Example sentences of "nothing less than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That answer smacks of nothing less than smug complacency . |
| 2 | His shots of the Woolpack Round are particularly rich and those of the Snowdon Horseshoe are nothing less than spectacular . |
| 3 | Samuel Johnson , the lexicographer and wit was among those who , given the mortality rates of seamen and their privations on board , thought it nothing less than cruel for a father to take Campbell 's advice and commit his son to a life at sea . |
| 4 | For me — who had consciously to struggle against the imagaic maelstrom implicit in the idea of retroscendence — to have to deploy my powers in this pedestrian manner seemed nothing less than absurd . |
| 5 | There was no reason at all why these councils should have been regarded as above criticism , but in the context of that period when local government was under renewed attack from Thatcherism , the publication of sectarian , ill-researched articles in the magazine that likes to see itself as a broad-based forum of progressive ideas , was nothing less than destructive . |
| 6 | Even Dr Leary , after his highly publicized experimentation with the psychedelic mushrooms , said he was moved to agree with the arch right-winger of American politics , Governor George Wallace , on one thing , that nothing less than western civilization was at stake . |
| 7 | There are no guarantees with this one , but this is nothing less than standard form with equipment whose effect is to open the window just a little bit wider . |
| 8 | Abandoning its insistence that nothing less than complete independence would do , Congress fought the 1937 elections and took office in seven out of eleven provinces . |
| 9 | He is aware that what he is involved in now is nothing less than Thatcherite self-help . |
| 10 | Maintaining the impetus for change is brought about by nothing less than dogged determination . |
| 11 | And as none but Hercules was fitted to conquer the one , so nothing less than extraordinary prudence , courage , labour and patience could overcome the other . |
| 12 | In such context , between such gilt-lettered cloth-bound boards , the concession was nothing less than munificent . |
| 13 | Nothing less than that potentiality could , so Eliot seemed to suggest , give order and significance to the otherwise squalid and meaningless turbulence of the middle decades of the present century . |
| 14 | His chosen battleground with Mrs Thatcher was nothing less than that sludgy amalgam , the British Constitution . |
| 15 | Well yo you know when I looked round Gordon there was nothing , nothing less than that really . |
| 16 | He treated her with the greatest courtesy , concerned that she should not be tired , or bored ; that the holiday should be nothing less than perfect . |
| 17 | The experience of being on Iona is nothing less than magical and I am moved to tears . |
| 18 | ‘ Our Party offers the nation nothing less than national revival , the deeply-needed , long-awaited and passionately longed-for recovery of our country ’ |
| 19 | Professor Hurstfield has however inferred from the preamble that the government wanted something much more far-reaching than it got : nothing less than unlimited authority to legislate by proclamation . |
| 20 | Paying £40 for it is nothing less than extortionate . |
| 21 | ‘ The way Doctor Volkov treated him was nothing less than sadistic . |
| 22 | Nothing less than clear and unambiguous advice to obtain independent legal advice would probably be necessary to avoid the restraining hand of equity ; unless the attempt to give this was frustrated by circumstances beyond the reasonable anticipation of the creditor : see Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 23 | Many are those who believe they are munching the famed Grey Burgundy snails , picked from the soft , green hills of France when in fact , they are swallowing nothing less than imported slugs , many from the Far East ! |
| 24 | The moves up to gain the famous Bower ledge are nothing less than brutal with the corner crack first expanding to chimney-like proportions then closing again to slim finger-crack holds . |
| 25 | Wreck On The Highway and Fade Away were bleak and enduring vignettes , while Independence Day and the title song were nothing less than monumental . |
| 26 | Even Sidney and Beatrice Webb , in their classic history of trade unionism , said of the Act that it gave trade unions ‘ an extra-ordinary and unlimited immunity , however great may be the damage caused , and however unwarranted the act , which most lawyers as well as all employers , regard as nothing less than monstrous ’ . |
| 27 | Not at all like sad-eyed Jane , whose hair glinted auburn and who , one day , would be nothing less than beautiful . |
| 28 | Vessels trading to India , the West Indies and other distant ports were generally reported on as well officered , but the conduct of officers and men operating in most other parts of the world was nothing less than disgraceful . |
| 29 | The present trend is nothing less than alarming . |
| 30 | That they remain so wonderingly wide-eyed in a business sold on cynicism is nothing less than miraculous . |