Example sentences of "no more [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also known differences in the trappability of mammal species , with some species being readily caught in traps and others not , so that the comparative samples obtained by trapping are no more representative than are the predator assemblages . ) |
| 2 | But then consider folk-dance , ordinarily less developed , formally , than ballet ; indeed often no more developed than ballroom dances . |
| 3 | The breasts of the women were small , and no more developed than those of the men . |
| 4 | You 're no more developed than Oliver . ’ |
| 5 | Rain was no more vague than she had reason to be . |
| 6 | It also suggests that this is vital if traders are to be convinced that trading across frontiers is no more strange than doing business with the shopkeeper next door . |
| 7 | Whatever it was on the bottom of the loch it was no more strange than the atmosphere on that boat . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyway , it 's no more strange than thinking the Store was the whole world . |
| 9 | Total rejection of behaviourist theory is no more reasonable than total acceptance . |
| 10 | Judicial ideas are no more immutable than any others and it may be that the above account is too pessimistic , but it seems likely that any future extension of strict liability will come only from the legislature . |
| 11 | His thoughts became no more definite than this , a wistful longing with no proper form . |
| 12 | As she hurried upstairs to the bedroom , which still seemed to hold Leo 's presence , she tried not to indulge in daydreams that would in all probability prove to be no more substantial than the rainbows she 'd witnessed earlier . |
| 13 | She was no more pregnant than I am ! ’ |
| 14 | For farm workers the North–South divide continued , indeed it probably worsened , and countrywide averages are no more helpful than for the 1760 to 1790 period . |
| 15 | But if a wife 's allegation of rape is true , her motive for bringing it is no more relevant than that of a householder who notifies the police about a burglary merely in order to recover insurance . |
| 16 | He was no more illegal than most of the fixers in this business . |
| 17 | THE PEOPLE in the west of Ireland city of Galway are no more religious than the next . |
| 18 | Perhaps the birds are no more sinister than storks with a special delivery . |
| 19 | What was ‘ not right ’ was no more sinister than the inarticulacy of a maimed human . |
| 20 | ‘ No more ridiculous than what you just accused me of trying to do . ’ |
| 21 | Some people feel it as no more irritating than the sting of a nettle , and have survived multiple stings ; others , who are allergic to the venom , may experience unpleasant effects or worse from a single sting . |
| 22 | Critical attention on the Renaissance during the 1980s and now the 1990s is no more disinterested than during the 1940s or at any other period . |
| 23 | To attempt to encapsulate ‘ pain' or ‘ red ’ , in the sense in which these are sensations or experiences , within a form of words , is no more illuminating than trying verbally to capture the stink of durian ( a tropical fruit with a foul odour yet hypnotic taste ) . |
| 24 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |
| 25 | … the crisis today is that we have fictions which no one admits to be fictions , whereas before people had myths , people had religions , and so on , and a lot of it was believed in as a matter of faith , whereas now everything is presented as real , and it is no more real than the myths of before . |
| 26 | Unlike the others , however , he is presented as wholly admirable : ‘ much irreconcilable moral contradiction did he pass his life among ; yet his equality of compassion was no more disturbed than the Divine Master 's of all healing was … |
| 27 | There might well be a guard at its door also , but , it was to be hoped , no more alert than the rest . |
| 28 | James Dewar argues that smoking cannabis should be no more criminal than watching TV |
| 29 | It can be no more tolerable than one of its most specific forms , behaviourism in psychology . |
| 30 | The critics ' favourite accusation that Neverland looks like a theme park is fair , though hardly a criticism — most children and adults enjoy Disneyland , and the movie is no more garish than The Wizard of Oz , a great children 's film which has been rendered critically respectable by age . |