Example sentences of "no [adj -er] [conj] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food .
2 Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp .
3 Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea .
4 Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot .
5 In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful .
6 ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . )
7 It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam .
8 Faith no bigger than a mustard seed .
9 Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box .
10 Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit .
11 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 .
12 She had some olive oil ; it was in a small jar , possibly a tiny jar no larger than a perfume bottle .
13 I marvelled at it , a frog not even an inch long , no larger than a thumb nail .
14 No larger than a desk diary , the CompuAdd Companion weighs a remarkable 4.4 pounds — yet has all the performance and functionality of a full-sized 286 PC .
15 A scientist tells me : ‘ It will come in a size no larger than a Calor Gas cylinder .
16 It was a scale drawing of a miniature microphone , perfectly reproduced , which was in reality no larger than a sugar cube .
17 " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said .
18 In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie .
19 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 .
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