Example sentences of "anything [adj] than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For , as he never tires of repeating , Italians will judge anything less than a semi-final place next summer as a total failure . |
| 32 | The statement said that Simranjit Singh Mann , the Akali Dal leader who had held talks with Shekhar in December , had no right to speak on their behalf and that they " would not settle for anything less than a separate state " . |
| 33 | Nobody suggests you should buy shares over anything less than a three-to-five year period . ’ |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | We ca n't send Karen to the boring Isle of Man with anything less than a nineteen-carat hangover , can we ? ’ |
| 36 | Anything less than a convincing victory by Graham Taylor 's team will undermine their chances of qualifying from Group 2 . |
| 37 | Rough , spiky , juggy — anything less than a gratifying incut is something of a rarity here — and steep enough to give that exhilarating feel . |
| 38 | Experiments show that many tolerate a wide range of light conditions , but a few high polar species perform best in long day regimes , or refuse to flower in anything less than a 22–24-hour day . |
| 39 | He bore it all with bright spirits and was never anything less than an exemplary prisoner . |
| 40 | But this does n't mean that I am anything less than an enthusiastic supporter of Scottish rugby . |
| 41 | There is little doubt Brits are among the world 's most powerful boulderers , but put them on anything higher than an average cellar roof and they climb , with very few exceptions , like pumped , nervous and confused lemmings . |
| 42 | He could not be bothered to read anything longer than a single sheet of paper , and even that with great difficulty , and got so bored when any detail was explained to him that he often fell asleep . |
| 43 | ‘ But because you have no concept of how to relate to people on anything other than a superficial level , you have a terrible shock when you get into a situation like marriage and find that it does n't live up to your fantasies . |
| 44 | How significant that his response to the overwhelming evidence that the people of this nation want to have some form of democratic control over their own destiny is to propose anything other than a democratic solution . |
| 45 | Probably , like Stephen , you have ‘ just never known ’ anything other than a male priest and so you may , very naturally , find it hard to imagine a woman in that role . |
| 46 | For her it was one of the few instances where Susan was allowed to be anything other than a 15-year-old schoolgirl . |
| 47 | ‘ Anyone who is budgeting for anything other than a flat position is being optimistic . |
| 48 | But nothing and no one could ever really convince him that a world where fathers just disappeared one day and never returned could be anything other than a pitiful sham , a transparent hoax . |
| 49 | By the time that I began to work with Ahmed and Amitha , I had resolved within myself that I could n't be anything other than a Black lesbian and that was in itself its own political identity , one that did not require validation from either the women 's , gay or Black movements . |
| 50 | There is a lower standard of proof required in civil cases , balance of probability , as opposed to the ‘ beyond reasonable doubt ’ needed in criminal trials and Lord Prosser commented : ‘ It is undesirable in the public interest , as well as in Mr Anderson 's interest , that a finding of probable murder be made in anything other than a supreme court . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 52 | This was in the last days of Mrs Thatcher 's leadership and my daughter had never known anything other than a female PM . |
| 53 | In styling terms , there 's no mistaking the new 626 for anything other than a Japanese car . |
| 54 | Make sure , too , it is a feeding roll you are seeing and not any other kind of activity — though it is unlikely to be anything other than a feeding roll at that time of day . |
| 55 | An important reason for this is that it is an entirely partial approach as explained in the section discussing qualifications to the theoretical results , and also because such a case by case approach is never capable of examining anything other than a small minority of all mergers . |
| 56 | It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year . |
| 57 | If evil were only the absence of good , for instance , then the Ring could never be anything other than a psychic amplifier ; it would not ‘ betray ’ its possessors , and all they would need do is put it aside and think pure thoughts . |
| 58 | If fact , if it had n't been for Finch 's increasing drinking problem , he himself would never have behaved on the set in anything other than a professional way . |
| 59 | It had become difficult for him to imagine anything other than a successful outcome to his diplomatic and military operations . |
| 60 | NOBODY EXPECTED The Farm to make anything other than a bad album . |