Example sentences of "[pron] less than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actual bodily harm must mean something less than serious harm . |
| 2 | They find themselves , for the first time , able to contemplate the two main features of Labour policy , greater independence in the investigation of complaints and a London police authority , with something less than total horror . |
| 3 | That arrangement meant Brian McClair and Gary McAllister turned up to play for Scotland in something less than prime condition . |
| 4 | Naturally , that something less than attractive fringe also found its way to the beach house . |
| 5 | That answer smacks of nothing less than smug complacency . |
| 6 | Even Dr Leary , after his highly publicized experimentation with the psychedelic mushrooms , said he was moved to agree with the arch right-winger of American politics , Governor George Wallace , on one thing , that nothing less than western civilization was at stake . |
| 7 | There are no guarantees with this one , but this is nothing less than standard form with equipment whose effect is to open the window just a little bit wider . |
| 8 | Abandoning its insistence that nothing less than complete independence would do , Congress fought the 1937 elections and took office in seven out of eleven provinces . |
| 9 | He is aware that what he is involved in now is nothing less than Thatcherite self-help . |
| 10 | Maintaining the impetus for change is brought about by nothing less than dogged determination . |
| 11 | And as none but Hercules was fitted to conquer the one , so nothing less than extraordinary prudence , courage , labour and patience could overcome the other . |
| 12 | Nothing less than that potentiality could , so Eliot seemed to suggest , give order and significance to the otherwise squalid and meaningless turbulence of the middle decades of the present century . |
| 13 | ‘ Our Party offers the nation nothing less than national revival , the deeply-needed , long-awaited and passionately longed-for recovery of our country ’ |
| 14 | Professor Hurstfield has however inferred from the preamble that the government wanted something much more far-reaching than it got : nothing less than unlimited authority to legislate by proclamation . |
| 15 | he will be considered to have nothing less than full acquaintance with the nature of the thing and to share in the knowledge of it . |
| 16 | Henry wanted nothing less than military conquest . |
| 17 | Their mechanical problems merely require diligent examination , but stress levels are high and because a helicopter 's wing must rotate to maintain lift it is terribly unforgiving of anything less than good design , careful maintenance and skilful piloting . |
| 18 | The round still proves the soundest of methods : even given limited rehearsal time , there was much security in the warm-up sequence , a point surprisingly made with This Little Babe from Britten 's A Ceremony Of Carols , and by the time we reached Runswick 's final party ensemble not a single face on stage I could see registered anything less than complete involvement . |
| 19 | To advocate a policy of anything less than unlimited release of all information as soon as the investigator has discovered it represents heresy to the media , giving rise to accusations of cover-up and officials being excessively secretive , while the legal profession are liable to take on a more aggressive attitude by suggesting incompetence and serving subpoenae requiring the compulsory production of evidence in court . |
| 20 | The continuing popularity of the 6 hour course was encouraging because for many of the course subjects anything less than this time could leave trainees disappointed that all aspects of the programme were either not covered or covered too quickly . |
| 21 | He 'd feel anything less than full fig would be an insult to the Old Man . ’ |