Example sentences of "less [conj] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perelandra is the most ambitious of the outer-space stories , and the one with the most single-minded theological aim : nothing less than an imagined temptation-scene between Satan and Eve in which she does not succumb . |
| 2 | Most theories were little more or less than an integrated set of concepts or too impossibly abstract to have much direct relevance for social research . |
| 3 | If the vendor shareholders are willing to accept this form of deferred consideration , with the debentures carrying less than an arm's-length interest rate , there is obviously a funding advantage to Newco . |
| 4 | He bore it all with bright spirits and was never anything less than an exemplary prisoner . |
| 5 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 6 | The result of such practice may often be that the actual operative working on site receives substantially less than an economic rate for individual tasks , with resultant bad feeling and possibly bad workmanship . |
| 7 | An aspiring university teacher appointed in his early 20s is likely to earn at least £4,000 less than an articled clerk in a City solicitors ' firm . |
| 8 | A nationalist government commanding the support of 37 of the 75 deputies in the Basque parliament ( i.e. one less than an absolute majority ) was finally formed on Jan. 22 . |
| 9 | As a general guideline it would not be worthwhile for people with less than an absolute minimum of £5,000 to invest per stock . |
| 10 | But this does n't mean that I am anything less than an enthusiastic supporter of Scottish rugby . |
| 11 | Around the world generally one finds similar examples , albeit on less than an American scale , and there are probably many more not yet known in the world 's literature . |
| 12 | Supported almost unanimously by her business and financial community , Britain , in her own eyes , was creating for herself no more and no less than an enormous home market comparable to that of the United States and larger than that of the new trading giant , Japan . |
| 13 | A lead-only second-hand car is now worth about 10 per cent less than an unleaded equivalent . |