Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The digital AC motor speed controller is no bigger than a filofax . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | In shape no bigger than an agate stone |
| 36 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 37 | For one of them the reason may lie no deeper than an ignorance of who God is , with all his Father 's love as the Bible and Jesus reveal him . |
| 38 | Not many years ago , it seemed that almost all readability research , and almost all research in linguistics confined itself to the analysis of units no larger than a sentence . |
| 39 | She had some olive oil ; it was in a small jar , possibly a tiny jar no larger than a perfume bottle . |
| 40 | I marvelled at it , a frog not even an inch long , no larger than a thumb nail . |
| 41 | Yet still , there was to be a branding upon the leather-tough buttocks : an imprint of a clenched fist , no larger than a fingernail . |
| 42 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 43 | No larger than a desk diary , the CompuAdd Companion weighs a remarkable 4.4 pounds — yet has all the performance and functionality of a full-sized 286 PC . |
| 44 | Smaller she grew , and smaller yet , till she was no larger than a monkey . |
| 45 | Little Billy could see this clearly despite the fact that the whole of the tiny man 's head was no larger than a pea . |
| 46 | No larger than a paper-clip , these miniature detonators are used , and only used , within the Soviet space programme at Baikonur . |
| 47 | The pulse-receiver would have been no larger than a matchbox , probably receiving on something like 72.15 megahertz a signal sent from a small transmitter . |
| 48 | It was a scale drawing of a miniature microphone , perfectly reproduced , which was in reality no larger than a sugar cube . |
| 49 | It looked no larger than a pin when it finally hit the surface without a sound , and disappeared . |
| 50 | No better than a whore . |
| 51 | Yet this was a man who felt nothing but contempt for her , who thought her no better than a thief . |
| 52 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 53 | There was Mrs Moore , the dentist 's wife , mother of his friend who had committed suicide because life did not seem worth living ; and there was Mary Johnson 's mother looking as prim as a prune , not knowing that her daughter was no better than a streetwalker . |
| 54 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 55 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 56 | Equally , a feminist who left a meeting , went home and jumped into bed with hubbie or boyfriend , was no better than a member of the fifth column . |
| 57 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 58 | A robot , with no matter how powerful an artificial intelligence , would perform no better than a person . ’ |
| 59 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 60 | Begging your pardon , Sir , but some of those alleged artists that get feted on BBC Two could paint no better than a monkey in the zoo . |