Example sentences of "less than a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything less than a textual change to the Treaty is therefore no change at all . |
| 2 | The diversity of munition products is exemplified by , on the one hand , the gun and aperture sights for the American Lewis guns , high precision work ( they had to be correct to less than a thousandth part of an inch ) of which 27 , 900 were produced , and on the other hand the unpacking and assembly of the American-manufactured Mercer and Hyster Mobile Cranes , 169 of the former and 207 of the latter being dealt with in addition to 37 Elwell Parker Lift Trucks . |
| 3 | If at first he had thought it would be sufficient simply to eliminate various shortcomings in Soviet life , Gorbachev explained , he was now in no doubt that nothing less than a radical reconstruction of the whole of society was necessary . |
| 4 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 5 | Irigaray goes further , exalting the metaphor of homosexuality as a kind of anti-difference into nothing less than a far-reaching theory of patriarchal society . |
| 6 | But there was a second surprise in Milan : that the amount of energy an animal creates is independent of body mass and increases in less than a one-to-one relationship with speed . |
| 7 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 8 | The standard answer to suggestions that the judiciary is less than a representative cross-section of society is that the Lord Chancellor can only fashion judges from the timber he finds on the list of QCs . |
| 9 | Hughes aims to provide nothing less than a complete account of Shakespeare 's mythological base , the ‘ DNA , as it were , of his poetic organism ’ . |
| 10 | A local farmer is , shall we say , somewhat less than a complete admirer of the railway . |
| 11 | For the term indicates nothing less than a complete questioning of the traditional role of local government . |
| 12 | Administrators also reacted with less than a becoming degree of sympathy to the problems of neighbouring agricultural peoples whose population was outstripping their resources in land . |
| 13 | Anything less than a convincing victory by Graham Taylor 's team will undermine their chances of qualifying from Group 2 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You can pick up an old farmhouse with barns and stables , so forth , so fifth , for less than a terraced house in Bolton at the moment . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He will also call for nothing less than a parallel system with equal legal status under which those who can not accept women priests will be able to continue with bishops of like mind . ’ |
| 17 | He described Windows NT as representing ‘ nothing less than a fundamental change in the way all companies can address their business requirements . |
| 18 | He described Windows NT as representing ‘ nothing less than a fundamental change in the way all companies can address their business requirements . |
| 19 | He postulates that IBM could create different classes of shares whose dividends would reflect performance of relatively healthy businesses such as the AS/400 and RS/6000 , and possibly AdStar storage products , but many observers now believe that nothing less than a full break-up of the company would enable the better bits to prosper and restore shareholder value . |
| 20 | That is no more or less than a sovereign Parliament within a constitutional monarchy should be able to expect . |
| 21 | Everybody talks about the five he had at the end and the last hole , but he missed less than a two-foot putt on the first in the first round . |
| 22 | He said the warlord 's militia controlled less than a square mile of the city . |
| 23 | The big problem with today 's chips , which squeeze more than 120000 transistors into less than a square centimetre of silicon , is heat . |
| 24 | Lord Hailsham carefully unpicked the shreds of legitimacy attaching to the established constitution and called for " nothing less than a written constitution for the United Kingdom , and by that I mean one which limits the powers of Parliament and-provides a means of enforcing those limitations both by political and by legal means " . |
| 25 | It is nothing more nor less than a determined effort by an immensely powerful bureaucracy to silence independent opinion , and to replace it with a censored , frequently biased , and increasingly bland official view of the state of British tennis today . |
| 26 | Perelandra is the most ambitious of the outer-space stories , and the one with the most single-minded theological aim : nothing less than an imagined temptation-scene between Satan and Eve in which she does not succumb . |
| 27 | Most theories were little more or less than an integrated set of concepts or too impossibly abstract to have much direct relevance for social research . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The result of such practice may often be that the actual operative working on site receives substantially less than an economic rate for individual tasks , with resultant bad feeling and possibly bad workmanship . |
| 30 | An aspiring university teacher appointed in his early 20s is likely to earn at least £4,000 less than an articled clerk in a City solicitors ' firm . |