Example sentences of "[was/were] no [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | In each basket we compared like with like — so there were no cheap and nasty products with brand names you 've never heard before . |
| 3 | The Lost Pandas were no more and he needed a name for a group he was forming with Keith Gregory . |
| 4 | And yet their brands were no different and no better than what could be bought here , because her father had been to Harrods store in London and had a contract with them , and they were very good to deal with , for they gave the lowest prices to orders from clubs , messes , hotels and buyers . |
| 5 | The 24-year-old David Stirling was no rough and ready brawling cut-throat though , in spite of his thirst for coming to grips with the enemy . |
| 6 | She rang in on the fifth day to say she was no better and did n't feel she was getting anywhere . |
| 7 | Popular participation in electoral politics began to flag after 1951 but arguably this was because most people felt less urgency as regards political change ; there was no strong and deep-going popular reaction against the government . |
| 8 | King was pushing him hard , telling him he was no good and such like , when to King 's surprise Smith started to answer back and no one ever did that , so things worsened and it was n't long before they started fighting , an alarming situation on a small cramped footplate . |
| 9 | Edward 's coup was not , therefore , followed by the lavish displays of patronage which had followed Edward II 's victory in 1322 or the triumph of Mortimer and Isabella in 1327 , and there was no immediate and general reversal of the judgements of 1326–7 . |
| 10 | This time was no different and my master left Syon with the tears streaming down his face . |
| 11 | It was no more and no less than this : he had deserted the only proper employment of the human mind , theology , to go a-whoring after other studies and other learning . |
| 12 | Someone — I think it was Klemperer — said that conducting was no more and no less than the ‘ power of suggestion ’ . |
| 13 | I 've heard the account in hushed and pulsing detail and frankly it was no more and no less squalid than you might expect . |
| 14 | She began to understand how the bleak vision she had been shown was no more and no less than the extremes to which such powers might go if once they lost touch with the exactions of a loving heart . |
| 15 | It was no more and no less than such a creature deserved . |
| 16 | We then heard an exposition of what being a Sufi was about from Nazir 's own brother — and he suggested that this was no more and no less than what being a truly spiritual Muslim was about . |
| 17 | There was no sweet and sour . |
| 18 | However , if in Pike there was no obvious and serious risk of injury , this form of manslaughter has a part to play . |
| 19 | Tudor England was no cultured and sophisticated Italian state , but the country did feel the influence of the humanists and gave hospitality to Erasmus . |