Example sentences of "[art] [det] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its sample was no less than every child born in England , Scotland , and Wales in one week in March 1958 . |
| 2 | Woodland Hills , California-based American Mobile Systems Inc reports that it has had an offer from LIN Broadcasting Corp 's Transit Communications unit to buy not less than 8.75m newly issued American Mobile shares for $8.50 each ; Fleet Call Inc has currently bought 714,286 shares of its common for $5m as part of a previously announced agreement for Fleet call to buy no less than a majority of American Mobile 's shares at $7 each ; the new offer assumes that the Fleet Call deal will be completed as planned . |
| 3 | Perpendicular without intermission , taking steps of the same length at the same intervals , their arms hanging useless and helpless they were no better than trussed chickens but for their faces which , even in repose , suggested movement no less than a bird 's wings … . |
| 4 | As Beswick ( 1977 ) notes , such a development requires no less than a revolution in most people 's perception of a library from that of " storehouse to learning centre " . |
| 5 | Indeed , a study in Hackney in 1990 of the work of mental health professionals working in a community team supporting people at home found that no less than a quarter of their working time was spent on working out welfare entitlements . |
| 6 | No less than a quarter of the non-agricultural work-force was consigned to the residuum of unskilled labour , excluded not only from political life but also from social rewards . |
| 7 | ‘ To experience two within the same day is no less than a catastrophe . |
| 8 | The challenge became even greater with the advent of 45rpm discs , which had to be provided with an ‘ optional centre ’ no less than an inch and a half in diameter for quick-acting autochange and juke-box mechanisms . |
| 9 | One might think that such an ambition — no less than the forging of a cultural revolution — is most unconservative . |
| 10 | The ensuing dilemma that arts educators find themselves in is no less than the struggle to transform reality into something which more fully reflects the astounding potential that both boys and girls have to construct their own lives ; to make their own mark . |
| 11 | It is a phenotype , no less than the beaver 's teeth and tail , and it has evolved under the influence of Darwinian selection . |
| 12 | Christian marriage is no less than the unity of two people , living out the reality of Christ 's coming , death and resurrection in their lives together . |
| 13 | The Normans valued the defensive function no less than the English , but feared it might be turned against them . |
| 14 | He would have been still more surprised if he had been told that the closing of an old railway station would one day move men to sadness no less than the demolition of a Gothic church or the violation of a landscape . |
| 15 | The resulting drab uniformity and melancholy of mood which struck Spanish visitors to the Inca empire no less than the lack of personality of its inhabitants provides an interesting and instructive parallel with socialist societies of today . |
| 16 | This battle , which is still raging , is no less than the fight between good and evil : the war between God and the Devil . |
| 17 | This battle , I have argued , is no less than the fight between God and the Devil . |
| 18 | The advent of twentieth-century mass propaganda technologies and techniques — heralded in the Great War , developed subsequently in totalitarian regimes ( the Soviet Union , Nazi Germany ) — no less than the development of sound broadcasting in France , led Parliament , after much hesitation , to vote the law of 1923 . |
| 19 | In Russia he had been expert with the knout , no less than the sword . |
| 20 | In any case fear of the spread of communism reinforced the belief that Asia , too , could benefit from the treasure that was being poured into Europe by way of Marshall Aid and , as Wolf concludes : ‘ It is fair to say that the desire to avoid ‘ another China ’ no less than the desire of the Administration to avoid further Congressional attacks on its Asian policy , determined the timing of US aid to Southern Asia . ’ |
| 21 | From 1316 when Lancaster 's power was at its height , until 1323 , when Edward once again had full control of the government and the thirteen-year truce was concluded , Scottish forces ravaged northern England almost as far south as the Humber , plundering and impoverishing the clergy no less than the laity of that region . |
| 22 | When the codes of practice were revised recently in response to strong pressure from the police , the guidance was made slightly less restrictive by removing the statement that reasonable suspicion should be no less than the suspicion required to effect arrest without warrant . |
| 23 | Restating those views in summary form , in a case where the necessity to require a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) arises for one of the reasons specified in section 7(3) , what is required is no more and no less than the formula used in the instant case or words to the like effect . |
| 24 | So Nicky Fairbairn , Jo Beltrami and Paddy Meehan travelled to Edinburgh , and to the court where Oscar Slater had been wrongly convicted nearly fifty years before , all of them knowing that when the charge was read and Meehan formally pleaded Not Guilty , he was speaking no less than the truth . |
| 25 | The sentry is claimed to have replied : " Now do n't abaht , I 've got one up the spaht … " but rushed away to get the orderly corporal who , in turn , found the situation beyond his authority , and we were only released by no less than the duty officer . |
| 26 | Ruskin would surely have been surprised if he had been told that a time would come when railway stations , like lakes and mountains , would become a part of the imaginative life of men , and when the sounding express engine no less than the sounding cataract would rouse in them a noble delight . |
| 27 | He was going home , and home meant to him no more and no less than the room where his mother was dying . |
| 28 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 29 | In the 1870s the French conceived extravagant plans which included no less than the conquest of the Sahara , an impractical design never brought to fruition . |
| 30 | My conclusion , therefore , is that the breach of the covenant to reconstruct , no less than the breach of the covenant to give notice of charges , was " capable of remedy " . |