Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] less than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket . |
| 2 | The Benelux states , however , wanted a more decisive effort , and suggested that instead of further sectoral integration to supplement the ECSC , the target should be nothing less than a comprehensive economic community . |
| 3 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 4 | I think it will be nothing less than a public scandal if the Queen takes the salute aboard the Royal Yacht far out to sea , as currently planned , without meeting at least some of these forgotten heroes in person . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In his view , the revelation of God in Jesus Christ , and the repairing and restoring of fallen human nature brought about through it , were nothing less than a miraculous new beginning , an act of creative divine power , whose discontinuity from what had preceded it was signalled by the double miracle of Jesus ' birth from a virgin and his resurrection from the grave . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's nothing less than a murderer . |
| 8 | Additionally , a more complete picture of the settlement at Cosmeston is accessible to the public by virtue of the way the excavations have been interpreted and presented for the visitor : the ultimate goal is nothing less than a full-scale , working reconstruction of the medieval village . |
| 9 | It is nothing less than a national scandal that such despicable practices can take place in 1894 ! ’ |
| 10 | An absolutely blatant digression , it is nothing less than a lecture on the whole idea of locked rooms . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said . |
| 13 | This gave her hope , for it was nothing less than a re-birth that Maggie was aiming for . |
| 14 | Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to bring computers and ordinary people together . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull . |
| 17 | What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution . |
| 18 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , France developed what was nothing less than a long-term naval strategy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |