Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adv] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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1 | Professor Woolf argues that an older person purchasing a walking frame in order to remain on his or her feet is no less natural than a parent purchasing something similar for an infant learning to walk . |
2 | However , he is no more dangerous than a dog that barks but does not bite . |
3 | So really , this is no more wonderful than a dolphin learning its way around the complexities of its natural marine environment so that it may find — and catch — the best shoals of fish . |
4 | Some think this war is no more complicated than a Kansas City saloon brawl — that they can send the cavalry . ’ |
5 | Artists who group together for financial reasons may choose a name which is no more explanatory than a number or numbers . |
6 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |
7 | The Glasgow they evoke is a very hard and a very lively place . |