Example sentences of "[conj] less [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their games are , in fact , nothing more or less than a rehearsal prior to the performance of the activities which are the serious business of all the members of the Gikuyu tribe . |
| 2 | The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it . |
| 3 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 4 | Impressive as it is , however , Dame Edna 's show is no more or less than a star vehicle . |
| 5 | Or did the church actively create the canon in response to Marcion and other sectarian leaders whose ‘ inspired ’ writings were either more or less than the church accepted ? |
| 6 | Where , on a buy-in , the purchase price of Target 's shares is equal to or less than the subscription price ( ie , nominal value plus any share premium ) , there will not be any distribution within s209 so no ACT will be payable , but there will be a capital gains tax disposal by the shareholders . |
| 7 | Thus investment spending by firms may be greater or less than the volume of saving , government spending may be greater or less than tax receipts , and exports may be greater or less than imports , but it must be the case that a deficit or surplus in one sector is exactly offset in one or more of the other sectors . |
| 8 | If the goods delivered and accompanying invoice were for more or less than the amount recorded on the order , a correcting entry would also have to be made . |
| 9 | Numbers are serially ordered ( 1,2,3,4 … n ) as are the differences between numbers so that , for example , the distance between any pair of numbers is greater than , equal to , or less than the difference between any other pair of numbers . |
| 10 | The direction of the correction depends on whether the demand elasticity , , is greater or less than the elasticity of factor substitution in the corporate sector . |
| 11 | This was no more or less than the truth . |
| 12 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 13 | Despite the two-child family becoming the average this century , most women married since 1930 have not had two children : three-quarters had at least one child more or less than the average . |
| 14 | This is nothing more or less than an abuse of your professional integrity . ’ |
| 15 | In early studies it was called the residual — as such , it had more direct meaning , being no more nor less than a bundle of factors which can not be quantified individually . |
| 16 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 17 | ‘ It represents nothing more nor less than the imposition of the temple architecture of an extinct Mediterranean civilization upon the house design of a northern people ’ , remarks Olive Cook in her English House Through Seven Centuries . |
| 18 | It is maintained here that the constitution is nothing more nor less than the outgrowth of the ‘ realities ’ and not , as Lord Sankey and many others of us tend to assume , something distinct from them and which can therefore be contrasted to them . |
| 19 | An analysis by the Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) showed that less than a year after the first structural concrete was poured , the project was already £136 million over budget . |
| 20 | Similarly Norway claims that less than a quarter of its acid rain is home produced , the main culprit being the UK though this is disputed by the UK Central Electricity Generating Board . |
| 21 | And that less than a generation after British industry was the laughing stock of the world . |
| 22 | A national conference of some 50 shipowners and local shipowners ' associations held in London on 19 August 1890 gave its approval to the proposal and such was the urgency with which the employers regarded the situation , that less than a month elapsed before the Shipping Federation Ltd. was established . |
| 23 | At lower birth orders , however , the risk of a still birth seems to be greater if less than a year elapsed since the previous birth , although there are two few cases in most birth order groups to make this finding statistically significant . |
| 24 | Section 30(1) entitles the buyer to reject all the goods if less than the contract quantity is delivered . |
| 25 | If 10 per cent more were done , the payment would increase by 12 per cent ; if less than the volume target were done , the payment would go down . |
| 26 | Their lodgings lay almost in the shadow of the Stefansdom , the great cathedral dominating the centre of the city , and less than a mile from the Theatre an der Wien . |
| 27 | Issuing from the loch is the River Arkaig , crossing a narrow strip of land and less than a mile in length before entering Loch Lochy . |
| 28 | That same night , at that same moment , and less than a mile from the Zoo , one other living creature was thinking of Minch . |
| 29 | At present north Belfast and Newtownabbey contain less than five per cent of the office space in Greater Belfast : much less than is contained in the small area around the university and less than a quarter of that found in east Belfast . |
| 30 | ‘ Ten years old , and less than a month to live ! ’ |