Example sentences of "[prep] no [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he makes it — and many experts think he can — it will be a massive vindication of his decision four years ago to quit a promising school career after no fewer than nine O-levels , giving up the chance of A-levels and university to turn squash professional at the tender age of just 17 . |
| 2 | In order to be able to make seating arrangements I would be grateful if you would please , please and return the slip below no later than thirtieth August nineteen ninety one . |
| 3 | The conference approved the Economic Equality policy review which proposes : Ending tax on childcare ; Introducing a minimum wage starting at half of average male earnings ( £2.80 an hour ) , rising to two-thirds the average ; Income tax levels of no higher than 50 per cent at the top , down to less than 20 per cent at the bottom ; ‘ A significant and generous increase in child benefit over the lifetime of the Parliament ’ ; To tax gifts and inheritance at the point of receipt ; To crack down on tax loopholes ; Raise pensions immediately by £5 for single people and £8 for couples ; To introduce a new disability benefit ; To simplify income support rules ; To keep mortgage interest tax relief ‘ at a single rate equivalent to the basic rate relief which we inherit ’ . |
| 4 | This has been capped by the well publicised current appearance of no less than Rain Man ( Warner ) for sale ( £14.99 ) as well as for rent , when hitherto the two spheres have tacitly been regarded as mutually exclusive . |
| 5 | The sampling theorem indicates that we must sample these phenomena at a frequency of no less than half their wavelength if we are to avoid bias in measurement . |
| 6 | On this basis , a data flow of no less than 1 terabyte ( i.e. 10¹2 ; bytes ) /day is anticipated by the mid-1990s . |
| 7 | This was a pity , since Hitchcock had the assistance of no less than Hein Heckroth as production designer and fellow-cockney expatriate Albert Whitlock ( who had also worked on The Birds and Marnie ) to do the matte paintings — he created most of the art gallery that figures in one sequence as a meeting place . |
| 8 | Qualifications for the per cent club , which was launched by the Prince of Wales in nineteen eighty six , is the contribution of no less than half a per cent of pre-tax , U K profits , or one per cent of dividends to the community . |
| 9 | The Chairman , for example , was one of no fewer than five Irish Americans to have held the top job in UM . |
| 10 | It also became the largest city in Western Europe , with walls enclosing an area of no fewer than 483 acres . |
| 11 | Henry replied , in an open letter , ‘ It is I ’ , and over the course of no fewer than 63 pages drew a factual , logical and haunting picture of the plight of his beloved Combsburgh , as he perceived it in the winter of 1830/31 . |
| 12 | This stretch of coastline contains the outlets of no fewer than seven rivers . |
| 13 | One mole-nest was found with an adjoining store of no fewer than 1 , 280 worms . |
| 14 | It was a red-letter day for his supporters everywhere when , on 31 December 1720 , a son was born to James 's new young wife , in the presence of no fewer than 100 cardinals , ambassadors and other important witnesses ; clearly the charge of being a ‘ warming-pan ’ changeling was not going to be laid against Charles Edward . |
| 15 | The RPK has not been formally registered : it has 2,000 members and Russian law requires that a new party must present a list of no fewer than 5,000 members to register with the justice ministry . |
| 16 | However , he thought it was probably the second language of no fewer than ninety per cent of Tanzanians . |
| 17 | That victory was a first in a Grand Slam tournament for Panatta , one of no fewer than 14 players since ‘ 77 to have made winning Grand Slam debuts in Paris . |
| 18 | THE recovery of no fewer than eleven kinds of filamentous microfossil from 3,465-million-year-old rocks in Western Australia ( J. W. Schopf Science 260 , 640–646 ; 1993 ) , shows that life was not only in existence a few hundred million years after the planet was formed , but was thriving : rarely does one find single fossils of this antiquity , let alone entire communities . |
| 19 | When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime . |
| 20 | The output of no fewer than 30 government ‘ think tanks ’ was devoted to the cost-cutting priorities of animal rearing in post-war years . |
| 21 | Is the Opposition spokesman afraid that people will remember the days before the Government 's policy when political meddling led to huge overcapacity , massive losses and the closure of no fewer than three plants under Labour in Scotland alone ? |
| 22 | Planning on these lines reached its climax at Lisbon in February 1952 when the target of no fewer than 94 divisions for the defence of Europe was agreed . |
| 23 | Keeping such a cold temperature will require many food companies to buy better refrigeration equipment so , until April 1993 , a temperature of no warmer than 8°C must be maintained for those foods . |
| 24 | SERPS consists of no more than a promise that future generations will pick up the bill . |
| 25 | In fact , much points towards the conclusion that , despite its centrality to Hitler 's own thinking , anti-Semitism was for the most part of no more than secondary importance as a factor shaping popular opinion in the Third Reich . |
| 26 | For the majority of the population , it seems that , now as before , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was of no more than secondary interest . |
| 27 | Ken de la Salle , head of foreign exchange , also stayed cool , predicting a top rate of no more than Dm2.88 for the pound the following day . |
| 28 | Yet for many centuries , Cheltenham consisted of no more than a single street , lined with a few houses . |
| 29 | He was guilty of no more than his usual exaggeration when , at the age of twenty-four , he announced to a friend that he had read ‘ almost every thing ’ . |
| 30 | The timing of these concerted attacks to the same day , along the entire front , made it impossible for the Austro-Hungarian forces to be switched back and forth behind their line , with the result that they had to fight each battle with the support of no more than local reserves . |