Example sentences of "no [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " 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 ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . )
7 It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam .
8 Faith no bigger than a mustard seed .
9 Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 In shape no bigger than an agate stone
13 She had some olive oil ; it was in a small jar , possibly a tiny jar no larger than a perfume bottle .
14 I marvelled at it , a frog not even an inch long , no larger than a thumb nail .
15 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 .
16 It was a scale drawing of a miniature microphone , perfectly reproduced , which was in reality no larger than a sugar cube .
17 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 .
18 " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said .
19 In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie .
20 Ideally the accumulated paint layers should be no thicker than the masking tape itself .
21 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 ?
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 It was no more than a ticket booth .
26 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 !
27 It may need no more than a discussion session , or a change of emphasis introduced at an appropriate point to allow this to be covered .
28 And although Cantona has played no more than a bit part following his half-time introduction , his new manager claimed he was well satisfied .
29 With the collapse of the Seamen 's United all thoughts of a national organisation became no more than a pipe dream .
30 So far , I have concentrated on some of the standard aspects of prison life and routine — in some ways no more than a mirror image of other large institutions .
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