Example sentences of "no more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it would be no more appropriate to seek to impose change on them , some lender practices deserve comment because of the way they influence the pattern of credit availability and use . |
| 2 | It is no more possible to pass between the dates which compose the different domains than it is to do so between natural and irrational numbers . |
| 3 | Information technologists have no more right to dictate the course of language than any other group . |
| 4 | The answer is simple ; there need be no judge and no moral dilemma if parents and doctors accept that they have no more right to end the life of a handicapped child than they do for any child which enters this world . |
| 5 | No more trying to remember what 's needed or forgetting some vital ingredient and having to trudge back to the shops . |
| 6 | The pattern books also come with a unique LARGE PRINT option , plus a one-side only print feature which leaves plenty of room for a knitter 's own notes ( no more trying to make out what you have scribbled in the margin ) . |
| 7 | She had given birth to a daughter but Freda had been no more anxious to marry than he had . |
| 8 | Advanced manufacturing techniques mean that clay is no more expensive to use than any other drainage material . |
| 9 | Dr John Habgood , speaking in the Lords during the second reading debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill , said : ‘ Christians are no more required to believe that humanness is created in an instant than we are required to believe in the historical existence of Adam and Eve . ’ |
| 10 | Nenna was no more able to deny this than any other woman . |
| 11 | He will be no more able to give an explicit account of the methods and skills he has acquired than a master-carpenter will be able to fully describe what lies behind his skills . |
| 12 | Retracing my steps , I realized with a shock that I was no more able to find my way back to the village than I 'd been able to find the place we 'd been raking . |
| 13 | In London , he was no more able to show himself . |
| 14 | It was to no purpose , however , for Franco was no more inclined to negotiate now than at any time in the past year . |
| 15 | The Fifties graduate mothers were no more inclined to argue with the infallibility of Freud than monsignori argued with the infallibility of the Pope . |
| 16 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 17 | Reed warblers are no more likely to eject a model cuckoo 's egg when it is simply added to those already in the nest than they are when a substitution is carried out . |
| 18 | Multiparous women were no more likely to answer these questions correctly than primiparous women . |
| 19 | So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor . |
| 20 | But Kinnock is a fighter ; he is no more likely to go willingly than Mrs Thatcher was . |
| 21 | While I support fully the RSPCA campaign and their use of ‘ shock ’ tactics , I feel that the horrifying sight of a heap of dead dogs is no more likely to stir people to action than the sight of a pile of dead cows will turn us all into vegetarians . |
| 22 | They can not deal with this situation by cutting quality : in a university , quality is the object of the exercise , and a university which sets out to lower quality is no more likely to survive than an army which sets out to lose its battles . |
| 23 | ‘ I am no more likely to privatise the health service than I am likely to join the Labour Party , ’ he said . |
| 24 | If , however , through planning or chance , the women ended up with a supportive non-deviant spouse , they were no more likely to experience parenting problems than the comparison group of women . |
| 25 | The DHSS 's Cohort Study suggests that those people who suffered recurrent unemployment in the year after registration were no more likely to have become unemployed initially because of a temporary job coming to an end . |
| 26 | The women with hysterectomy , however , who had bowel symptoms were no more likely to have reported them to their doctors than other women . |
| 27 | For example , children who were fearful , withdrawn , shy , had tics , were hypersensitive , had speech defects , insomnia , nightmares or temper tantrums were no more likely to have psychiatric disorders as adults than those lacking such traits in childhood . |
| 28 | Scientists working in a team , each looking at a separate facet of a problem , may well throw light on details , but they are no more likely to make fundamental discoveries than monkeys with typewriters . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's no more likely to marry you than I was . ’ |
| 30 | Inoculated with rhinoviruses , people are no more likely to develop a cold ( or ‘ chill ’ ) if kept cold and damp than if tucked up warm . |