Example sentences of "no [adj -er] [conj] a [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 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 5 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover . |