Example sentences of "be [art] [adj -er] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pulse-receiver would have been no larger than a matchbox , probably receiving on something like 72.15 megahertz a signal sent from a small transmitter . |
| 2 | Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than humans — some are no taller than a man but most are substantially larger and the biggest Orcs stand well over seven feet tall . |
| 3 | Well it , I mean let's face it it is n't gon na be no bigger than a clock is it ? |
| 4 | However , this is all rather analytical and intellectual ; and if we ourselves can only function on this rational level , our communication with horses will be no better than a tourist who needs a phrase book or dictionary in a foreign country . |
| 5 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The digital AC motor speed controller is no bigger than a filofax . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself . |
| 10 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is Easter weekend in Paris and , while his wife is away , middle-aged Jacques ( Stephen Moore ) brings home Julie , a sexy little bimbo played by Leslie Ash in a mini-skirt that is no broader than a cummerbund . |
| 13 | ‘ And so will her son , though he 's no bigger than a rabbit . ’ |
| 14 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 18 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 22 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 23 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 24 | Little Billy could see this clearly despite the fact that the whole of the tiny man 's head was no larger than a pea . |
| 25 | Smaller she grew , and smaller yet , till she was no larger than a monkey . |