Example sentences of "[is] no [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The digital AC motor speed controller is no bigger than a filofax . |
| 4 | A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself . |
| 5 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 6 | This has the worst reputation of any ‘ creepy-crawly ’ in the public imagination , and yet its bite , which is extremely rare , is no worse than a bee sting . |
| 7 | It is Easter weekend in Paris and , while his wife is away , middle-aged Jacques ( Stephen Moore ) brings home Julie , a sexy little bimbo played by Leslie Ash in a mini-skirt that is no broader than a cummerbund . |
| 8 | THE gleam in President Gorbachev 's eye is no less than a new Marshall Plan to reorganise the Soviet Union 's economy , financed by the world 's seven leading industrial countries , the G7 . |
| 9 | ‘ To experience two within the same day is no less than a catastrophe . |
| 10 | The AP1-88 is only as noisy as a major road at a distance of 100 m to 200 m , and at I km is no noisier than a quiet residential area . |
| 11 | Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage . |
| 12 | A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along . |
| 13 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 14 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 15 | ‘ Labour 's supposed conversion to multilateralism is no more than a confidence trick to try to make Labour electable . |
| 16 | Until then the Polo is no more than a worthy evolution of a familiar species and merely addresses the most urgent problems that nearly 10 years of standing still have created . |
| 17 | In 1987 , soul is no more than a packed vehicle beating a hasty retreat from what are perceived as the excesses of white modernism . |
| 18 | The theory ( and it is no more than a theory ) goes something like this . |
| 19 | The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989 . |
| 20 | However gifted , a theatre director is no more than a metteur en scène . |
| 21 | Vienna Dear Fräulein , I hope and believe the sad condition you describe is no more than a temporary fantasy . |
| 22 | It is no more than a consistent point of view , which has the advantage that , if we accept it , we can stop arguing about whether feelings are causes of actions , and can get on with finding out how our brains work , without fearing that an answer to the question would make free will an illusion . |
| 23 | But such ‘ telling-all ’ is no more than a form of exhibitionism . |
| 24 | The scale of Fujimori 's problem was highlighted as troops moved to take control of Lima 's Castro Castro prison , where the high-security rating is no more than a wistful reminder of an architect 's intentions . |
| 25 | Subject to these provisos , the proposal is no more than a logical development of the original WEA practice of asking the University to provide teaching facilities through Joint Committee procedure . |
| 26 | The GP in this social world — far from being an expert — is no more than a layperson , with the same prejudices as others . |
| 27 | It is therefore important to establish the reasons why it is no more than a secondary justification dependent on the availability , at least to a certain degree , of another justification . |
| 28 | All that has been achieved , he or she now claims , is no more than a revelation of some primordial ordering of humanity . |
| 29 | Without religion , man is no more than a form of brute beast . |
| 30 | This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone , but is no more than a few metres thick at most . |