than a sugar cube . |
| 18 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |
| 19 | They were all eating miniature versions of proper food — a sliver of lamb like a lark 's tongue , a single braised spinach leaf , a mushroom tart no bigger than a cuff-link — like guests in a doll 's house , and trying to ignore the fact that the area around their table , which might have provided space for twelve to stand at a pinch , had now about 300 people in it . |