Example sentences of "[indef pn] less than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reflected upon , perhaps only now fully remembered , her sense , in forgiving Jack , of in some way devaluing him , accepting him and loving him as something less than the perfect being she had married . |
| 2 | But we can now see that the apocalyptic interpretation of history emerged from the confrontation with the Greeks about 165 B.C. If II Maccabees reveals a true aspect of the activities of Antiochus IV by stressing the cooperation of Hellenizing Jews , this is something less than the whole truth . |
| 3 | ‘ Structural causality ’ , on this view , is something less than the rigorous determination of a specific effect ; instead , it is conceived as the production of conditions and constraints within which diverse , but not unlimited , alternative courses of political action and development are possible . |
| 4 | But a head must in the end tolerate something less than the hoped-for whole being achieved . |
| 5 | Miss Marple is , in fact ( quiet-mannered village pussy though she was ) , an example of nothing less than the Great Detective . |
| 6 | After Pentecost , they became assured that their experience of God 's activity in their midst and in their mission was nothing less than the continued work and presence of Jesus among them . |
| 7 | Even then there were some books for which not even the critical number was enough , and nothing less than the whole text had to be sampled to determine its average readability . |
| 8 | What gives this discussion an additional interest , though , is that it is incorporated into an ambitious overarching historical schema , which aims to ‘ explain' nothing less than the whole development of world music . |
| 9 | Christian presuppositions are nothing less than the whole truth of who God is and what he has done for us . |
| 10 | This curious misuse of language means that if you book a spot at anything less than the top rate , some time in advance , the station can re-sell it , at a higher rate , to anyone who wants it , at any time before the cancellation date . |