Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attacks to the abdomen must be no lower than the bottom edge of the belt . |
| 2 | The surgeons had to join blood vessels of only two millimetres in diameter and use suturing materials no broader than a human hair . |
| 3 | Her fluency resulted in almost 100 books ; Flaubert 's entire output fits one volume no fatter than the average airport blockbuster . |
| 4 | It was as heavy as an ox in spite of the fact that it was no taller than a young steer , and a green and greasy liquid flowed from its wounds . |
| 5 | The girl who picked Pascoe up was a tall redhead in a glove-leather halter top and a skirt no bigger than a broad belt . |
| 6 | Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom . |
| 7 | We crept downstairs like naughty children and Zaria collected a leather handbag no bigger than a small keg of beer from the hallway table . |
| 8 | Only the top surface of the upper chord of the rear stabiliser spar is readily visible and the crack when it was shown to me looked no bigger than a human hair lying across its width , partially hidden by paint and the dirt of many years ' service . |
| 9 | Pointy-Beard was trying to stand and loosen the knot ( by now probably no bigger than a square centimetre ) in his tie . |
| 10 | These regions , known as tribal agencies , are where Afghan and Pakistani opium is made into heroin , often in laboratories no bigger than the average bathroom . |
| 11 | Cornish cattle and the Pictish cattle of Orkney in the tenth century were no bigger than the old Iron Age types and were short-horned . |
| 12 | By the eleventh century they were generally no bigger than the unimproved Iron Age cattle , averaging about 107cm in height , and they were short-horned . |
| 13 | When the first CPR train reached Vancouver on 23 May 1888 , the depot on the waterfront was no larger than a wooden shed . |
| 14 | The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile . |
| 15 | The next job was to plug in the PostScript card , which is no larger than the average credit card , and only three times as thick . |
| 16 | This attractive picture relates the strange BL Lac objects to quasars in a straightforward way , and offers the exciting possibility of looking , in a BL Lac object , deep into the heart of a quasar — possibly down to the central powerhouse where a quasar produces as much power as hundreds of galaxies in a space no larger than the Solar system ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 364 ) . |
| 17 | Use a bit no larger than the original hole |
| 18 | Guidelines for the future , including a meeting on national minorities scheduled for July 1-19 , 1991 ; negotiations on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures ( CSBM ) in Europe [ see p. 36539 ] to be concluded no later than a follow-up summit meeting of the CSCE scheduled for 1992 ; and the earliest possible conclusion of a comprehensive ban on chemical weapons . |
| 19 | Thereafter each quite expensive ball-cum-transmitter was no better than a simple ball . |
| 20 | In The Emperor 's Clothes ( 1953 ) Kathleen Nott called the Christian revivalism of Eliot , Lewis and others no better than a revived superstition ; and in a scathing attack on contemporary dogmatics and the anti-progressive views of literary Modernism she remarked , in tones of ultimate scorn , that Lewis 's interest in the Devil had plumbed unusual depths . |
| 21 | But then we would send our teams away , and they 'd come back with no better than an honourable defeat in the Test Series . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm no better than the great tree hit by lightning at Thornfield , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Some are so high that they enable their makers to detect the presence of a wire no thicker than a human hair stretched across their flyway . |
| 24 | The Legion sounded like a good idea : the pay was good , the uniforms smart , the bullshit no worse than the British Army , and there were varied postings abroad . |
| 25 | Thus Ata'i writes that Molla Ali ( d. 1000/1592 ) , at the beginning of his career , " chose the in which to teach , this at no higher than the 30-akce level . |
| 26 | Until elimination of those stocks is achieved , Labour will retain Britain 's nuclear capability , with the number of warheads no greater than the present total . |
| 27 | Her letter adds : ‘ Until elimination of those stocks is achieved , Labour will retain Britain 's nuclear capability , with the number of warheads no greater than the present total . ’ |
| 28 | He opens the door no wider than an old lady would , and I notice he has one foot firmly behind it just in case . |