Example sentences of "[noun] be [art] [adj -er] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom . |
| 2 | The digital AC motor speed controller is no bigger than a filofax . |
| 3 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 4 | When the first CPR train reached Vancouver on 23 May 1888 , the depot on the waterfront was no larger than a wooden shed . |
| 5 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 6 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 7 | Little Billy could see this clearly despite the fact that the whole of the tiny man 's head was no larger than a pea . |
| 8 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 9 | There was Mrs Moore , the dentist 's wife , mother of his friend who had committed suicide because life did not seem worth living ; and there was Mary Johnson 's mother looking as prim as a prune , not knowing that her daughter was no better than a streetwalker . |
| 10 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 11 | The AP1-88 is only as noisy as a major road at a distance of 100 m to 200 m , and at I km is no noisier than a quiet residential area . |
| 12 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 13 | Thereafter each quite expensive ball-cum-transmitter was no better than a simple ball . |
| 14 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |