Example sentences of "nothing less than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That answer smacks of nothing less than smug complacency . |
| 2 | Even Dr Leary , after his highly publicized experimentation with the psychedelic mushrooms , said he was moved to agree with the arch right-winger of American politics , Governor George Wallace , on one thing , that nothing less than western civilization was at stake . |
| 3 | There are no guarantees with this one , but this is nothing less than standard form with equipment whose effect is to open the window just a little bit wider . |
| 4 | Abandoning its insistence that nothing less than complete independence would do , Congress fought the 1937 elections and took office in seven out of eleven provinces . |
| 5 | He is aware that what he is involved in now is nothing less than Thatcherite self-help . |
| 6 | Maintaining the impetus for change is brought about by nothing less than dogged determination . |
| 7 | And as none but Hercules was fitted to conquer the one , so nothing less than extraordinary prudence , courage , labour and patience could overcome the other . |
| 8 | Nothing less than that potentiality could , so Eliot seemed to suggest , give order and significance to the otherwise squalid and meaningless turbulence of the middle decades of the present century . |
| 9 | ‘ Our Party offers the nation nothing less than national revival , the deeply-needed , long-awaited and passionately longed-for recovery of our country ’ |
| 10 | Professor Hurstfield has however inferred from the preamble that the government wanted something much more far-reaching than it got : nothing less than unlimited authority to legislate by proclamation . |
| 11 | he will be considered to have nothing less than full acquaintance with the nature of the thing and to share in the knowledge of it . |
| 12 | Henry wanted nothing less than military conquest . |