Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [adj] than [art] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The displays demonstrate the reality , provide live plants to look at , and assure us that nothing larger than an unfortunate lizard or rat makes it into the green traps . |
| 4 | The morphological nature of the neck is highly problematical and the available evidence suggests that something more than an enlarged intersegmental region may be involved . |
| 5 | I sincerely hope that the hon. Gentleman would pay tribute to the Ministry of Defence for owning more sites of special scientific interest than anyone other than the national parks . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I take the strongest objection to the suggestion that anyone other than the Daily Mirror themselves are to blame for the Crown Prosecution decision that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute Lucy Marshall for drugs offences . ’ |
| 7 | Her battered , motley-panelled 2CV had looked out of place in Ascot Square , where I think that anything less than a two-year old Golf GTi , Peugeot 209 or Renault 5 was considered to be only just above banger status , even as a third car , let alone a second . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're two up in the Texaco and nothing less than a 5-0 whitewash will satisfy me . |
| 9 | Even then there were some books for which not even the critical number was enough , and nothing less than the whole text had to be sampled to determine its average readability . |
| 10 | The following remark , for example , made in the realization that physics was both something less and something more than an objective body of knowledge , was very similar to remarks made by the arts students about English : |
| 11 | It is not clear whether anything worse than the natural virus might result . |
| 12 | A less glamorous version of its origin sees the first Manx cat as nothing more than a Manx sailor 's pet — a curiosity brought home after travels to the Orient . |
| 13 | For one single sleeve , Reid adapted the design of the American Express credit card , to depict the ‘ real relationships within the music industry ; the record company as nothing more than a huge pimp — and the band as prostitutes ’ . |
| 14 | Even with × 20 it shows up as nothing more than an elliptical blur , more or less devoid of detail , though it is possible to see the smaller companion galaxy M32 close beside it . |
| 15 | Sure , the rumours continued , but while Nirvana were n't actually doing anything it was n't hard to dismiss this as nothing more than the idle tittle-tattle that was the inevitable lot of a multi-million selling rock band . |
| 16 | She reflected upon , perhaps only now fully remembered , her sense , in forgiving Jack , of in some way devaluing him , accepting him and loving him as something less than the perfect being she had married . |
| 17 | This ritual suicide is seen as something deeper than the sexual rituals described in earlier stanzas , yet in Frazerian terms , it is itself a ritual performed in connection with the revival of vegetation in spring . |
| 18 | Hilton 's attempt to revive the idea of Lollard influence on the revolt by redefining Lollardy as something more than the following of Wyclif ( 78 , p.213 ) disregards the general character of later Lollardy , which only rarely developed revolutionary tendencies . |
| 19 | Scorn will heaped on the book by people who can not think of the countryside as anything other than a marketable resource , or those who think they are being environmentally perceptive because they call a gate a peripherial access point and a path a mountain access route . |
| 20 | It is difficult to understand Avitus 's comment as anything other than a hyperbolic reference to the defeat of the Visigoths , and the destruction of Gothic power . |
| 21 | But we are always on dangerous grounds if we accept this as anything other than a last resort in the absence of really adequate evidence of evolving fossil lineages . |
| 22 | I can see nothing in democratic thinking which allows us to think of " the people " as anything other than the whole body of citizens , minorities as well as majorities , those who oppose and dissent as well as those who belong to the dominant majority . |
| 23 | However the Tube is not designed as anything more than a temporary tent so it should n't be expected to give normal tent performance . |
| 24 | Though here we do not intend this as anything more than a thought-provoking remark we shall see , in connection with the interview method particularly , how much of the technical apparatus of methods requires conceptions about the nature of social encounters . |