Example sentences of "no [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surgeons had to join blood vessels of only two millimetres in diameter and use suturing materials no broader than a human hair . |
| 2 | It was as heavy as an ox in spite of the fact that it was no taller than a young steer , and a green and greasy liquid flowed from its wounds . |
| 3 | The girl who picked Pascoe up was a tall redhead in a glove-leather halter top and a skirt no bigger than a broad belt . |
| 4 | Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom . |
| 5 | We crept downstairs like naughty children and Zaria collected a leather handbag no bigger than a small keg of beer from the hallway table . |
| 6 | Only the top surface of the upper chord of the rear stabiliser spar is readily visible and the crack when it was shown to me looked no bigger than a human hair lying across its width , partially hidden by paint and the dirt of many years ' service . |
| 7 | Pointy-Beard was trying to stand and loosen the knot ( by now probably no bigger than a square centimetre ) in his tie . |
| 8 | When the first CPR train reached Vancouver on 23 May 1888 , the depot on the waterfront was no larger than a wooden shed . |
| 9 | The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile . |
| 10 | Guidelines for the future , including a meeting on national minorities scheduled for July 1-19 , 1991 ; negotiations on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures ( CSBM ) in Europe [ see p. 36539 ] to be concluded no later than a follow-up summit meeting of the CSCE scheduled for 1992 ; and the earliest possible conclusion of a comprehensive ban on chemical weapons . |
| 11 | He described the " teacher " of the local Methodists as " no better than a mean illiterate tinner , and what is surprising , but a boy of nineteen years old " . |
| 12 | Thereafter each quite expensive ball-cum-transmitter was no better than a simple ball . |
| 13 | In The Emperor 's Clothes ( 1953 ) Kathleen Nott called the Christian revivalism of Eliot , Lewis and others no better than a revived superstition ; and in a scathing attack on contemporary dogmatics and the anti-progressive views of literary Modernism she remarked , in tones of ultimate scorn , that Lewis 's interest in the Devil had plumbed unusual depths . |
| 14 | But Cecil 's string was struggling to find its form at the time and Rainbow Lake could manage no better than a modest sixth to subsequent Derby fourth Cairo Prince . |
| 15 | Some are so high that they enable their makers to detect the presence of a wire no thicker than a human hair stretched across their flyway . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We are now no more and no less than a medium-sized European power . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In this context , the video disc is no more than a peripheral to the computer , much as any external disc drive might be . |
| 27 | Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge . |
| 28 | I know it did n't hurt , the paint pellet hitting and exploding with no more than a mild flick . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The farmer who sold it was happy to rid himself of a wreck which was no more than a dangerous playground . |