Example sentences of "was [indef pn] less than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave her hope , for it was nothing less than a re-birth that Maggie was aiming for . |
| 2 | Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to bring computers and ordinary people together . |
| 3 | Boy George , though , was nothing less than a man in drag , a gender-bender who flounced his sexuality in the faces of outrages tabloids and ecstatic teenage girls . |
| 4 | This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull . |
| 5 | What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution . |
| 6 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , France developed what was nothing less than a long-term naval strategy . |
| 7 | She had always found being on stage an incredible joy , but this was nothing less than a nightmare , every second seeming to stretch for an eternity , and her usual spontaneity had completely deserted her , leaving her painfully self-conscious , horribly aware of every word she uttered . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |