Example sentences of "[pers pn] no [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 2 | Yet this was a man who felt nothing but contempt for her , who thought her no better than a thief . |
| 3 | He liked to live in company with another ; Bo-Bo had only negative virtues but , he had to admit , he would be lonely when she died , and the doctors gave her no more than a year . |
| 4 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 5 | His first excursion from the house took him no farther than the garden . |
| 6 | His response to a Christian who might approach him with the request to convert to Hinduism would be to urge him to try to be a good Christian since the Gītā could offer him no more than the Bible . |
| 7 | For a moment he knelt beside the boy , looking down at him ; again , as in the dream — the reality of it no clearer than the vision he had had . |
| 8 | Cadfael felt it , but thought it no more than the tension of the sortes . |
| 9 | It left us no more than a 7-iron into the green . |
| 10 | I think Cowslip 's told us no more than the truth . |
| 11 | The same problem of interpretation arises from any use of manorial records , probably the best available documentary source ; these can tell us no more than the number of holdings which fell vacant on particular estates and throw no light on mortality among landless persons . |