Example sentences of "was [art] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Testament laws endeavoured to ensure that punishment was no greater than the offence , and in any case was less than private retribution . |
| 2 | The residential streets did n't like it early in the morning , the clatter of Midnight 's hooves on their concrete drives , but she was no worse than the milkman , and they were quick enough to scoop up any free dung for their roses , she noticed . |
| 3 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was Mrs Moore , the dentist 's wife , mother of his friend who had committed suicide because life did not seem worth living ; and there was Mary Johnson 's mother looking as prim as a prune , not knowing that her daughter was no better than a streetwalker . |
| 6 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 7 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 8 | Let his colleagues con themselves if they wished but he knew that Tech-Green , for all its grand , humane claims , was no better than the monetarist governments who 'd reigned and toppled before them . |
| 9 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 10 | Burun cursed , and Rostov saw that the straw circle had been moved back and turned sideways so that it was no wider than a man 's forearm . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the smallest dinosaur known — of the type that were probably the immediate ancestors of modern birds — was no bigger than a mistlethrush weighing only a few grammes . |
| 13 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 14 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 15 | And then , purely on impulse , Cardiff heard himself ask a crazy question , but a question that was no crazier than the situation he 'd found himself in of late , with people who vanished into and out of walls , the hideous death of four people , three of them his own men and a stalking monstrosity from the pages of a horror comic out there somewhere in the night … not to mention cars that just fell out of the sky . |
| 16 | Leeds began as if their miserable Anfield record was no more than a myth and Liverpool had the indignity of being pinned in their penalty area in front of an affronted Kop . |
| 17 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 18 | Now another life was about to begin , one in which she was no more than a surname and number , a woman who had lifted her hand in salute and sworn allegiance to King and country . |
| 19 | It was no more than a change of emphasis , but it emboldened the opposition . |
| 20 | He was searching for ‘ his class ’ , which he never found , and talked about ‘ the laboratory ’ , which was no more than a back kitchen with a bunsen burner and running water . |
| 21 | But Malebranche rejected various parts of Descartes 's proof , concluding that theoretically the material world was no more than a possibility , and could be accepted only on the basis of faith . |
| 22 | I remember when Sarah Riddle was no more than a schoolgirl she was had up for … ’ |
| 23 | The manager thought his lunchtime call to Anfield was no more than a formality . |
| 24 | It was no more than a flip ad-lib . |
| 25 | He said Popova and Klyun were unoriginal , adding that there was nothing interesting about them , while Rodchenko was no more than a photographer . |
| 26 | With prescience Ho proclaimed : ‘ Great as was the victory it was no more than a beginning . ’ |
| 27 | The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child . |
| 28 | They seemed to smell the air and if a lone bird hove in sight , they 'd pick it up when it was no more than a speck and watch it till it disappeared , and everything about it would be important to them — the direction of its flight , the way it flew , its height above the water , and so on . |
| 29 | Again Mungo had the sensation that the village was no more than a clearing ; a space borrowed from the forest . |
| 30 | Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley . |