Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In form , the skeletons are rather crude , looking more like playful chimpanzees than fearful osseous frames , with their wide mouths and eye-sockets being no bigger than chocolate drops . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She wore a black dress reaching to just above her knees , suspended from her shoulders by straps no thicker than shoe laces ; black stockings , encasing surprisingly slim legs , and very high-heeled red shoes that elevated her an inch or so above Morse as he stood up and offered her his stool . |
| 4 | Unless those constitutional proposals are properly , fully and adequately addressed in a manner that both this House and the other place can accept , they are no more than pipe dreams . |
| 5 | The County Council has been very active in trying to find a way forward which retains the objective of relieving the A ten eighty eight of lorries , but reduces the rat run in through the small villages using what are no more than country lanes . |
| 6 | Bear in mind that most of the ‘ highways ’ leading out of medieval London were no more than bridle paths . |
| 7 | These are no more than substitution notes decorating the main harmonies . |
| 8 | But fresh controversy arose after the Scottish Office said discussions with industry indicated that the tolls would , at most , be no more than ferry fares — currently £3.80 for a car . |
| 9 | But unlike those Marxists who conceive of the mass media as no more than relay systems working on behalf of the dominant classes , some have forcefully argued that systems of maintenance and reproduction do not necessarily operate smoothly ; there are contradictions , there is social and political dissent and there is political struggle . |
| 10 | The technologies involved , however , are no more than delivery methods , platforms on which new kinds of information products can be built . |
| 11 | Logistic units will be established well forward , with resupply aircraft landing on ‘ dirt strips ’ , Which in reality are no more than fiat fields . |
| 12 | Most of the buildings seen from the airport appeared to be no more than mud huts , although there were some larger buildings of brick and rough stone . |
| 13 | One candidate is the building just inside the north gate at Thorpe-by-Newark , identifiable on the aerial photographs as a much bolder outline than any other structure in the town.58 Excavation has revealed a long rectangular structure , constructed with substantial walls , but no more than mud floors , which was divided longitudinally into two very unequal parts by an internal wall ( see figs. 91 and 92 ) . |
| 14 | Just as the great majority of stations in the United States and Canada , particularly in the earlier period , were no more than frame sheds , so thousands of stations in Africa and Asia were very simple buildings indeed . |
| 15 | The Chancellor 's admission that the PSBR will reach £50 billion in 1993 is no more than City economists were bandying around last autumn . |
| 16 | Trains often ran down main streets and early stations were sometimes no more than street corners . |
| 17 | The IRA regards both as no more than gangster bands . |