Example sentences of "was no [adj -er] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 5 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 9 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 10 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 11 | Little Billy could see this clearly despite the fact that the whole of the tiny man 's head was no larger than a pea . |
| 12 | Smaller she grew , and smaller yet , till she was no larger than a monkey . |