Example sentences of "no [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 3 | There were walls , no more than a pace or two either side of him . |
| 4 | The temperature rise is often no more than a degree or two . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ No more than a dog or cat . ’ |
| 8 | ( 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 . ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Attached to the Palace at Hailing in medieval times was the Bishop 's or Church Prison , mainly used for detaining those accused of lesser crimes such as debt and was probably no more than a cell or a building without windows but lit from a small skylight . |
| 12 | Some are quite a major commitment , some a small but regular commitment , others no more than an hour or even a few minutes of your time . |
| 13 | If the telephone conversation amounts to no more than an inquiry or preliminary discussion , it may be that no contract is made then . |