Example sentences of "no [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than humans — some are no taller than a man but most are substantially larger and the biggest Orcs stand well over seven feet tall . |
| 2 | Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover . |
| 3 | It looked no larger than a pin when it finally hit the surface without a sound , and disappeared . |
| 4 | Four thin , wooden gods watched the rotting dead , each made of twisted lengths of birch-branch , no thicker than an arm but twice Tallis 's height . |
| 5 | The challenge became even greater with the advent of 45rpm discs , which had to be provided with an ‘ optional centre ’ no less than an inch and a half in diameter for quick-acting autochange and juke-box mechanisms . |
| 6 | Growing in a neat upright habit no more than a metre or so across and two metres high at maturity , ‘ Yellow Hammer ’ produces a magnificent spring display of butter yellow , narrowly tubular flowers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 9 | This done it soon became clear that Clairvaux had been no more than a pretext and that the real problems lay elsewhere . |
| 10 | SERPS consists of no more than a promise that future generations will pick up the bill . |
| 11 | Attlee during his Washington visit of 4 – 5 December 1950 had been able to elicit no more than a promise that Britain would be kept informed of any developments which might lead to the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 12 | There were walls , no more than a pace or two either side of him . |
| 13 | He was moved and promising miracles , the recovery of things lost , the wholeness and holiness of things profaned ; but the faith she had professed was perhaps no more than a conviction that the star of the Prince of Aberffraw would not fail him , and that God would humour him and not cheat him of the fulfilment of his vow . |
| 14 | The temperature rise is often no more than a degree or two . |
| 15 | The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) . |
| 16 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |
| 20 | It took no more than a year before exhibitions of the works that he had brought out of Russia ( these being just part of what he had owned before leaving his best works to the Russian people ) began their triumphant tour of the prestigious galleries of Europe , America and Canada . |
| 21 | ‘ Yet — with your Grace 's permission ? — if this eight hundred marks was paid over no more than a year and a half ago , surely it can not all have been used or turned into goods so soon , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ No more than a dog or cat . ’ |
| 23 | The village is called Croysant le Wold ; it 's a lost village , more or less — there are a lot of lost villages scattered round the feet of these hills , no more than a grange and a church still standing . |
| 24 | ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . ) |
| 25 | Equally , a guarantee by the surety of the repairing covenant is no more than a covenant or warranty that the guarantor will procure that the tenant , in turn , procures the premises to be kept in repair . |
| 26 | This was no more than a gesture but it helped sustain the morale of the Belgians . |
| 27 | The claim that unschooled Wolof children have not developed the ‘ logical functions ’ of language will appear then as no more than a statement that the conventions in which their thinking is expressed are different from those of the researcher herself . |
| 28 | He whispered something but so close to my ear the sound was distorted and I said , suppressing my voice to no more than a breath because it can be so harsh , ‘ Say it again . |
| 29 | The bomb weighed no more than a pound and a man could carry up to thirty of them . |
| 30 | The position on partial demolition , however , remained uncertain after the House of Lords case , and by degrees various church bodies began to put forward proposals for partial demolition , in some cases leaving no more than a facade or church hall , arguing that , as part of the site was to remain in ecclesiastical use , no permission to demolish was required . |