Example sentences of "[coord] no [adj] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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No Sentence
1 4.3 The above forecasts shall be given by the Company to the Supplier on the basis that they are for information only , and , while the Company will exercise all reasonable care in their compilation , the Company shall be under no obligation ( legal or otherwise ) to order all or any of or no more than the quantities shown in the said forecasts .
2 Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover .
3 But if they would work no more and no faster than the job required , they would work no slower and no less : nobody had to give them a special incentive to give of their best .
4 She began to understand how the bleak vision she had been shown was no more and no less than the extremes to which such powers might go if once they lost touch with the exactions of a loving heart .
5 He was going home , and home meant to him no more and no less than the room where his mother was dying .
6 Restating those views in summary form , in a case where the necessity to require a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) arises for one of the reasons specified in section 7(3) , what is required is no more and no less than the formula used in the instant case or words to the like effect .
7 It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion .
8 From the explosive and detonator , a wire ran round the belt to the side , where it connected with a lithium battery similar to and no larger than the sort used to power digital watches .
9 Providing that the catfish is avoided , and no more than a total of 15 cm ( 6 in ) length fish is introduced for every 0.09 square metre ( square foot ) of the surface area of the water , excluding the marginal areas , then few problems should be encountered .
10 First a request , and no more than a request , for an amendment to the order or some sort of assurance concerning its implementation ; these tend to be few in number .
11 To the rapid , repetitive beat two glistening bodies were contorting themselves into an impossible position , their backs horizontal to the floor and no more than a foot from it .
12 Most of this level is involved in the physical functioning of our bodies — breathing , circulation , heartbeat and so on — and no more than a quarter is available for dealing with our conscious thought processes .
13 The ‘ fact ’ of the first premiss covers all and no more than the facts awareness of which would modify spontaneous reactions to the issue in question ; ‘ Face facts ’ will be applicable to the issue only within the scope of this information .
14 The following succession of chords necessitates a change from A to A ♯ and no more if the harp is set to the notes D , E ♯ , F ♯ , G ♯ , A , B ♯ , C ♯ , for they are then written thus :
15 An odd proposal , but no odder than the belief sustained for 40 years that the Kuomintang would return to Beijing to rule all of China .
16 Holding high small thin green shoots thicker than a matchstick but no thicker than a pencil , he jeered at women satisfied , he said , by ‘ little boys ’ .
17 In short , public spending was to rise in real terms but no faster than the GDP .
18 After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself .
19 The chamber was wide , but no larger than the Halls of Crystal in the palace at Beaufort .
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