Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj -er] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 2 | By 1948 , although living standards in general were no higher than a decade previously , the average domestic consumer was using twice as much electricity as then , but paying only half as much for it per kWh in real terms . |
| 3 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 4 | Equally , a feminist who left a meeting , went home and jumped into bed with hubbie or boyfriend , was no better than a member of the fifth column . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 7 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 8 | Burun cursed , and Rostov saw that the straw circle had been moved back and turned sideways so that it was no wider than a man 's forearm . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the smallest dinosaur known — of the type that were probably the immediate ancestors of modern birds — was no bigger than a mistlethrush weighing only a few grammes . |
| 10 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 11 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 12 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 13 | Little Billy could see this clearly despite the fact that the whole of the tiny man 's head was no larger than a pea . |
| 14 | Smaller she grew , and smaller yet , till she was no larger than a monkey . |