Example sentences of "no [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attacks to the abdomen must be no lower than the bottom edge of the belt . |
| 2 | The rate of maternity pay will be no lower than the Statutory Sick Pay rate . |
| 3 | His first excursion from the house took him no farther than the garden . |
| 4 | It is Easter weekend in Paris and , while his wife is away , middle-aged Jacques ( Stephen Moore ) brings home Julie , a sexy little bimbo played by Leslie Ash in a mini-skirt that is no broader than a cummerbund . |
| 5 | The surgeons had to join blood vessels of only two millimetres in diameter and use suturing materials no broader than a human hair . |
| 6 | Her fluency resulted in almost 100 books ; Flaubert 's entire output fits one volume no fatter than the average airport blockbuster . |
| 7 | Elsewhere , I would recommend Ride 's brave stab at ‘ The Model ’ and Vic Reeves ' ‘ Vienna ’ is certainly no sillier than the original . |
| 8 | Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints . |
| 9 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 10 | Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than humans — some are no taller than a man but most are substantially larger and the biggest Orcs stand well over seven feet tall . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For a moment he knelt beside the boy , looking down at him ; again , as in the dream — the reality of it no clearer than the vision he had had . |
| 13 | Hell , under all that gook on his eyelids , he was probably no blinder than a hawk . |
| 14 | Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom . |
| 15 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |
| 16 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 17 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 18 | Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box . |
| 19 | ‘ And so will her son , though he 's no bigger than a rabbit . ’ |
| 20 | Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the smallest dinosaur known — of the type that were probably the immediate ancestors of modern birds — was no bigger than a mistlethrush weighing only a few grammes . |
| 22 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam . |
| 25 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 26 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Beneath this lay sixty to a hundred communion wafers , each no bigger than a ten pence piece , each with four small Xs crossed by vertical letter Ps embossed on the surface . |
| 29 | A tiny black wallet no bigger than a child 's hand . |
| 30 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |