Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] less [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many outer estates are nothing less than the architect-designed , system-built slums of our post-war era . |
| 2 | To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's nothing less than a murderer . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said . |
| 7 | An absolutely blatant digression , it is nothing less than a lecture on the whole idea of locked rooms . |
| 8 | ‘ I believe that what we have heard and seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . ’ |
| 9 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 10 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 11 | It is nothing less than the invocation of a two-language model of social scientific inquiry : that of theory and that of research ; that of concepts and that of variables . |
| 12 | The development of creativity is nothing less than the stocking of the mind with innumerable images and allowing the mixture to work as in fermentation to produce its astonishing results . |
| 13 | But the play also acknowledges quite clearly that what is at stake is nothing less than the legitimacy of the whole social order , hinging as it does on a ‘ naturally ’ sanctioned law of sexual difference . |
| 14 | Squatting is nothing less than the seizure of another 's property without consent . |
| 15 | It is nothing less than the crisis of humanism as a religion being played out in economic life . |
| 16 | The renewed mind is nothing less than the mind of Christ in the believer , a mind so under his authority that its presuppositions are entirely influenced and informed by the truth of God . |
| 17 | As for Genet , someone whose involvement with the different has variously been repudiated as fascist , racist , and anarchistic , his Prisoner of Love is nothing less than an affirmation of the love that Fanon envisaged and which has sometimes given the dissident their courage . |
| 18 | The left hand column is 0 and the right hand column is one less than the width of the display . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull . |
| 22 | This gave her hope , for it was nothing less than a re-birth that Maggie was aiming for . |
| 23 | With France in chaos , its king a prisoner , Navarrese forces in control in Normandy and English garrisons established not just in Brittany and Aquitaine but also in Anjou , Maine and Touraine , it must have appeared to Edward that his ultimate triumph was in sight , and it is arguable that now , after the failure of the Second Treaty of London , Edward 's aim was nothing less than the crown . |
| 24 | The object of the Federation was nothing less than the destruction of his organisation by any means at its disposal and with whatever violence was necessary to achieve that end . |
| 25 | He come to the remarkable conclusion that Ardakke was nothing less than the setting for the next evolutionary step for mankind . |