Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] less [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the Cid assembled together the Christians in the Alcazar , and when they were assembled , he rose upon his feet and said , Friends and kinsmen and vassals , praised be God and holy Mary Mother , all the good which I have in the world I have here in Valencia ; with hard labour I won the city , and hold it for my heritage , and for nothing less than death will I leave it . |
| 2 | The physical stuff of the universe wraps up the earth with knowledge and communication , and the earth shrinks , and those who do not partake of the great secret growth are eliminated and shrivel away under the physical stuff that is knowledge and communication and wraps the earth with love , for nothing less than symbiosis will do . |
| 3 | She criticizes the then Foreign Secretary Frances now Lord Pym for the part he played , he would have agreed to a negotiated settlement , she would have regarded that as nothing less than surrender . |
| 4 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 5 | And the title track sounds like nowt less than Prince kicking a passing pauper 's head in . |
| 6 | Cologne 's unusually intense art scene began with what Kacprzak describes as a post-war vie de bohème , made possible by low rents in Cologne and Düsseldorf , and a rather un-German tolerance for something less than order . |
| 7 | With so much land to be disposed of , it was hard to make them put up with anything less than freehold tenure , and so it was almost impossible for the proprietors to make very much out of their estates . |
| 8 | Sort of austere and pissed off with anything less than perfection in the world . |
| 9 | The tasks identified for coordinators by the Authority could not be carried out with anything less than enactor status . |
| 10 | The orchestra 's apparent refusal to play at anything less than mezzo-piano robs the music of atmosphere in such magical moments as the lead into the second subject of ( ii ) , and the violins are not quite the matchless section they once were , yet the sheer bravado and infectious confidence of the whole venture carries an unmistakable stamp of authority . |
| 11 | ‘ I would never dream of marrying for anything less than love . ’ |
| 12 | The central issue raised by the appeal is whether a plea of autrefois convict can be sustained by anything less than evidence that the offence with which the defendant stands charged has already been the subject of a complete adjudication against him by a court of competent jurisdiction comprising both the decision establishing his guilt ( whether it be the decision of the court or of the jury or the entry of his own plea ) and the final disposal of the case by the court by passing sentence or making some other order such as an order of absolute discharge . |