Example sentences of "no [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food .
2 Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp .
3 Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea .
4 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 .
5 In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful .
6 The only goose with an all-black head , and smallest and darkest of the three wholly black-necked geese , no bigger than a drake Mallard ( p. 53 ) .
7 ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . )
8 It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam .
9 Faith no bigger than a mustard seed .
10 Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box .
11 Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit .
12 And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head .
13 In shape no bigger than an agate stone
14 He looked no happier when the Kent innings resumed , playing and missing several times before getting a touch to a magnificent Marshall delivery and providing Bobby Parks with the first of two catches .
15 She had some olive oil ; it was in a small jar , possibly a tiny jar no larger than a perfume bottle .
16 I marvelled at it , a frog not even an inch long , no larger than a thumb nail .
17 No larger than a desk diary , the CompuAdd Companion weighs a remarkable 4.4 pounds — yet has all the performance and functionality of a full-sized 286 PC .
18 A scientist tells me : ‘ It will come in a size no larger than a Calor Gas cylinder .
19 It was a scale drawing of a miniature microphone , perfectly reproduced , which was in reality no larger than a sugar cube .
20 Communication should be mainly through the central command and control centre which may be no larger than the project leader and his small personal staff as may be a group of heads of sub-systems or both .
21 " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said .
22 In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie .
23 In fact , I can describe his manner at that moment no better than the way Miss Kenton puts it in her letter ; it was indeed ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ .
24 Let his colleagues con themselves if they wished but he knew that Tech-Green , for all its grand , humane claims , was no better than the monetarist governments who 'd reigned and toppled before them .
25 Ideally the accumulated paint layers should be no thicker than the masking tape itself .
26 Well , nowadays you could get no closer than the wire cage around the perimeter , thanks to the hippies or the busloads of Americans or druids maybe , who knew ?
27 This has the worst reputation of any ‘ creepy-crawly ’ in the public imagination , and yet its bite , which is extremely rare , is no worse than a bee sting .
28 Of course the problems of distinguishing F from C , goat from sheep , are no worse than the problems teachers were faced with for years , when they had to separate O level candidates from those who would work for CSE .
29 One could fly no higher than the signal book that young Lieutenant Pasco used at Trafalgar to send up the Immortal Signal .
30 Success rates are no higher when the test item is placed in context , the chief effect of a context being to increase the rate for the " decimal point ignored " error .
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