Example sentences of "no [adj] [conj] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no more and no less than such a creature deserved . |
| 2 | In practice what will happen is that in the middle of the field where the deliberate knock-on is no more than inconvenient a free-kick will be awarded . |
| 3 | In Elizabethan Willingham the typical holding was no more than half a yardland , a size which in practice varied from 14 to over 20 acres . |
| 4 | Mounds of dirt , rock and sand — little hills engulfed by dunes — blocked our view so that we could see no more than half a mile in any direction . |
| 5 | The two narrows are narrow indeed — the first no more than half a mile wide and , before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 , crowded with a mass of shipping . |
| 6 | The tunnels were gloomier , the only illumination coming from occasional bf tubes suspended awkwardly from holes hacked at random in the roof , no more than half a metre above their heads . |
| 7 | Cambridge put up a tremendous fight and there was no more than half a length between the crews for 14 minutes . |
| 8 | The first English gold coin was struck only in 1255 and it was not until 1344 that the country was able to begin to sustain what proved to be no more than half a millennium of minting a gold denomination in its regular coinage . |