Example sentences of "no [adj -er] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we walked on , at no brisker a pace than we had come . |
| 2 | Controlled experiments and questionnaire results after 1970 gave no clearer a picture than those before 1970 . |
| 3 | Apart from the grants to a local authority over which the Central Government exercise control and such other controls as are provided by legislation , the Central Government is in no stronger a position to take action against the local authority than an individual citizen — both have the same right to go to the courts to prevent illegal expenditure by ‘ relator action ’ at the instance of the Attorney-General of the Crown . |
| 4 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 5 | We can remind ourselves that , whatever the hype , Saddam is no greater a world danger than Galtieri 's Argentina was , and the freedom and democracy at stake in this war is not ours but the Third World 's . |
| 6 | DRINKING is no newer a theme than the quest for truth or the pursuit of friendship , but the startling originality of Stephen Amidon 's Thirst at least lends it a fresh sheen . |
| 7 | Prices fixed by private monopolies such as these would be no truer a reflection of the market than those fixed by the state . |