Example sentences of "no [adj] than [noun] of [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The earliest stations were no more than collections of weatherboard huts , similar to a contemporary group of stores . |
| 10 | 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 . |