Example sentences of "[vb past] no [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The bomb weighed no more than a pound and a man could carry up to thirty of them . |
| 2 | And he was there , making the impossible leap from the ground to the moving platform , ducking beneath the barrel of the cannon , waving his chainsword in circles as if it weighed no more than a walking stick . |
| 3 | Before she had time to move she felt his arms around her , scooping her bodily from the fountain as if she weighed no more than a feather . |
| 4 | She was lifted against his bare chest as if she weighed no more than a feather , the shock of his warm skin and the slight roughness of short , curling hair against her palms rendering her abruptly speechless . |
| 5 | I had just enough sense to appreciate that as a pain it rated no higher than a toothache . |
| 6 | The idea of regional or republican cost-accounting received no more than a cautious welcome in the resolution on national relations that was adopted at the conference ; the resolution did however speak of the ‘ further development ’ of the federation , involving the transfer of greater powers to the local level and to the union republics in particular . |
| 7 | Perhaps Somalia has more in common with Chad , another desert full of warlords , where the toppling of one gang by another caused no more than a bit of looting last month . |
| 8 | Before World War II , as Drucker relates , ‘ all the books on management filled no more than a modest shelf ’ . |
| 9 | He reached for Freddy , and with what seemed no more than a flick of his wrist pitched him across the foyer . |
| 10 | Surely , to apply the label ‘ manslaughter ’ to the conduct of a person who envisaged no more than a common assault , e. g. by a single punch , is both disproportionate and unfair . |
| 11 | The boy showed no more than a formal interest in her . |
| 12 | The largest was at Gretna on the Solway Firth and it became no less than a State-developed new town , south-west of the existing village . |
| 13 | Henceforth the local , stable community where relationships were both personal and persistent became no more than a rarity in the modern world . |
| 14 | None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) . |
| 15 | In some cases the tube connecting the bag to the gut became no more than a solid thread . |
| 16 | With the collapse of the Seamen 's United all thoughts of a national organisation became no more than a pipe dream . |
| 17 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 18 | And old man Verne-Smith and his wife , he knew , lived no more than a mile away , but them he avoided out of simple antipathy . |
| 19 | This was reflected in the prices paid for the average in-calf and maiden heifer , which at times made no more than a good commercial first-calver at Carlisle . |
| 20 | Against this background the terms of settlement of the 1911 strike indicated no more than a truce in the battle for the control of the supply of labour in the industry . |
| 21 | When the Canadian National was formed it inherited no fewer than a thousand stations west of Lake Superior . |
| 22 | In Russia the war aroused no more than a brief flicker of patriotic enthusiasm : years of nationalist propaganda under the last two tsars failed to bear fruit . |
| 23 | In the course of his farming life , Quentin Seddon kept no more than a handful of pigs . |
| 24 | Supposed to be matron , and knew no more than a charwoman . |
| 25 | She lay down again and resolutely set her mind on sleep , with such good effect that she knew no more until a hand on her shoulder woke her . |
| 26 | Nurse practitioners in most of the participating major departments managed no more than a small fraction of the patients each day . |
| 27 | Only the top surface of the upper chord of the rear stabiliser spar is readily visible and the crack when it was shown to me looked no bigger than a human hair lying across its width , partially hidden by paint and the dirt of many years ' service . |
| 28 | It looked no larger than a pin when it finally hit the surface without a sound , and disappeared . |
| 29 | He sat forward , squinting through a blood haze at what looked no more than a child . |
| 30 | A warning light on the dashboard heralded a thrown alternator belt , which took no more than a swift shop at the courteous and enthusiastic Vauxhall dealer Ryedale Garages of Kirkbymoorside to replace the offending item for just £4 . |