Example sentences of "[pron] less [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think Mr McQuaid does himself less than credit with that talk , ’ Moran said with quiet dignity . |
| 2 | I often told him — and so did Tate — that he did himself less than justice by being content to stand in Tate 's shadow . |
| 3 | Cologne 's unusually intense art scene began with what Kacprzak describes as a post-war vie de bohème , made possible by low rents in Cologne and Düsseldorf , and a rather un-German tolerance for something less than order . |
| 4 | For heads , other teachers and governors partnership needs , as a first step , self-awareness , self-esteem and a capacity to tolerate something less than perfection . |
| 5 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 6 | So the Devolution Bills proposed something less than federalism . |
| 7 | In any event , something less than adoption , that is custodianship , would be enough ’ . |
| 8 | The scale and complexity of changes taking place in the field of special needs and the necessary transformation of the teacher-training curriculum imply an agenda for teacher training that is nothing less than retraining and supporting every teacher in the country in working with pupils with special needs . |
| 9 | There is some irony in the fact that many schools are on the one hand educating children about healthy eating and on the other selling at break time nothing less than junk foods such as crisps , chewy fruit sweets and chocolate bars . |
| 10 | The Subject of Coleridge 's poetry is nothing less than Creativity itself . |
| 11 | The subject of Coleridge 's poetry is nothing less than creativity itself . |
| 12 | ‘ The subject of Coleridge 's poetry is nothing less than creativity itself ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ The subject of Coleridge 's poetry is nothing less than creativity itself ’ |
| 14 | She criticizes the then Foreign Secretary Frances now Lord Pym for the part he played , he would have agreed to a negotiated settlement , she would have regarded that as nothing less than surrender . |
| 15 | CONCOCTING massage oils , fragrant creams and mind bending perfumes is nothing less than alchemy — your humble kitchen will never be the same again ! |
| 16 | The physical stuff of the universe wraps up the earth with knowledge and communication , and the earth shrinks , and those who do not partake of the great secret growth are eliminated and shrivel away under the physical stuff that is knowledge and communication and wraps the earth with love , for nothing less than symbiosis will do . |
| 17 | ‘ The subject of Coleridge 's poetry is nothing less than Creation itself . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The subject of Coleridge 's poetry is nothing less than creation itself ’ |
| 19 | Honours even might have satisfied the neutrals , but after last Monday 's Merseyside derby defeat , nothing less than victory would do for Souness and in the 84th minute it came . |
| 20 | However , such is the current power and purpose of a team who 'd only ever won four times before the start of this season , that nothing less than victory will do to complete a remarkable transformation from perennial under-achievers to Championship top dogs . |
| 21 | Then the Cid assembled together the Christians in the Alcazar , and when they were assembled , he rose upon his feet and said , Friends and kinsmen and vassals , praised be God and holy Mary Mother , all the good which I have in the world I have here in Valencia ; with hard labour I won the city , and hold it for my heritage , and for nothing less than death will I leave it . |
| 22 | To make him no more than animal is to make him less than man in God 's likeness . |
| 23 | Here she did him less than justice . |
| 24 | The milestone , though , interests him less than victory . |
| 25 | But Orrell did themselves less than justice and such was their nervous frustration that Hynes , the loose head , and flanker Ashurst were publicly warned by referee Griffith . |
| 26 | And the title track sounds like nowt less than Prince kicking a passing pauper 's head in . |
| 27 | ‘ I would never dream of marrying for anything less than love . ’ |
| 28 | With so much land to be disposed of , it was hard to make them put up with anything less than freehold tenure , and so it was almost impossible for the proprietors to make very much out of their estates . |
| 29 | The central issue raised by the appeal is whether a plea of autrefois convict can be sustained by anything less than evidence that the offence with which the defendant stands charged has already been the subject of a complete adjudication against him by a court of competent jurisdiction comprising both the decision establishing his guilt ( whether it be the decision of the court or of the jury or the entry of his own plea ) and the final disposal of the case by the court by passing sentence or making some other order such as an order of absolute discharge . |
| 30 | THE police tend to get an unfavourable press , though in my experience they have never been anything less than kind , helpful and efficient when I 've needed them most . |