Example sentences of "[was/were] nothing less [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his view , the revelation of God in Jesus Christ , and the repairing and restoring of fallen human nature brought about through it , were nothing less than a miraculous new beginning , an act of creative divine power , whose discontinuity from what had preceded it was signalled by the double miracle of Jesus ' birth from a virgin and his resurrection from the grave . |
| 2 | This gave her hope , for it was nothing less than a re-birth that Maggie was aiming for . |
| 3 | Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to bring computers and ordinary people together . |
| 4 | Boy George , though , was nothing less than a man in drag , a gender-bender who flounced his sexuality in the faces of outrages tabloids and ecstatic teenage girls . |
| 5 | This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull . |
| 6 | What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution . |
| 7 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , France developed what was nothing less than a long-term naval strategy . |
| 8 | She had always found being on stage an incredible joy , but this was nothing less than a nightmare , every second seeming to stretch for an eternity , and her usual spontaneity had completely deserted her , leaving her painfully self-conscious , horribly aware of every word she uttered . |