Example sentences of "no [adj] than [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The tiny lady in purple looking after the money , 78 years old and no bigger than twopennorth of copper , was Jess Wilson who turned out to have been a British clay pigeon champion many years ago .
2 They are no bigger than grains of rice .
3 Prohibition of drugs , they say , works no better than prohibition of alcohol did in the United States .
4 It was also carried on in some few villages : fulling mills operated at East Hendred , near Wantage , Brimpton and Colthorp , as well as one at Bagnor owned by no less than Jack of Newbury himself .
5 The purist will point out that every aircraft accident results from human error of some kind ; even the most complex technical failure has its origin in the work of a designer , manufacturer or maintenance engineer somewhere , and so-called ‘ acts of God ’ such as structural failure in extreme turbulence beyond the limits of airworthiness criteria are no more than failures of airworthiness engineers to assess the limits correctly .
6 Often the timbers were no more than columns of sort of dampish dust because they had n't been able to breathe in this kind of brick envelope .
7 What is strange about this is that phonemes are no more than elements of meaning but kinship terms also represent real relationships lived by people .
8 ‘ Punishment ’ may be no more than withdrawal of rewards .
9 Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see .
10 It has even been held that presence remains no more than evidence of encouragement even when it is accompanied by a secret intention to help if necessary one of the participants in an affray .
11 Some say he is now no more than mayor of Mogadishu , retaining only the loyalty of his own Marehan clan and other Darode tribes .
12 The earliest stations were no more than collections of weatherboard huts , similar to a contemporary group of stores .
13 La Doriclea ( 1645 ) is notable for its number of choral scenes , which were clearly sung by genuine choruses — unlike the cori which were commonly no more than ensembles of soloists .
14 Of the others — and this is no more than reportage of answers to the question - the ambulance services emerge reasonably well , in that they allow service by right of assessment .
15 Higher public spending , together with lower tax revenues , mean that the UK is now outside the Maastricht target range for EC fiscal convergence , namely a PSBR no higher than 3% of GDP .
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