Example sentences of "[pron] less than a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The ‘ synod ’ or , in Latin , ‘ council ’ ( the modern distinction making a synod something less than a council was unknown in antiquity ) became an indispensable way of keeping a common mind , and helped to keep maverick individuals from centrifugal tendencies . |
| 2 | Inouye : I just wanted the record to be clear , because somehow I felt like something less than a patriot all day long . |
| 3 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |
| 4 | Mrs Guest was born to polite society , but broke with convention as a wayward débutante , taking to the stage and sitting for Diego Rivera in something less than a presentation gown . |
| 5 | The letter of Mr. Hassan suggests something less than a fully recognised status . |
| 6 | Something less than a precision guided missile would do the trick . |
| 7 | According to Eden , in 1797 Manchester cotton weavers earned around 16s ( 80p ) , and that from choosing to work something less than a full six-day week . |
| 8 | To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket . |
| 9 | Derrida , Foucault , Kristeva , Lacan , Barthes : just reeling off their names is ( as Auden said in a very different context ) ever so comfy , since it safely defers the issues at hand to nothing less than a transcendent signified : in short , to a star . |
| 10 | The employers ' initiative had ‘ opened the door for a new and fruitful phase in the council 's activities ’ ; the unions must now decide ‘ whether to keep the door open , let it swing , or slam it shut ’ ; the employers ' action was ‘ momentous in itself for British industry ’ , it was ‘ nothing less than a confrontation ’ — the word had become indispensable for all of us , from French planners to Indonesian terrorists . |
| 11 | Irigaray goes further , exalting the metaphor of homosexuality as a kind of anti-difference into nothing less than a far-reaching theory of patriarchal society . |
| 12 | This gave her hope , for it was nothing less than a re-birth that Maggie was aiming for . |
| 13 | He wanted nothing less than a revival of the Romantic movement in literature , only a revival under firm Christian management . |
| 14 | He is after nothing less than a full-blown and not always approving commentary on Irish attitudes . |
| 15 | Hughes aims to provide nothing less than a complete account of Shakespeare 's mythological base , the ‘ DNA , as it were , of his poetic organism ’ . |
| 16 | Additionally , a more complete picture of the settlement at Cosmeston is accessible to the public by virtue of the way the excavations have been interpreted and presented for the visitor : the ultimate goal is nothing less than a full-scale , working reconstruction of the medieval village . |
| 17 | It is nothing less than a national scandal that such despicable practices can take place in 1894 ! ’ |
| 18 | There was ‘ in the English constitution an absence of those declarations or definitions of rights so dear to foreign constitutionalists ’ , but this was a strength rather than a weakness ; whereas ‘ general rights guaranteed by the constitution may be , and in foreign countries , constantly are , suspended ’ , the English emphasis on specific remedies protected by legislation and the courts meant that ‘ the suspension of the constitution , as far as such a thing can be conceived possible , would mean with us nothing less than a revolution ’ . |
| 19 | For the term indicates nothing less than a complete questioning of the traditional role of local government . |
| 20 | Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to bring computers and ordinary people together . |
| 21 | Would nothing less than a scream or a thrown object penetrate him ? |
| 22 | the abolition of profit making and democratic control mark out cooperation as nothing less than a revolution , so fundamental , vital , and transforming is the change it is effecting in the economic structure of society … |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're two up in the Texaco and nothing less than a 5-0 whitewash will satisfy me . |
| 26 | They are reckless , exciting , silly , thunderously loud and nothing less than a teen Sonic Youth for the '90s . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Benelux states , however , wanted a more decisive effort , and suggested that instead of further sectoral integration to supplement the ECSC , the target should be nothing less than a comprehensive economic community . |
| 29 | He described Windows NT as representing ‘ nothing less than a fundamental change in the way all companies can address their business requirements . |
| 30 | 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 . |