Example sentences of "[be] nothing less than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | The Benelux states , however , wanted a more decisive effort , and suggested that instead of further sectoral integration to supplement the ECSC , the target should be nothing less than a comprehensive economic community . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In his view , the revelation of God in Jesus Christ , and the repairing and restoring of fallen human nature brought about through it , were nothing less than a miraculous new beginning , an act of creative divine power , whose discontinuity from what had preceded it was signalled by the double miracle of Jesus ' birth from a virgin and his resurrection from the grave . |
| 5 | It is nothing less than a national scandal that such despicable practices can take place in 1894 ! ’ |
| 6 | Additionally , a more complete picture of the settlement at Cosmeston is accessible to the public by virtue of the way the excavations have been interpreted and presented for the visitor : the ultimate goal is nothing less than a full-scale , working reconstruction of the medieval village . |
| 7 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , France developed what was nothing less than a long-term naval strategy . |
| 8 | Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to bring computers and ordinary people together . |
| 9 | What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution . |