Example sentences of "[pron] less [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The left hand column is 0 and the right hand column is one less than the width of the display . |
| 2 | It will be appreciated that something less than the sanctity which attaches to completion in England exists in France … to resort to the courts to enforce a contract would be a rare and tediously long process and is hardly considered in textbooks as a remedy . |
| 3 | With France in chaos , its king a prisoner , Navarrese forces in control in Normandy and English garrisons established not just in Brittany and Aquitaine but also in Anjou , Maine and Touraine , it must have appeared to Edward that his ultimate triumph was in sight , and it is arguable that now , after the failure of the Second Treaty of London , Edward 's aim was nothing less than the crown . |
| 4 | Many outer estates are nothing less than the architect-designed , system-built slums of our post-war era . |
| 5 | When , in Frankfurt in October , the talks were foundering , North called it ‘ a great tragedy for those of us who live on this Planet Earth ’ ; nothing less than the misalignment of two spheres that had been about to dance in harmonious orbit . |
| 6 | But the play also acknowledges quite clearly that what is at stake is nothing less than the legitimacy of the whole social order , hinging as it does on a ‘ naturally ’ sanctioned law of sexual difference . |
| 7 | The European Political Community was not to be just a third community , but nothing less than the beginning of a comprehensive federation to which the ECSC and EDC would be subordinated . |
| 8 | ‘ I believe that what we have heard and seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . ’ |
| 9 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 10 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 11 | It is nothing less than the invocation of a two-language model of social scientific inquiry : that of theory and that of research ; that of concepts and that of variables . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | The development of creativity is nothing less than the stocking of the mind with innumerable images and allowing the mixture to work as in fermentation to produce its astonishing results . |
| 14 | But if SEAC can be persuaded to give parity of esteem to the assessment of cross-curricular themes within subjects , and better still , to revise syllabuses when an overall plan does eventually emerge , much will have been achieved — in fact , nothing less than the coherence and purpose educators seek . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It supplied him with nothing less than the key to a fresh overall grasp of theology which was able to cope with the most serious challenges proffered in the previous century . |
| 17 | Ultimately , Acts offers a more or less reliable historical account of Paul 's dispute with the Nazarean Party , which would culminate in nothing less than the creation of an entirely new religion . |
| 18 | Pool intends nothing less than the creation of a universe . |
| 19 | The renewed mind is nothing less than the mind of Christ in the believer , a mind so under his authority that its presuppositions are entirely influenced and informed by the truth of God . |
| 20 | The alchemist 's work amounted to nothing less than the redemption of the physical world . |
| 21 | Nothing less than the future of Mankind is at stake ! |
| 22 | Nothing less than the aim of a full conglomeration of the living and working conditions of all European Community citizens — who will remain patriotic citizens of their own member states — will satisfy most citizens and electors in the various countries as their own national elections occur and as the European Parliament elections occur . |
| 23 | The object of the Federation was nothing less than the destruction of his organisation by any means at its disposal and with whatever violence was necessary to achieve that end . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This amounts to nothing less than the extension of the nomenklatura system to intrabloc relations . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had been speaking nothing less than the truth when he put it well down the list of those he had seen . |
| 28 | It is nothing less than the crisis of humanism as a religion being played out in economic life . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She is visited by a Doe , which radiates sanctity ; the point of the poem , says Wordsworth , is ‘ nothing less than the Apotheosis of the Animal ’ . |