Example sentences of "[art] big than [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A tiny black wallet no bigger than a child 's hand .
2 Well it , I mean let's face it it is n't gon na be no bigger than a clock is it ?
3 That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food .
4 Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp .
5 Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea .
6 ‘ And so will her son , though he 's no bigger than a rabbit . ’
7 Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot .
8 In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful .
9 On the other hand , the smallest dinosaur known — of the type that were probably the immediate ancestors of modern birds — was no bigger than a mistlethrush weighing only a few grammes .
10 The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens .
11 When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea .
12 ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’
13 In time , a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand produced a thunderstorm .
14 The only goose with an all-black head , and smallest and darkest of the three wholly black-necked geese , no bigger than a drake Mallard ( p. 53 ) .
15 ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said .
16 ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . )
17 It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam .
18 Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover .
19 Having finished his dinner the candidate retired to the spick and span little room no bigger than a cubbyhole they had placed at his disposal and , when he had put his thoughts and his speeches in good order , stepped out for a breath of air , a short stroll which led him — as he had known it would — to the newly painted door of Odette Adeane .
20 Faith no bigger than a mustard seed .
21 Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box .
22 The digital AC motor speed controller is no bigger than a filofax .
23 They were all eating miniature versions of proper food — a sliver of lamb like a lark 's tongue , a single braised spinach leaf , a mushroom tart no bigger than a cuff-link — like guests in a doll 's house , and trying to ignore the fact that the area around their table , which might have provided space for twelve to stand at a pinch , had now about 300 people in it .
24 Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit .
25 And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head .
26 Yeah yeah it 's fascinating to think why that particular tree actually keeled over , and all the others around , it 's no bigger than the others is it ?
27 They will note that Europe and America have decided not to risk a fight with a Bosnian Serb adversary whose army is probably no bigger than the equivalent of three or four rather ill-equipped divisions .
28 You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller .
29 In shape no bigger than an agate stone
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