Example sentences of "no [adj] than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attacks to the abdomen must be no lower than the bottom edge of the belt . |
| 2 | The rate of maternity pay will be no lower than the Statutory Sick Pay rate . |
| 3 | Her fluency resulted in almost 100 books ; Flaubert 's entire output fits one volume no fatter than the average airport blockbuster . |
| 4 | These regions , known as tribal agencies , are where Afghan and Pakistani opium is made into heroin , often in laboratories no bigger than the average bathroom . |
| 5 | Cornish cattle and the Pictish cattle of Orkney in the tenth century were no bigger than the old Iron Age types and were short-horned . |
| 6 | By the eleventh century they were generally no bigger than the unimproved Iron Age cattle , averaging about 107cm in height , and they were short-horned . |
| 7 | Finally , drill out the bridgepin holes ( select the correct size — no larger than the existing holes ) to remove the excess glue . |
| 8 | The next job was to plug in the PostScript card , which is no larger than the average credit card , and only three times as thick . |
| 9 | Since output can not be increased above Q , a price P 2 higher than c is required to ensure that the quantity demanded is no larger than the maximum available quantity that can be supplied . |
| 10 | This attractive picture relates the strange BL Lac objects to quasars in a straightforward way , and offers the exciting possibility of looking , in a BL Lac object , deep into the heart of a quasar — possibly down to the central powerhouse where a quasar produces as much power as hundreds of galaxies in a space no larger than the Solar system ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 364 ) . |
| 11 | Use a bit no larger than the original hole |
| 12 | Moreover , Marwnad Cynddylan ( ‘ Lament for Cynddylan ’ ) , perhaps by the bard , Meigant , may be of seventh-century date or at least no later than the ninth . |
| 13 | It is filled in each month and sent ( no later than the 15th of the following month ) to the Co-ordinator/National Secretary . |
| 14 | If it is proposed to make employees redundant , it is suggested that the vendor should commence consultation with the unions no later than the same time as the statutory consultation period imposed upon him by the Trade Union and Labour Relations ( Consolidation ) Act 1992 , s188 . |
| 15 | the Welsh Office should commission by no later than the 1995/6 academic year , an appraisal of the progress which FHE has made in the development of environmental education , and should consider further action at a national level in the light of the results ; |
| 16 | In fact those with a ‘ green image ’ may be no better than the non-green products beside them . |
| 17 | This line of defence is no better than the first . |
| 18 | But I was disappointed , I was very disappointed , when the second night with Herta went no better than the first . |
| 19 | A second explanation occurred to her , one she liked no better than the first . |
| 20 | Perhaps what we believe today is no better than the Sunday-school notions we were forced to discard yesterday and is different to us only because we are believing it today ? |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm no better than the great tree hit by lightning at Thornfield , ’ he said . |
| 22 | She had been no worse and no better than the three women who had preceded her in Alexandra 's life , all driven away in the end by the isolation and the powerful ghosts . |
| 23 | The new laws , which were supposed to enhance by educating the younger players thus enabling them to improve their game and so become better players when they progress to senior level , has turned out to make the game no better than the farcical ‘ tic ’ game played at mini level . |
| 24 | For all you can tell , the new situation is no better than the old . |
| 25 | To her right the blind yellowstone wall of another tall building rose majestically — a perfect backdrop for the dozen or so pink-clothed tables , laid for morning coffee , their pristine china no whiter than the latticed chairs which surrounded them . |
| 26 | This week , so I hear , I have been publicly denounced from a Roman Catholic pulpit — by no less than the Provincial of the Dominican Order of monks . |
| 27 | The Spirit is no less than the personal , moral , active power of the Lord God , and for the further revelation of his nature we must await Act Two , the coming of Jesus , to which we shall turn in the next chapter . |
| 28 | Although some may be quick to say that the vast majority of the book was actually written by Bullett , and not by Freud , no less than the actual intellectual framework of the book apparently seems to have been due to Freud 's input , er , Freud certainly was psychoanalytically trained , in any , in any sense of the word . |
| 29 | The Government will ensure that no less than the existing level of resources will continue to be available in the new further education structure and that funding will be apportioned between local education authorities and the funding councils in line with their responsibilities for securing the provision of further education . |
| 30 | Before the war Lionel Curtis had published an ambitious book entitled Civitas Dei ( 1934–7 ) in which he sought to prove in three volumes that the British Commonwealth was no less than the ultimate expression in the international social order of the basic principles of Christianity , or , to summarize , ‘ simply the sermon on the mount translated into political terms ’ . |