Example sentences of "[was/were] no [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … . |
| 2 | For many emigrants , conditions at sea were no better than for the animals these ships carried . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Men who did not take the cross received gifts of distaff and wool , implying that they were no better than women . |
| 5 | Those who delayed , deserted or refused to obey lawful commands were no better than traitors . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 8 | In one study , hydrolysed ( peptide based ) diets were no better than steroid plus sulfasalazine treatment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But er they were no better than and no worse than the the others either . |
| 12 | Long , easy nonwords gained responses from the skilled readers which were no slower than those to short , difficult nonwords . |
| 13 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | She was the smallest ; her feet were no bigger than my hands . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Cleveland Ambulance said their charges were based on running a two-man vehicle and were no higher than elsewhere . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | You were no worse than the rest of them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Belief in the impassibility of God , it is worth noting , was developed in the early Christian centuries against the background of popular religious belief in the world of that day , where gods were no more than human beings on a large scale , subject to the same contingencies , passions , frustrations and feelings of pain or pleasure that determine human nature . |
| 28 | Yet by normal standards her cautious words — she 's 64 , after all — were no more than simple common sense . |
| 29 | The natural resources of Florence were no more than the four elements available to all simple communities since antiquity : earth , air , water and fire . |
| 30 | Mr Johnston said this week 's reform talks were no more than the overture to a long debate that would run into the winter and become embroiled in GATT negotiations . |