Example sentences of "[conj] no [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , a study in Hackney in 1990 of the work of mental health professionals working in a community team supporting people at home found that no less than a quarter of their working time was spent on working out welfare entitlements . |
| 2 | British officials said that no more than a quarter of the meeting had been taken up with the ‘ general issues ’ raised by the Chinese . |
| 3 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 4 | Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was going home , and home meant to him no more and no less than the room where his mother was dying . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Providing that the catfish is avoided , and no more than a total of 15 cm ( 6 in ) length fish is introduced for every 0.09 square metre ( square foot ) of the surface area of the water , excluding the marginal areas , then few problems should be encountered . |
| 11 | First a request , and no more than a request , for an amendment to the order or some sort of assurance concerning its implementation ; these tend to be few in number . |
| 12 | To the rapid , repetitive beat two glistening bodies were contorting themselves into an impossible position , their backs horizontal to the floor and no more than a foot from it . |
| 13 | Most of this level is involved in the physical functioning of our bodies — breathing , circulation , heartbeat and so on — and no more than a quarter is available for dealing with our conscious thought processes . |
| 14 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Holding high small thin green shoots thicker than a matchstick but no thicker than a pencil , he jeered at women satisfied , he said , by ‘ little boys ’ . |
| 17 | In short , public spending was to rise in real terms but no faster than the GDP . |
| 18 | After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself . |
| 19 | Once this alienation had set in , it was inevitable that , as in our day , the loved one should come to be regarded — at least by the conscious mind — as no more than a body to be disposed of as quickly and hygienically as possible . |
| 20 | So he had moved away from Jewtown to a considerably larger and more imposing semi-detached house in Blackrock — a suburb which , though no more than a mile beyond Celtic Crescent , was undeniably middle-class and rising . |
| 21 | He 'd gone when no more than a lad , |