Example sentences of "[pron] less than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something less than a precision guided missile would do the trick . |
| 2 | Mrs Guest was born to polite society , but broke with convention as a wayward débutante , taking to the stage and sitting for Diego Rivera in something less than a presentation gown . |
| 3 | The ‘ synod ’ or , in Latin , ‘ council ’ ( the modern distinction making a synod something less than a council was unknown in antiquity ) became an indispensable way of keeping a common mind , and helped to keep maverick individuals from centrifugal tendencies . |
| 4 | Inouye : I just wanted the record to be clear , because somehow I felt like something less than a patriot all day long . |
| 5 | This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull . |
| 6 | There was ‘ in the English constitution an absence of those declarations or definitions of rights so dear to foreign constitutionalists ’ , but this was a strength rather than a weakness ; whereas ‘ general rights guaranteed by the constitution may be , and in foreign countries , constantly are , suspended ’ , the English emphasis on specific remedies protected by legislation and the courts meant that ‘ the suspension of the constitution , as far as such a thing can be conceived possible , would mean with us nothing less than a revolution ’ . |
| 7 | the abolition of profit making and democratic control mark out cooperation as nothing less than a revolution , so fundamental , vital , and transforming is the change it is effecting in the economic structure of society … |
| 8 | Would nothing less than a scream or a thrown object penetrate him ? |
| 9 | Boy George , though , was nothing less than a man in drag , a gender-bender who flounced his sexuality in the faces of outrages tabloids and ecstatic teenage girls . |
| 10 | Short-term pain for long-term gain — or in his words , ‘ this is nothing less than a call to arms , to restore the vitality of the American dream ’ . |
| 11 | This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said . |
| 12 | This gave her hope , for it was nothing less than a re-birth that Maggie was aiming for . |
| 13 | They are reckless , exciting , silly , thunderously loud and nothing less than a teen Sonic Youth for the '90s . |
| 14 | To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket . |
| 15 | He wanted nothing less than a revival of the Romantic movement in literature , only a revival under firm Christian management . |
| 16 | She had always found being on stage an incredible joy , but this was nothing less than a nightmare , every second seeming to stretch for an eternity , and her usual spontaneity had completely deserted her , leaving her painfully self-conscious , horribly aware of every word she uttered . |
| 17 | Nothing less than a script will do because so many of the key visual elements will only be apparent through the dialogue . |
| 18 | Lily might worm the reason out of her , and then Uncle Vernon would most likely telephone the theatre and accuse anyone who would listen of being nothing less than a slave-driver . |
| 19 | The employers ' initiative had ‘ opened the door for a new and fruitful phase in the council 's activities ’ ; the unions must now decide ‘ whether to keep the door open , let it swing , or slam it shut ’ ; the employers ' action was ‘ momentous in itself for British industry ’ , it was ‘ nothing less than a confrontation ’ — the word had become indispensable for all of us , from French planners to Indonesian terrorists . |
| 20 | An absolutely blatant digression , it is nothing less than a lecture on the whole idea of locked rooms . |
| 21 | It seemed nothing less than a miracle . |
| 22 | I S O Nine Thousand is nothing more , nothing less than a list of management activities that need more attention . |
| 23 | Derrida , Foucault , Kristeva , Lacan , Barthes : just reeling off their names is ( as Auden said in a very different context ) ever so comfy , since it safely defers the issues at hand to nothing less than a transcendent signified : in short , to a star . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Strathclyde and the people it serves deserve nothing less than a commission . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's nothing less than a murderer . |
| 27 | She had known him less than a week , yet it seemed natural to turn to him . |
| 28 | She 'd known him less than a week and was already on to his annoying habits . |
| 29 | It took her less than a minute to pull on her clothes and a couple more to dress the still sleeping Kirsty . |
| 30 | ‘ You 've known her less than a week , Mike , ’ he protested . |