Example sentences of "[prep] no more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , generalisations about the sexuality of women is of no more relevance in a criminal trial than generalisations about sadistic tendencies or pornographic fantasies in men . |
| 2 | As we saw in World War II when SOE agents in France were deliberately sacrificed in order to plant deception schemes upon the Germans , ' ! espionage is a very brutal-game in which human lives are of no more significance than pieces on a chess board . |
| 3 | It is sometimes said that the difference of sex is of no more significance than the difference of race . |
| 4 | Of no more strength and substance against inertia |
| 5 | But the creation of the European Community over 30 years ago was inspired by the idea of no more war in Europe . |
| 6 | In that year , 1955 , when McCarthy was of no more consequence , twenty-two witnesses plucked up courage not to testify , including the folk singer , Pete Seeger , who got a year in jail for his stand . |
| 7 | The above two examples give body to the suggestion by Alan Clarke that early learning , in itself , is of no more consequence than learning at any other stage of development , and that it will bring about long-term effects only if it is repeatedly reinforced throughout subsequent childhood . |
| 8 | Without them we had been , as formerly , a Prey to every petty Invader ; and the flourishing Empire of Great-Britain would be of no more consequence in Europe than the petty Republick of Lucca in Italy . |
| 9 | But for her the difference of sex is essentially of no more import than are differences of race . |
| 10 | The fact of Jesus ’ maleness then would seem to be of no more import than is his or her sexuality in the case of any other human being . |
| 11 | On this view , understandably , animals would be of no more worth in themselves than drugs or edifying books that produced the same effect . |
| 12 | ‘ This man is of no more use to the world than those artists who came to fawn on me and scrape a little importance for themselves . |
| 13 | I did so , and seeing I was of no more use , I rushed inside to awaken my older brother and sister to show them what had happened . |
| 14 | This constitutes " a green desert " of no more use to wildlife than a regularly mown and weeded lawn . |
| 15 | Pairs of RIC men were patrolling on each side of the wide thoroughfare and , though to Jacob they were of no more account than any other pedestrians , he realised that Deirdre could not feel so unconcerned . |
| 16 | They decided that they should go to work as no more news could be expected yet and Maureen hurried first to see Sarah . |
| 17 | I ca n't sneak off no more look . |
| 18 | John-William Dallam would give her credit for no more sense than that . |
| 19 | For no more money ? |
| 20 | And for no more money . |
| 21 | I killed him for no more reason than I wanted to do it . |
| 22 | I joined an evening political group in Bermondsey and listened , with five other people and a dog to Miss Ellen Wilkinson 's plea for no more steel to be sold to Germany . |
| 23 | This accommodating and recommended summit is Bruach na Frithe , reached from Sligachan by a path leaving the pedestrian track over the Bealach a' Mhaim ; it is safe , without hazards , and calls for no more effort than the ascent of Scafell Pike in the English Lake District . |
| 24 | This set me searching , with no more success , yet it is one of the best falls in the west . |
| 25 | After a restless night , she tried again next morning , but with no more success . |
| 26 | Anyway , what about Sam , who takes the Ring but hands it back with only momentary delay , Pippin and Merry , who show no desire for it at all , Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli , who display the same indifference without the excuse of ignorance , and Boromir 's brother Faramir , who realises the Ring is in his power but refuses to take it , with no more sign of mental turmoil than a ‘ strange smile ’ and a glint in the eye ? |
| 27 | I 'd got a fumbling schoolboy with no more idea of what a girl needed than the man in the moon . |
| 28 | Open-palmed they waved with no more sense of the use of hands to touch grasp or hold than a water plant ; infinitely gentle trailing things , the blind tendrils of a sea-anemone . |
| 29 | Whereas touristy me — town-bred and with no more knowledge of nags than a few donkey-rides sixty years ago — I rode high and proud on Suzy , a two-year-old Arab who was full of wind and nervous at moving so slowly . |
| 30 | Specimens of these butterflies are often found with bite-marks in the region of these false eyes , showing that bird predators really are attracted to this part of the body , allowing the insects to fly off to safety with no more damage than a few frayed edges . |