Example sentences of "[was/were] no great [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Where there were differences they were between London and America , not England and America and were no greater than between London and the provinces where the industrial revolution was changing the world . |
| 2 | It is easy to forget that the majority of the people living on earth still lived and died where they had been born , or , more precisely , that their movements were no greater or no different from what they would have been before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 3 | The Old Testament laws endeavoured to ensure that punishment was no greater than the offence , and in any case was less than private retribution . |
| 4 | Salvidge of Liverpool was the best-known example , becoming chairman of the National Union in 1913 and often cited as the only party boss on the American model in English politics , but his authority in Liverpool was no greater than that of Sir James Oddy in Bradford or Sir Percy Woodhouse in Manchester . |
| 5 | Nietzsche 's capacity to stick to a plan , however , was no greater than before , and at or towards the end of the year he produced a spate of alternatives . |