Example sentences of "no [adj] than [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tiny lady in purple looking after the money , 78 years old and no bigger than twopennorth of copper , was Jess Wilson who turned out to have been a British clay pigeon champion many years ago . |
| 2 | They are no bigger than grains of rice . |
| 3 | Prohibition of drugs , they say , works no better than prohibition of alcohol did in the United States . |
| 4 | He 'd have to say yes , because he 's sorry for us , I heard him tell Richard we were no better than waifs of the storm , and we should ruin the upholstery , and be taking advantage of his kindness . " |
| 5 | It was also carried on in some few villages : fulling mills operated at East Hendred , near Wantage , Brimpton and Colthorp , as well as one at Bagnor owned by no less than Jack of Newbury himself . |
| 6 | The purist will point out that every aircraft accident results from human error of some kind ; even the most complex technical failure has its origin in the work of a designer , manufacturer or maintenance engineer somewhere , and so-called ‘ acts of God ’ such as structural failure in extreme turbulence beyond the limits of airworthiness criteria are no more than failures of airworthiness engineers to assess the limits correctly . |
| 7 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 8 | Often the timbers were no more than columns of sort of dampish dust because they had n't been able to breathe in this kind of brick envelope . |
| 9 | Outside his own domain ( the Ile-de-France ) the king often had no more than powers of general protection . |
| 10 | The desk was anonymous and modern , blockboard veneered with mahogany , the legs no more than sticks of black metal . |
| 11 | All these may be no more than attempts of testing control while there may be an underlying awareness that all is not well . |
| 12 | What is strange about this is that phonemes are no more than elements of meaning but kinship terms also represent real relationships lived by people . |
| 13 | ‘ Punishment ’ may be no more than withdrawal of rewards . |
| 14 | Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see . |
| 15 | The schoolteacher realized that his guests were tongue-tied in this strange place and , after a few openings had brought no more than murmurs of self-conscious or self-absorbed politeness , he did what he had found best to do on such occasions . |
| 16 | Heartened by the thought that all the rumblings within her were no more than spasms of ill-digested curry , she walked out from the Khyber fort that was her home , and with my father beside her , tapped her chilblains to the pipes of the Black Watch and admired the wild Pathans cleaning their rifles high on the hillside . |
| 17 | It has even been held that presence remains no more than evidence of encouragement even when it is accompanied by a secret intention to help if necessary one of the participants in an affray . |
| 18 | All the anger she had ever felt seemed to shrink into no more than fits of petty temper in the face of what she was feeling now . |
| 19 | They 're no more than extensions of their machines , hands to do the computer 's will . |
| 20 | All right , it may be said , to say ‘ I know ’ and ‘ I remember ’ and ‘ I hope ’ is to do something ; but nevertheless there are some utterances which are no more than expressions of mental states , namely when the mental states in question are simply sensations , such as aches and pains . |
| 21 | Some say he is now no more than mayor of Mogadishu , retaining only the loyalty of his own Marehan clan and other Darode tribes . |
| 22 | Or they may be no more than symptoms of a chemical fault in the consciousness-generator , and of no greater significance than that . |
| 23 | Their compositions fall into two major groups : copper , usually with no more than traces of other elements ; and alloys , either tin-bronze or leaded tin-bronze . |
| 24 | The earliest stations were no more than collections of weatherboard huts , similar to a contemporary group of stores . |
| 25 | La Doriclea ( 1645 ) is notable for its number of choral scenes , which were clearly sung by genuine choruses — unlike the cori which were commonly no more than ensembles of soloists . |
| 26 | Of the others — and this is no more than reportage of answers to the question - the ambulance services emerge reasonably well , in that they allow service by right of assessment . |
| 27 | Higher public spending , together with lower tax revenues , mean that the UK is now outside the Maastricht target range for EC fiscal convergence , namely a PSBR no higher than 3% of GDP . |