Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] less than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hughes aims to provide nothing less than a complete account of Shakespeare 's mythological base , the ‘ DNA , as it were , of his poetic organism ’ . |
| 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 | It seemed nothing less than a miracle . |
| 5 | ‘ Strathclyde and the people it serves deserve nothing less than a commission . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've known her less than a week , Mike , ’ he protested . |
| 8 | She had known him less than a week , yet it seemed natural to turn to him . |
| 9 | She 'd known him less than a week and was already on to his annoying habits . |
| 10 | For , as he never tires of repeating , Italians will judge anything less than a semi-final place next summer as a total failure . |
| 11 | For , as he never tires of repeating , Italians will judge anything less than a semi-final place next summer as a total failure . |
| 12 | It took her less than a minute to pull on her clothes and a couple more to dress the still sleeping Kirsty . |
| 13 | Clearly , to answer Adorno completely would require nothing less than a complete ‘ production history ’ of popular music from 1890 to the present . |
| 14 | For the term indicates nothing less than a complete questioning of the traditional role of local government . |
| 15 | He wanted nothing less than a revival of the Romantic movement in literature , only a revival under firm Christian management . |
| 16 | The letter of Mr. Hassan suggests something less than a fully recognised status . |