Example sentences of "[conj] no [adj] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But if they would work no more and no faster than the job required , they would work no slower and no less : nobody had to give them a special incentive to give of their best . |
2 | He was going home , and home meant to him no more and no less than the room where his mother was dying . |
3 | Restating those views in summary form , in a case where the necessity to require a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) arises for one of the reasons specified in section 7(3) , what is required is no more and no less than the formula used in the instant case or words to the like effect . |
4 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
5 | From the explosive and detonator , a wire ran round the belt to the side , where it connected with a lithium battery similar to and no larger than the sort used to power digital watches . |
6 | The following succession of chords necessitates a change from A to A ♯ and no more if the harp is set to the notes D , E ♯ , F ♯ , G ♯ , A , B ♯ , C ♯ , for they are then written thus : |
7 | An odd proposal , but no odder than the belief sustained for 40 years that the Kuomintang would return to Beijing to rule all of China . |
8 | In short , public spending was to rise in real terms but no faster than the GDP . |