Example sentences of "they [was/were] no [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And I , it 's now ten days , they 're onto some scam , and erm , I 've , I had a letter from Marion erm , course , well to say they were no wiser and er she sent me some of the |
| 2 | When everything is going fine for us , and God is in quote , blessing us , when our life is flowing smoothly , it 's easy then to have faith , it 's easy then to trust , but do you know , those disciples in that boat , they were no safer after Jesus stilled the storm than beforehand . |
| 3 | I am a hobbyist of some years standing and I have had my Hatchetfish for over two years since they were no bigger than ½ pieces . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Wilma finished the session by cantering into four foot fences and popping over them as if they were no bigger than our two foot nine ones — which made me realise how far we have to go . |
| 6 | Perpendicular without intermission , taking steps of the same length at the same intervals , their arms hanging useless and helpless they were no better than trussed chickens but for their faces which , even in repose , suggested movement no less than a bird 's wings … . |
| 7 | Men who did not take the cross received gifts of distaff and wool , implying that they were no better than women . |
| 8 | But er they were no better than and no worse than the the others either . |
| 9 | Removed long before the shells had time to form , they were no more than a cluster of marble-sized orange balls in a thick yolky substance . |
| 10 | A race lost , a father murdered , a career on the skids — they were no more than the opening scenes of a nightmare which was engulfing her . |
| 11 | When they were no more than damp , I went down to dinner . |
| 12 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 13 | Oresme 's analysis shows that , within the scholastic tradition , there was room for new ideas , even if they were no more than conjectures . |
| 14 | They were no more than the truth , but now his mother would ring Victoria and Emma and they would ring him and it would be one question after another until he went completely mad and started calling for humming-bird sandwiches or something . |
| 15 | Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia . |
| 16 | She took on Richard Burton and it is impossible that she did not know — quite soon — that there were flaws : she knew about theatrical affairs and knew that most of them were no more than vessels bumping in the night or for the run of the play . |
| 17 | Even the conservatives in the House could not be entirely depended on , for all but a few of them were no more than ‘ Hooverites ’ to use Stockman 's contemptuous label ; they were keen on budget-cutting only up to a point and were anxious that the budget should be balanced , but they had no stomach for swingeing tax cuts — the main article of the supply-side faith . |