Example sentences of "no [adj] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than humans — some are no taller than a man but most are substantially larger and the biggest Orcs stand well over seven feet tall . |
| 3 | Hell , under all that gook on his eyelids , he was probably no blinder than a hawk . |
| 4 | A tiny black wallet no bigger than a child 's hand . |
| 5 | Well it , I mean let's face it it is n't gon na be no bigger than a clock is it ? |
| 6 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |
| 7 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 8 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
| 9 | ‘ And so will her son , though he 's no bigger than a rabbit . ’ |
| 10 | Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot . |
| 11 | In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the smallest dinosaur known — of the type that were probably the immediate ancestors of modern birds — was no bigger than a mistlethrush weighing only a few grammes . |
| 13 | The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens . |
| 14 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 15 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 16 | In time , a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand produced a thunderstorm . |
| 17 | The only goose with an all-black head , and smallest and darkest of the three wholly black-necked geese , no bigger than a drake Mallard ( p. 53 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |
| 19 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 20 | It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam . |
| 21 | Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover . |
| 22 | Having finished his dinner the candidate retired to the spick and span little room no bigger than a cubbyhole they had placed at his disposal and , when he had put his thoughts and his speeches in good order , stepped out for a breath of air , a short stroll which led him — as he had known it would — to the newly painted door of Odette Adeane . |
| 23 | Faith no bigger than a mustard seed . |
| 24 | Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box . |
| 25 | The digital AC motor speed controller is no bigger than a filofax . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 30 | 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 . |