Example sentences of "no [adj] [noun sg] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Years of effort can find no other home than the darkness of a filing cabinet . |
2 | Two days later , Coningham replied that he thought the irregular treatment of the Broad Sanctuary houses stemmed from ‘ no other motive than the architect 's wish for the picturesque ’ . |
3 | Now he claims to have abandoned this principle , apparently for no other reason than the pursuit of electoral palatability . |
4 | Without amendments to the law , depreciation charges would mean existing taxpayers effectively paying twice for the same assets , for no other reason than the application of SSAP 12 . |
5 | Many of those studies use the States themselves as their organizing units , if for no other reason than the convenience that data are readily available for mapping at that scale . |
6 | The art of management , however , was more than the successful bribery of fifty per cent plus one , if for no other reason than the fact that there was never enough of the articles of bribery to employ it on such a scale , even if the voters had been willing to be so bought . |
7 | However , on our continent , on the doorstep of the most civilised part of the world , we are watching human beings killing each other for no other reason than the fact that they live next door to each other . |
8 | For a while , there was no other sound than the tramp of heavy footsteps , but the silence was finally broken by a familiar voice . |