Example sentences of "less than a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hughes aims to provide nothing less than a complete account of Shakespeare 's mythological base , the ‘ DNA , as it were , of his poetic organism ’ . |
| 5 | A local farmer is , shall we say , somewhat less than a complete admirer of the railway . |
| 6 | For the term indicates nothing less than a complete questioning of the traditional role of local government . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He said the warlord 's militia controlled less than a square mile of the city . |
| 11 | The big problem with today 's chips , which squeeze more than 120000 transistors into less than a square centimetre of silicon , is heat . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As a general guideline it would not be worthwhile for people with less than an absolute minimum of £5,000 to invest per stock . |
| 15 | But this does n't mean that I am anything less than an enthusiastic supporter of Scottish rugby . |