Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] no [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt at one level that this was no worse than she deserved . |
| 2 | This was no less than , politically speaking , one of the great strategic withdrawals of history . |
| 3 | But this was no more than a temporary reversal in the most savage onslaught from England which the Scots had ever experienced . |
| 4 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 5 | This was no more than bravado since I charged blindly on . |
| 6 | This was no more than a gesture but it helped sustain the morale of the Belgians . |
| 7 | This was no more than common prudence . |
| 8 | All the equipment here could be explained away ; this was no more than a training ground for those interested in self-defence , martial arts and war games . |
| 9 | Undaunted , Cocks hit back with yet another tract , A True and Impartial Inquiry … into the Late Bloody Execution at Thorn … ( 1727 ) , though this was no more than a stale reprise of past polemic , and was only published posthumously . |
| 10 | But , as far as James was concerned , this was no more than a PRECONDITION for the abolition of slavery . |
| 11 | But this was no more than the beginning ; for by now they knew very well that there were French knights fighting with the Scottish companies , and in fair numbers , too , and the south of England had been warned to look to its defences in case of a direct assault from across the channel . |
| 12 | But this was no more than a politeness with little political meaning , and one which disappeared , though slowly , during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This was no more or less than the truth . |
| 15 | The earliest of all were no more than small collections of handwritten copies of the agreements concerned . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Greek civil war of 1946–49 — less than half a century ago in fact , but merely yesterday in the politics of south-east Europe — was the last great European left-versus-right convulsion ; by comparison , the Hungarian rebellion of 1956 was no more than a bloody skirmish . |
| 18 | I daresay the Faraday Junior was no worse than any other school : indeed even a little better . |
| 19 | Together with the data from the transits of Mercury , this re-interpretation of the old records led to the conclusion that the maximum extent of any change on the Sun 's radius since 1850 was no more than a decline of 0.08 seconds of arc per century , with a possible error range of plus or minus 0.07 . |
| 20 | The 1961 Programme , for instance , had defined itself as a ‘ Programme for the building of communist society ’ ; the revised version of 1986 was no more than a Programme for the ‘ planned and all-round perfection of socialism ’ and for further advance to communism through the country 's ‘ accelerated socio-economic development ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I was stood outside me shop all night , and most were no more than kids . ’ |
| 22 | Everything that occurred in the educational sphere after 1927 was no more than a " clearing-up " operation . |