Example sentences of "[pron] less than a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said . |
| 5 | He wanted nothing less than a revival of the Romantic movement in literature , only a revival under firm Christian management . |
| 6 | An absolutely blatant digression , it is nothing less than a lecture on the whole idea of locked rooms . |
| 7 | I S O Nine Thousand is nothing more , nothing less than a list of management activities that need more attention . |
| 8 | Taken literally , it involves nothing less than a judgment about the competition for alternative uses of public resources , and involves the individual police officer making a judgment about what the ordinary ‘ life of the community ’ entails . |