Example sentences of "it [was/were] no [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 2 | and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems |
| 3 | By now few proposals could be judged on their merits , only according to which national group put them forward ( or rather , each proposal was identified as if it were no more than the product of a national group ) . |
| 4 | Nor would the view serve any purpose , including the purpose for which it was devised , if it were no more than the idea that particular episodes of consciousness-say desiring-can be identified by their causal roles , where such identification does not give us their nature , or all of their nature . |
| 5 | Out across the water , the end of the lake had not yet emerged from the mist , and the mountains above it were no more than a delicate shadow of grey against a deep grey sky . |
| 6 | But to press into service , as though it were no more than a compendium of useful organs , the body of a servant , a friend — and a friend , at that , who died for a crime attributable to one 's own negligence — well , this moral madness placed him beyond human consideration . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Still it was no good if you were n't happy . ’ |
| 9 | Even if he still felt the same it was no good if I was going to drive myself mad by becoming obsessive . |
| 10 | Burun cursed , and Rostov saw that the straw circle had been moved back and turned sideways so that it was no wider than a man 's forearm . |
| 11 | It was no worse than leaves falling from the trees in autumn . |
| 12 | But both knew that the Aristotle File was too important — too potentially damaging to the Seven — for Berdichev to have kept it to himself : for it was no less than the true history of Chung Kuo ; the version of events the tyrant Tsao Ch'un had buried beneath his own . |
| 13 | Then , as his eyes grew accustomed , he saw that it was no darker than on any summer evening after heavy rain . |
| 14 | Surely it was no later than the winter of 1817 ? |
| 15 | It was no more than a shadow on his deepening melancholy . |
| 16 | In retrospect I think it was no more than the truth . |
| 17 | It was no more than the truth . |
| 18 | It was no more than a wooden shed , with shelves layered round the walls , and a counter . |
| 19 | The pressure of legal penalties , not only against pagans but eventually also against heretics , schismatics , and Jews , no doubt had a part to play ; but to judge by the extent to which Christian mobs could get their way without restraint years before the emperors ' coercive legislation , enacted in the years after 390 , it was no more than a minor part . |
| 20 | It was no more than the truth but showed , surely that her sister was not forgetting the fact . |
| 21 | For most horses it 's a big fence , but to him it was no more than a hurdle . |
| 22 | Cam had a vague memory of a glamorous ‘ aunt ’ , who had once taken a remote interest in his father , but it was no more than a shadow . |
| 23 | And if her father 's influence had created the opening for her , it was no more than was indispensable in this male-dominated society . |
| 24 | It was no more than a change of emphasis , but it emboldened the opposition . |
| 25 | In the original portrait it could be vaguely made out as a kind of craggy wild place ; in this photographic reproduction it was no more than thickenings and glimmerings in the black . |
| 26 | It was no more than a ticket booth . |
| 27 | To the extent that freedom of expression figured at all , it was no more than as an implicit principle sitting silently in the gaps between the words . |
| 28 | It had a resale value , even if it was no more than a few lire . |
| 29 | Sometimes it was no more than a retaining fee ; sometimes , like a normal feudal holding , it paid the knight for some period of service . |
| 30 | Maybe it was no more than another way of affirming its life . |