Example sentences of "be no [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it , I mean let's face it it is n't gon na be no bigger than a clock is it ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Canadian provisions would seem to be no better than the English in this respect . |
| 4 | However , they will receive an additional £200 increment on their allowance so that the maximum loss to a basic rate taxpayer aged 65 and over will be no greater than the loss to a basic rate taxpayer — £61 a year — aged under 65 . |
| 5 | Ideally the accumulated paint layers should be no thicker than the masking tape itself . |
| 6 | When the codes of practice were revised recently in response to strong pressure from the police , the guidance was made slightly less restrictive by removing the statement that reasonable suspicion should be no less than the suspicion required to effect arrest without warrant . |
| 7 | The end result will be no different whether the shareholder takes up his or her rights or sells them in the market ; the end value of the holding will remain unchanged . |
| 8 | Time runs from the date of the breach , which will probably be no later than the date of the publication of the decision . |
| 9 | Communication should be mainly through the central command and control centre which may be no larger than the project leader and his small personal staff as may be a group of heads of sub-systems or both . |
| 10 | Although urinary incontinence may be no more than a nuisance in some women , for many it is far more troublesome . |
| 11 | In many cases the accompaniment may be no more than a doubling of the melody ( at the unison or octave , or even in the bass ) with added chordal harmony . |
| 12 | This may be no more than a judgement of which line on a graduated scale a movable needle is nearest to . |
| 13 | It could be no more than a foot wide . |
| 14 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |
| 15 | Therefore the great extent of one or the other at various times in the past , might be no more than a measure of the width of the contemporary climatic belts . |
| 16 | And the Kaiser did everything he could to ensure that his son should be no more than a figurehead in the army given under his command . |
| 17 | Self-defence of this kind may be no more than a threat , as in the case of the inflated toad , standing high on its legs when confronted by a grass snake ( above ) , or the frilled lizard ( right ) which erects a huge umbrella of skin around its gaping jaws . |
| 18 | Pleasure can be no more than a gourmet 's appreciation for delicacies , whereas a happy person can readily settle for a much simpler diet . |
| 19 | Such is the standard of junior sides in this competition that the game appeared to be no more than a formality for us , so our 4–1 defeat came as a complete surprise . |
| 20 | The journalism of ‘ neutrality ’ may therefore be no more than a reflection , and an acknowledgement , of the arrival of a new political force in Britain and a response to the existence of a market as evidenced by the SDP 's success in the political and electoral arena . |
| 21 | It is much more likely to be no more than a reflection of the fact that almost everything we know about Richard as Duke of Aquitaine comes from an English chronicler , Roger of Howden , and Roger only has information when he has access to the reports sent by Richard to his father , that is to say when Henry is in England . |
| 22 | It hardly matters what you are angry about , so long as you convey clearly the message that you are on the point of a serious psychotic meltdown and anyone getting in your way is liable to be no more than a bag of pimply skin and bone shards lying in a pool of blood within seconds . |
| 23 | This immediately triggered talk about a triple ( or is it a quadruple ? ) dip , but many economists believe it will prove to be no more than a stutter . |
| 24 | This chapter can be no more than a combination of large generalizations and small examples , maybe unrepresentative . |
| 25 | I mean , I have n't done a detailed survey on anything , but I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw when I went in there , and I must say , I went there expecting it to be no more than a garden hut . |
| 26 | A dozen flying machines and their pilots would be no more than a blip on a piece of magnetic tape . |
| 27 | It appeared to be no more than a gesture of politeness , but Polly knew he was poised to block her slightest move towards the door . |
| 28 | It would be a gesture , I think , by Councillors of recognition that hardship is erm perhaps being endured and that they should share in it , but it would be no more than a gesture . |
| 29 | But now , here , this morning , in this pokey little office in Queen Anne 's Gate , spring in the air in St James 's Park outside his windows , the sound of military music drifting across from Buckingham Palace as the guards marched — all the elements of human and political drama so clear in his mind — Mick wondered whether it really was his destiny to be no more than a player : just another player . |
| 30 | ‘ Rational animal ’ had been suggested as a definition of the ‘ nature ’ of man ; but this appears to be no more than a specification of some of his properties . |