Example sentences of "[noun] [be] no [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history of jazz and rock is no less littered with tragic deaths , breakdowns and martyrdoms — from six Beiderbecke and Charlie Parker to John Lennon , Janis Joplin and Sid Vicious — than that of the mainstream modernist arts . |
| 2 | The breach of the special trust that exists between a child and a parent is no less violated where sexual acts other than vaginal penetration are induced or performed . |
| 3 | This plan was no sloppily organized affair , aware as we were of the lengths to which threatened men will go to protect their most prized territory . |
| 4 | It could be argued that in societies where the capitalist ethos is paramount the criminal is no less entitled to gain commercial advantage from his or her lawful activity than any other member of the community and that it should be the market which decides whether or not criminals should profit . |
| 5 | ‘ But when the mortal race grew so great , child , wonders were no more seen in the world ; Undry was lost , and even the Glass Castle was gone from the west . |
| 6 | A person is no more entitled to sue in respect of loss which he suffers by reason of a tort committed against someone else than he is entitled to sue in respect of loss which he suffers by reason of breach of a contract to which he is not a party . |
| 7 | The wife is no less entitled to share in the family income just because she has assumed responsibilities in the ‘ non-profit ’ segment . |
| 8 | Niki 's three hard-earned points made the score 64 to 47 and the race was no sooner ended than the Ferrari dirty-tricks brigade was at work again in Paris , wrapping up their exclusion of Hunt from the podium at Brands Hatch . |
| 9 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 10 | Mercury 's no nearer see |
| 11 | His private life was no more settled . |
| 12 | Maybe the Sovtelexport agency is no better supplied these days than Russia 's food shops . |
| 13 | Of course I knew that , in its practical effects , our bombing was no more confined to military objectives than was that of the Germans . |
| 14 | Any version of the resulting constitution which assumes the contrary is no more entitled to respect than the argument that the United Kingdom has lacked constitutional government since King James II threw the Great Seal into the Thames . |
| 15 | Consequently , in the early modern period , gable-lidded wooden coffins were no more restricted to any one area of the country than , say , the lead anthropoid type used for vault deposit . |
| 16 | He soon discovered that the Czechs were no better organised . |
| 17 | Frequently the balance is no sooner found than upset again . |
| 18 | But this ringing declaration is no sooner issued than it has to be qualified virtually out of existence . |