Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [adj] than a [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're two up in the Texaco and nothing less than a 5-0 whitewash will satisfy me . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |