Example sentences of "no [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | From the explosive and detonator , a wire ran round the belt to the side , where it connected with a lithium battery similar to and no larger than the sort used to power digital watches . |
| 4 | second , where on registration of a charge the Registrar ( as he can be required to do ) issues a certificate of registration stating the date on which particulars of a charge were delivered to him , this is made conclusive evidence that the particulars were delivered no later than the date stated on the certificate and a presumption that they were delivered no earlier . |
| 5 | On account of the shelling , motor transport could approach no closer than a cross-roads nicknamed ‘ Le Tourniquet ’ at the end of the Voie Sacrée . |
| 6 | But if they would work no more and no faster than the job required , they would work no slower and no less : nobody had to give them a special incentive to give of their best . |
| 7 | Its sample was no less than every child born in England , Scotland , and Wales in one week in March 1958 . |
| 8 | The ensuing dilemma that arts educators find themselves in is no less than the struggle to transform reality into something which more fully reflects the astounding potential that both boys and girls have to construct their own lives ; to make their own mark . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Restating those views in summary form , in a case where the necessity to require a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) arises for one of the reasons specified in section 7(3) , what is required is no more and no less than the formula used in the instant case or words to the like effect . |
| 11 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 12 | The death sentences were commuted at the end of 1849 , but only when the prisoners had arrived at the place of execution and been led to believe , as Dostoevsky put it , that they " had no more than a minute left to live " . |
| 13 | Subsequently what had been no more than a name implying a certain diplomatic affiliation between the Franks and Valentinian must have been interpreted as providing a genuine indication of the origins of the Franks . |
| 14 | Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley . |
| 15 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
| 16 | The proposal seems no more than a window dressing exercise . |
| 17 | Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable . |
| 18 | His Gothic hall is , moreover , no more than a salon rechristened ; there is a separate dining-room and the servants are kept firmly at a distance by the staircase . |
| 19 | As Edmund is unlikely to have issued law in which he exhorted himself , these provisions may be no more than a programme laid before the full witan , and perhaps preached to it . |
| 20 | The lecture , then , can be no more than a guide to assist your studies . |
| 21 | This capacity is no more than a device to enable the organisation to act , and should not be seen as either creating or weighing against an agency relationship . |
| 22 | If a tenant takes only an upper floor of a building and has no more than a right to use the entrance hall for the purposes of approaching the property demised he must stipulate for the right to put a nameplate outside the property ( other than that part demised to him ) if he desires this convenience ( Berry ( Frederick ) Ltd v Royal Bank of Scotland [ 1949 ] 1 KB 619 per Lord Goddard CJ at 621 ) . |
| 23 | And , as we shall see , one who has mere possession at the date of the conversion can generally sue , and so can one who has no more than a right to possess . |
| 24 | No more than an hour passed before Jean-Claude came to me in the scullery and said he would be away for a few days . |
| 25 | Section 6 , like many other sections of the Act is no more than an attempt to put into an Act of Parliament a rule of common law . |
| 26 | Kim Dae Jung had accused Roh of staging a constitutional coup by his merger with the opposition , and had characterized the DLP as no more than an attempt to provide a form of constitutional legitimacy for the government 's increasing authoritarianism . |
| 27 | ‘ Taxation ’ is no more than the name given to the quantification process whereby the amount of recoverable costs and disbursements is ascertained . |
| 28 | These unimportant trivialities are no more than the girl prised out of him . ’ |
| 29 | Having raised expectations , he went on to limit that help to just 100,000 people ; and of those 100,000 , 60,000 were offered no more than the chance to work on a community scheme for next to nothing . |
| 30 | But if even in the sciences rationality is no more than the capacity to criticize the spontaneous , where can we expect it to be anything else ? |