Example sentences of "no [adj -er] [conj] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surgeons had to join blood vessels of only two millimetres in diameter and use suturing materials no broader than a human hair . |
| 2 | It was as heavy as an ox in spite of the fact that it was no taller than a young steer , and a green and greasy liquid flowed from its wounds . |
| 3 | The girl who picked Pascoe up was a tall redhead in a glove-leather halter top and a skirt no bigger than a broad belt . |
| 4 | Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom . |
| 5 | We crept downstairs like naughty children and Zaria collected a leather handbag no bigger than a small keg of beer from the hallway table . |
| 6 | Only the top surface of the upper chord of the rear stabiliser spar is readily visible and the crack when it was shown to me looked no bigger than a human hair lying across its width , partially hidden by paint and the dirt of many years ' service . |
| 7 | Beneath this lay sixty to a hundred communion wafers , each no bigger than a ten pence piece , each with four small Xs crossed by vertical letter Ps embossed on the surface . |
| 8 | Pointy-Beard was trying to stand and loosen the knot ( by now probably no bigger than a square centimetre ) in his tie . |
| 9 | When the first CPR train reached Vancouver on 23 May 1888 , the depot on the waterfront was no larger than a wooden shed . |
| 10 | The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile . |
| 11 | Guidelines for the future , including a meeting on national minorities scheduled for July 1-19 , 1991 ; negotiations on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures ( CSBM ) in Europe [ see p. 36539 ] to be concluded no later than a follow-up summit meeting of the CSCE scheduled for 1992 ; and the earliest possible conclusion of a comprehensive ban on chemical weapons . |
| 12 | Thereafter each quite expensive ball-cum-transmitter was no better than a simple ball . |
| 13 | In The Emperor 's Clothes ( 1953 ) Kathleen Nott called the Christian revivalism of Eliot , Lewis and others no better than a revived superstition ; and in a scathing attack on contemporary dogmatics and the anti-progressive views of literary Modernism she remarked , in tones of ultimate scorn , that Lewis 's interest in the Devil had plumbed unusual depths . |
| 14 | Some are so high that they enable their makers to detect the presence of a wire no thicker than a human hair stretched across their flyway . |