Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] than [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |
| 2 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 3 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
| 4 | Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot . |
| 5 | In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful . |
| 6 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 7 | It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam . |
| 8 | Faith no bigger than a mustard seed . |
| 9 | Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box . |
| 10 | Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In shape no bigger than an agate stone |
| 13 | She had some olive oil ; it was in a small jar , possibly a tiny jar no larger than a perfume bottle . |
| 14 | I marvelled at it , a frog not even an inch long , no larger than a thumb nail . |
| 15 | No larger than a desk diary , the CompuAdd Companion weighs a remarkable 4.4 pounds — yet has all the performance and functionality of a full-sized 286 PC . |
| 16 | A scientist tells me : ‘ It will come in a size no larger than a Calor Gas cylinder . |
| 17 | It was a scale drawing of a miniature microphone , perfectly reproduced , which was in reality no larger than a sugar cube . |
| 18 | Communication should be mainly through the central command and control centre which may be no larger than the project leader and his small personal staff as may be a group of heads of sub-systems or both . |
| 19 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 20 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 21 | Ideally the accumulated paint layers should be no thicker than the masking tape itself . |
| 22 | Well , nowadays you could get no closer than the wire cage around the perimeter , thanks to the hippies or the busloads of Americans or druids maybe , who knew ? |
| 23 | This has the worst reputation of any ‘ creepy-crawly ’ in the public imagination , and yet its bite , which is extremely rare , is no worse than a bee sting . |
| 24 | One could fly no higher than the signal book that young Lieutenant Pasco used at Trafalgar to send up the Immortal Signal . |