Example sentences of "nothing less [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He will also call for nothing less than a parallel system with equal legal status under which those who can not accept women priests will be able to continue with bishops of like mind . ’ |
| 2 | What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution . |
| 3 | It involved nothing less than a new paradigm and a new approach to the relationship of theory and practice in educational management " ( Hughes et al. |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He is after nothing less than a full-blown and not always approving commentary on Irish attitudes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to bring computers and ordinary people together . |
| 9 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , France developed what was nothing less than a long-term naval strategy . |
| 10 | They had stumbled in upon what was quite clearly nothing less than a pagan sacrifice . |
| 11 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 12 | Hughes aims to provide nothing less than a complete account of Shakespeare 's mythological base , the ‘ DNA , as it were , of his poetic organism ’ . |
| 13 | For the term indicates nothing less than a complete questioning of the traditional role of local government . |
| 14 | Clearly , to answer Adorno completely would require nothing less than a complete ‘ production history ’ of popular music from 1890 to the present . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I think it will be nothing less than a public scandal if the Queen takes the salute aboard the Royal Yacht far out to sea , as currently planned , without meeting at least some of these forgotten heroes in person . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're two up in the Texaco and nothing less than a 5-0 whitewash will satisfy me . |
| 19 | Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel . |
| 20 | Lord Hailsham carefully unpicked the shreds of legitimacy attaching to the established constitution and called for " nothing less than a written constitution for the United Kingdom , and by that I mean one which limits the powers of Parliament and-provides a means of enforcing those limitations both by political and by legal means " . |
| 21 | He described Windows NT as representing ‘ nothing less than a fundamental change in the way all companies can address their business requirements . |
| 22 | He described Windows NT as representing ‘ nothing less than a fundamental change in the way all companies can address their business requirements . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is nothing less than a national scandal that such despicable practices can take place in 1894 ! ’ |