Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] less than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It offers nothing less than the prospect of giving substance to the idea of ‘ an academic community ’ , unknown since the medieval foundation of the university . |
| 2 | What Sartre needs to demonstrate , therefore , is that if the law of the dialectic works from the individual level , overall it produces nothing less than the intelligibility or the meaning of History as such : |
| 3 | Taken literally , it involves nothing less than a judgment about the competition for alternative uses of public resources , and involves the individual police officer making a judgment about what the ordinary ‘ life of the community ’ entails . |
| 4 | It proposed nothing less than the reclamation for her kingdom of an area 70 miles long and 30 broad , equivalent to a whole new county , the ‘ Great Level ’ of the Fens . |
| 5 | Hughes aims to provide nothing less than a complete account of Shakespeare 's mythological base , the ‘ DNA , as it were , of his poetic organism ’ . |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | This means that the reverberation signal has something less than the full audio bandwidth , but a bandwidth of about 6kHz is sufficient to give a good effect . |
| 8 | ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’ |
| 9 | Under the slogan ‘ Agitate , Educate , Confederate , ’ Cipriani was in effect , giving voice to a nascent nationalist movement in the West Indies , for he was advocating nothing less than the most rapid possible advancement of West Indians towards self- government . |
| 10 | It seemed nothing less than a miracle . |
| 11 | ‘ Strathclyde and the people it serves deserve nothing less than a commission . |
| 12 | Some people wo n't do anything less than the others . |
| 13 | Pool intends nothing less than the creation of a universe . |
| 14 | But a head must in the end tolerate something less than the hoped-for whole being achieved . |
| 15 | He had been speaking nothing less than the truth when he put it well down the list of those he had seen . |
| 16 | For some , as indeed for T. E. Lawrence , this entailed not just the rejection of a repressive social order , but a disidentification from it requiring nothing less than the relinquishing of the self as hitherto constituted and inhabited by that order . |
| 17 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
| 18 | These elements provide the " opera " with authenticity and a resonance which suggests that we are viewing nothing less than the destiny of the human race in the 20th century , and afterwards . |
| 19 | What gives this discussion an additional interest , though , is that it is incorporated into an ambitious overarching historical schema , which aims to ‘ explain' nothing less than the whole development of world music . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've known her less than a week , Mike , ’ he protested . |
| 21 | She had known him less than a week , yet it seemed natural to turn to him . |
| 22 | She 'd known him less than a week and was already on to his annoying habits . |
| 23 | For , as he never tires of repeating , Italians will judge anything less than a semi-final place next summer as a total failure . |
| 24 | For , as he never tires of repeating , Italians will judge anything less than a semi-final place next summer as a total failure . |
| 25 | It took her less than a minute to pull on her clothes and a couple more to dress the still sleeping Kirsty . |
| 26 | Clearly , to answer Adorno completely would require nothing less than a complete ‘ production history ’ of popular music from 1890 to the present . |
| 27 | For the term indicates nothing less than a complete questioning of the traditional role of local government . |
| 28 | England expects nothing less than the first back-to-back grand slam since 1924 and there is little evidence to suggest it might not be duly delivered in south west London this afternoon . |
| 29 | He wanted nothing less than a revival of the Romantic movement in literature , only a revival under firm Christian management . |
| 30 | The letter of Mr. Hassan suggests something less than a fully recognised status . |