Example sentences of "no [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Canadian National was formed it inherited no fewer than a thousand stations west of Lake Superior . |
| 2 | This deep interest was amply reflected in the fact that no fewer than a dozen Argentine railway companies were British-owned . |
| 3 | Its sample was no less than every child born in England , Scotland , and Wales in one week in March 1958 . |
| 4 | THE gleam in President Gorbachev 's eye is no less than a new Marshall Plan to reorganise the Soviet Union 's economy , financed by the world 's seven leading industrial countries , the G7 . |
| 5 | Perpendicular without intermission , taking steps of the same length at the same intervals , their arms hanging useless and helpless they were no better than trussed chickens but for their faces which , even in repose , suggested movement no less than a bird 's wings … . |
| 6 | The New College book was chosen because it was one that had been donated to the College , no less than a Wykeham Professor , with others from his library for the use of future generations of scholars . |
| 7 | Woodland Hills , California-based American Mobile Systems Inc reports that it has had an offer from LIN Broadcasting Corp 's Transit Communications unit to buy not less than 8.75m newly issued American Mobile shares for $8.50 each ; Fleet Call Inc has currently bought 714,286 shares of its common for $5m as part of a previously announced agreement for Fleet call to buy no less than a majority of American Mobile 's shares at $7 each ; the new offer assumes that the Fleet Call deal will be completed as planned . |
| 8 | As Beswick ( 1977 ) notes , such a development requires no less than a revolution in most people 's perception of a library from that of " storehouse to learning centre " . |
| 9 | If a novel is no more and no less than a verbal artefact , there can be no separation of the author 's creation of a fiction of plot , character , social and moral life , from the language in which it is portrayed . |
| 10 | ‘ To experience two within the same day is no less than a catastrophe . |
| 11 | At the same time , the hectic expansion of war industries swelled the industrial proletariat by no less than a third , there was a massive influx of refugees from front-line areas , and the cities became increasingly overcrowded , insanitary and disease-ridden . |
| 12 | Indeed , a study in Hackney in 1990 of the work of mental health professionals working in a community team supporting people at home found that no less than a quarter of their working time was spent on working out welfare entitlements . |
| 13 | The largest was at Gretna on the Solway Firth and it became no less than a State-developed new town , south-west of the existing village . |
| 14 | It fell even more for geriatric patients — by no less than a third in the same period ( Cm 1513 , 1991 ) . |
| 15 | No less than a quarter of the non-agricultural work-force was consigned to the residuum of unskilled labour , excluded not only from political life but also from social rewards . |
| 16 | It represents no less than a $250M business sector and is still growing healthily . |
| 17 | We are now no more and no less than a medium-sized European power . |
| 18 | Individuals ' 'ego ideals ' are seen as being systematically transferred to charismatic leader figures , organisations and the values ( including those of family , church and patriarchal authority ) which are no less than a displaced version of the all-providing ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ figure of childhood . |
| 19 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 20 | The challenge became even greater with the advent of 45rpm discs , which had to be provided with an ‘ optional centre ’ no less than an inch and a half in diameter for quick-acting autochange and juke-box mechanisms . |
| 21 | Supported almost unanimously by her business and financial community , Britain , in her own eyes , was creating for herself no more and no less than an enormous home market comparable to that of the United States and larger than that of the new trading giant , Japan . |
| 22 | Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension . |
| 23 | All desire bears its histories , the desires of the exploited and the repressed no less than the desires of those who exploit and repress . |
| 24 | One might think that such an ambition — no less than the forging of a cultural revolution — is most unconservative . |
| 25 | Someone — I think it was Klemperer — said that conducting was no more and no less than the ‘ power of suggestion ’ . |
| 26 | The 4,400 attendance was no less than the sides deserved . |
| 27 | This week , so I hear , I have been publicly denounced from a Roman Catholic pulpit — by no less than the Provincial of the Dominican Order of monks . |
| 28 | Ruskin would surely have been surprised if he had been told that a time would come when railway stations , like lakes and mountains , would become a part of the imaginative life of men , and when the sounding express engine no less than the sounding cataract would rouse in them a noble delight . |
| 29 | He would have been still more surprised if he had been told that the closing of an old railway station would one day move men to sadness no less than the demolition of a Gothic church or the violation of a landscape . |
| 30 | In the 1870s the French conceived extravagant plans which included no less than the conquest of the Sahara , an impractical design never brought to fruition . |