Example sentences of "no [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens .
2 When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea .
3 ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said .
4 They will note that Europe and America have decided not to risk a fight with a Bosnian Serb adversary whose army is probably no bigger than the equivalent of three or four rather ill-equipped divisions .
5 You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller .
6 Drill these holes no deeper than the length of the screws .
7 For one of them the reason may lie no deeper than an ignorance of who God is , with all his Father 's love as the Bible and Jesus reveal him .
8 Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place .
9 The heads of these children were no larger than the heads of matchsticks .
10 Most are no larger than the palm of a man 's hand , but even spiders this small can have a deadly poisonous bite .
11 The chamber was wide , but no larger than the Halls of Crystal in the palace at Beaufort .
12 First customer deliveries should begin no later than the middle of November , according to Univel 's marketing VP Arun Taneja .
13 Surely it was no later than the winter of 1817 ?
14 Time runs from the date of the breach , which will probably be no later than the date of the publication of the decision .
15 On Jan. 18 the Hungarian government had called for a complete Soviet withdrawal by no later than the end of 1991 [ for Hungarian Defence Minister 's non-committal response to a suggestion to the same effect in December 1989 , see p. 37130 ] .
16 The suggestions are that the County Council in particular should help in the development of satellites to that erm , that business link , one in Oswestry and one at Craven Arms , and we should seek to make sure those satellites are available by no later than the end of nineteen ninety four , the beginning of nineteen ninety five .
17 * The Canadian government is to phase out the production and import of all chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) no later than the end of 1995 — a year earlier than previously targeted and five years ahead of the current requirement of the Montreal Protocol .
18 It has found that all of the councils should have the necessary administrative arrangements in place to issue bills no later than the end of April and to begin enforcement action by May or early June .
19 An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people .
20 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 .
21 Begging your pardon , Sir , but some of those alleged artists that get feted on BBC Two could paint no better than a monkey in the zoo .
22 ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’
23 The Canadian provisions would seem to be no better than the English in this respect .
24 Whatever the poets might say , no children could ‘ run to lisp their sire 's return ’ and climb his knee in a hovel , measuring 7 feet by 12 feet , housing five people , the bed 's end within a foot of the fire and the floor no better than the pavement of a street .
25 The next second the light was gone and Martin with it , and Joe stood in the yard oblivious of the fact that he was without a coat and that the cold was seeping through his pullover , for his outer self was no colder than the feeling within him that had been evoked by Martin 's last words concerning his mother .
26 The legs are flailing wildly — tiny stretches of insect flesh — no thicker than a hair to my naked eye , but obviously larger than life to this poor , wretched creature , who had the misfortune to interrupt my writing of the BBC WILDLIFE Nature Essay 1991 to ( or not to be ) .
27 Newton 's law of gravitation has no explicit time dependence , implying that gravitational effects are transmitted instantaneously to all parts of the Universe ; however , it is a basic postulate of SR that signals travel no faster than the speed of light .
28 They are no dimmer than the spirits of men and children .
29 You were no worse than the rest of them .
30 But the new two-axle units were actually responsible for part of the upsurge in traffic on their routes and were certainly no worse than the buses with which they were successfully competing .
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