Example sentences of "no [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |
| 2 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 3 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
| 4 | Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot . |
| 5 | In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful . |
| 6 | The only goose with an all-black head , and smallest and darkest of the three wholly black-necked geese , no bigger than a drake Mallard ( p. 53 ) . |
| 7 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 8 | It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam . |
| 9 | Faith no bigger than a mustard seed . |
| 10 | Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box . |
| 11 | Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit . |
| 12 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 13 | In shape no bigger than an agate stone |
| 14 | She had some olive oil ; it was in a small jar , possibly a tiny jar no larger than a perfume bottle . |
| 15 | I marvelled at it , a frog not even an inch long , no larger than a thumb nail . |
| 16 | No larger than a desk diary , the CompuAdd Companion weighs a remarkable 4.4 pounds — yet has all the performance and functionality of a full-sized 286 PC . |
| 17 | It was a scale drawing of a miniature microphone , perfectly reproduced , which was in reality no larger than a sugar cube . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 20 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 21 | In fact , I can describe his manner at that moment no better than the way Miss Kenton puts it in her letter ; it was indeed ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ideally the accumulated paint layers should be no thicker than the masking tape itself . |
| 24 | Well , nowadays you could get no closer than the wire cage around the perimeter , thanks to the hippies or the busloads of Americans or druids maybe , who knew ? |
| 25 | The sentry is claimed to have replied : " Now do n't abaht , I 've got one up the spaht … " but rushed away to get the orderly corporal who , in turn , found the situation beyond his authority , and we were only released by no less than the duty officer . |
| 26 | Ruskin would surely have been surprised if he had been told that a time would come when railway stations , like lakes and mountains , would become a part of the imaginative life of men , and when the sounding express engine no less than the sounding cataract would rouse in them a noble delight . |
| 27 | In some sense this is no more than a public relations exercise , albeit a difficult one . |
| 28 | Any non-party candidate will have a very small chance of being elected and if , surprisingly , he is elected , he will have no more than a minute chance of exercising significant influence in the House . |
| 29 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 30 | Modern scientific man thinks that he is no more than a chance arrangement of dust and water , of molecules — though he may acknowledge that the atoms and molecules , indeed all life forms , are highly ordered and organized ! |