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 | ‘ Our Party offers the nation nothing less than national revival , the deeply-needed , long-awaited and passionately longed-for recovery of our country ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Henry wanted nothing less than military conquest . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He 'd feel anything less than full fig would be an insult to the Old Man . ’ |