Example sentences of "[indef pn] less [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ He will also call for nothing less than a parallel system with equal legal status under which those who can not accept women priests will be able to continue with bishops of like mind . ’ |
| 3 | It involved nothing less than a new paradigm and a new approach to the relationship of theory and practice in educational management " ( Hughes et al. |
| 4 | Irigaray goes further , exalting the metaphor of homosexuality as a kind of anti-difference into nothing less than a far-reaching theory of patriarchal society . |
| 5 | If at first he had thought it would be sufficient simply to eliminate various shortcomings in Soviet life , Gorbachev explained , he was now in no doubt that nothing less than a radical reconstruction of the whole of society was necessary . |
| 6 | Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to bring computers and ordinary people together . |
| 7 | They had stumbled in upon what was quite clearly nothing less than a pagan sacrifice . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Hughes aims to provide nothing less than a complete account of Shakespeare 's mythological base , the ‘ DNA , as it were , of his poetic organism ’ . |
| 10 | For the term indicates nothing less than a complete questioning of the traditional role of local government . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He postulates that IBM could create different classes of shares whose dividends would reflect performance of relatively healthy businesses such as the AS/400 and RS/6000 , and possibly AdStar storage products , but many observers now believe that nothing less than a full break-up of the company would enable the better bits to prosper and restore shareholder value . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're two up in the Texaco and nothing less than a 5-0 whitewash will satisfy me . |
| 14 | Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel . |
| 15 | Lord Hailsham carefully unpicked the shreds of legitimacy attaching to the established constitution and called for " nothing less than a written constitution for the United Kingdom , and by that I mean one which limits the powers of Parliament and-provides a means of enforcing those limitations both by political and by legal means " . |
| 16 | He described Windows NT as representing ‘ nothing less than a fundamental change in the way all companies can address their business requirements . |
| 17 | He described Windows NT as representing ‘ nothing less than a fundamental change in the way all companies can address their business requirements . |
| 18 | It is nothing less than a national scandal that such despicable practices can take place in 1894 ! ’ |
| 19 | Anything less than a textual change to the Treaty is therefore no change at all . |
| 20 | Today , every voice in pop must be a Voice , must measure up , because today , anything less than a raucous tear-blob sounds simply feeble on Planet Pop , must die like the runt . |
| 21 | For , as he never tires of repeating , Italians will judge anything less than a semi-final place next summer as a total failure . |
| 22 | For , as he never tires of repeating , Italians will judge anything less than a semi-final place next summer as a total failure . |
| 23 | The statement said that Simranjit Singh Mann , the Akali Dal leader who had held talks with Shekhar in December , had no right to speak on their behalf and that they " would not settle for anything less than a separate state " . |
| 24 | Nobody suggests you should buy shares over anything less than a three-to-five year period . ’ |
| 25 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 26 | We ca n't send Karen to the boring Isle of Man with anything less than a nineteen-carat hangover , can we ? ’ |
| 27 | Anything less than a convincing victory by Graham Taylor 's team will undermine their chances of qualifying from Group 2 . |
| 28 | Rough , spiky , juggy — anything less than a gratifying incut is something of a rarity here — and steep enough to give that exhilarating feel . |
| 29 | Experiments show that many tolerate a wide range of light conditions , but a few high polar species perform best in long day regimes , or refuse to flower in anything less than a 22–24-hour day . |