Example sentences of "[was/were] no [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems |
| 2 | Perpendicular without intermission , taking steps of the same length at the same intervals , their arms hanging useless and helpless they were no better than trussed chickens but for their faces which , even in repose , suggested movement no less than a bird 's wings … . |
| 3 | For many emigrants , conditions at sea were no better than for the animals these ships carried . |
| 4 | One youngster who loved to recite to him felt utterly rejected when she heard him remark that ‘ some unsuccessful applicants were no better than this child ’ . |
| 5 | Men who did not take the cross received gifts of distaff and wool , implying that they were no better than women . |
| 6 | Those who delayed , deserted or refused to obey lawful commands were no better than traitors . |
| 7 | He 'd have to say yes , because he 's sorry for us , I heard him tell Richard we were no better than waifs of the storm , and we should ruin the upholstery , and be taking advantage of his kindness . " |
| 8 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 9 | In one study , hydrolysed ( peptide based ) diets were no better than steroid plus sulfasalazine treatment . |
| 10 | The cumulative effect was that by Anne 's reign relations between Dissenters and Anglicans in many communities were no better than they had been in the 1680s . |
| 11 | Some said the facilities were no better than when it was just the plain Milton Keynes Bowl , for many it was still worth the travel , the wait , the time to see Bruce . |
| 12 | But er they were no better than and no worse than the the others either . |
| 13 | L.T.E. Apart from the change in the official title in small letters on the sides of the vehicles , there were no noticeable or immediate changes . |
| 14 | And I , it 's now ten days , they 're onto some scam , and erm , I 've , I had a letter from Marion erm , course , well to say they were no wiser and er she sent me some of the |
| 15 | Long , easy nonwords gained responses from the skilled readers which were no slower than those to short , difficult nonwords . |
| 16 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 17 | When everything is going fine for us , and God is in quote , blessing us , when our life is flowing smoothly , it 's easy then to have faith , it 's easy then to trust , but do you know , those disciples in that boat , they were no safer after Jesus stilled the storm than beforehand . |
| 18 | Cornish cattle and the Pictish cattle of Orkney in the tenth century were no bigger than the old Iron Age types and were short-horned . |
| 19 | I am a hobbyist of some years standing and I have had my Hatchetfish for over two years since they were no bigger than ½ pieces . |
| 20 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 21 | She was the smallest ; her feet were no bigger than my hands . |
| 22 | They were no bigger than leaf monkeys , but had black caps and a line of black fur about the eyes , giving them an oddly human look . |
| 23 | Wilma finished the session by cantering into four foot fences and popping over them as if they were no bigger than our two foot nine ones — which made me realise how far we have to go . |
| 24 | Gerry : When I started with the organization in 1982 there were no Black or gay groups . |
| 25 | In each basket we compared like with like — so there were no cheap and nasty products with brand names you 've never heard before . |
| 26 | By 1948 , although living standards in general were no higher than a decade previously , the average domestic consumer was using twice as much electricity as then , but paying only half as much for it per kWh in real terms . |
| 27 | They concluded that : ( i ) severe pollution was confined to 400 km of the Saudi coastline south of Kuwait ; ( ii ) that most of the oil in the spills had been digested by microbes ; and iii ) that sea-bed levels of cancer-causing chemicals produced by burning oil were no higher than those found in estuaries in the United Kingdom and USA . |
| 28 | The team also concluded that severe pollution was confined largely to 250 miles of the Saudi coastline south of Kuwait , that most of the oil in the spills had been digested by microbes , and that sea-bed levels of cancer-causing chemicals produced by burning oil were no higher than those found in estuaries in the United States or Britain . |
| 29 | Cleveland Ambulance said their charges were based on running a two-man vehicle and were no higher than elsewhere . |
| 30 | He could remember what a flurry Martha Pritchett used to get into when Lady Debrace stopped in for a cup of tea , and how afterwards she would tell them proudly how her ladyship had sat down and chatted as if she were no grander than Nurse Wilks ! |