Example sentences of "no [det] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest was at Gretna on the Solway Firth and it became no less than a State-developed new town , south-west of the existing village . |
| 2 | Individuals ' 'ego ideals ' are seen as being systematically transferred to charismatic leader figures , organisations and the values ( including those of family , church and patriarchal authority ) which are no less than a displaced version of the all-providing ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ figure of childhood . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We are now no more and no less than a medium-sized European power . |
| 5 | If a novel is no more and no less than a verbal artefact , there can be no separation of the author 's creation of a fiction of plot , character , social and moral life , from the language in which it is portrayed . |
| 6 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 7 | Supported almost unanimously by her business and financial community , Britain , in her own eyes , was creating for herself no more and no less than an enormous home market comparable to that of the United States and larger than that of the new trading giant , Japan . |
| 8 | Colaba , built in 1893 , was no more than a pleasant , small , English country town station , with Gothic windows , a tight upstanding porte cochère , and a single tower . |
| 9 | This , when I first saw it , seemed to be no more than a pleasant crater , but later explorations by experts have classed it as one of the most severe in the district . |
| 10 | I could n't make up my mind about him , regarding him at times as some grotesque theatrical maniac , at other times as no more than a pleasant , if somewhat mysterious , travelling companion . |
| 11 | There is another function of playing dead that has been depicted for centuries but which , until recently , was thought to be no more than a fictitious folk-tale . |
| 12 | It might have been the man that he 'd seen before or it might not ; his face was no more than a characterless oval with a few spare lines drawn on it for features . |
| 13 | In this context , the video disc is no more than a peripheral to the computer , much as any external disc drive might be . |
| 14 | Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge . |
| 15 | I know it did n't hurt , the paint pellet hitting and exploding with no more than a mild flick . |
| 16 | In the West , the time of retirement for many people is the end of their usefulness and it means for them no more than a hopeless waiting for them . |
| 17 | The farmer who sold it was happy to rid himself of a wreck which was no more than a dangerous playground . |
| 18 | — Wood , paper , natural fibre , cloth , or products thereof , containing no more than a negligible amount of plastics in the product or packaging . |
| 19 | Warnings from the opposition that the government 's ‘ No Tax Increases ’ slogan was no more than a vote-gathering lie were rebuffed as fear-mongering and , better still , as unpatriotic . |
| 20 | No more than a small bullet that would make her bleed . |
| 21 | Broom-Parker had played no more than a small part in the plot to make sure Pendero was beaten , she was certain of that . |
| 22 | Of course , the NME has consistently only really been as good as the contemporary music , film etc it celebrates and criticises , and remains a decent barometer , despite the sporadically desperate-seeming attempts to apply bellows to no more than a small flame . |
| 23 | Even the most significant unions could recruit no more than a small fraction of the workers in their industry . |
| 24 | Nurse practitioners in most of the participating major departments managed no more than a small fraction of the patients each day . |
| 25 | In that situation X , being an unsecured creditor , is likely to obtain no more than a small percentage of the price he is owed . |
| 26 | Important [ but unrecognized ] though they may be to the man in the street , functional methacrylates are no more than a small side-branch in ICI 's acrylic chain . |
| 27 | Assessment would be no more than a subjective judgement of how well the student could perform specific DTP tasks . |
| 28 | In 1987 , soul is no more than a packed vehicle beating a hasty retreat from what are perceived as the excesses of white modernism . |
| 29 | His voice was no more than a faint whisper now but it was as if his words were spraying vitriol on her face , because she tossed her head from side to side as if throwing off the spray . |
| 30 | Gordon was the first to provide irrefutable evidence of what had been until then no more than a faint suspicion : that puerperal fever was a contagious disease that could be carried from patient to patient by doctors and midwives . |