Example sentences of "less than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything less than a textual change to the Treaty is therefore no change at all . |
| 2 | If at first he had thought it would be sufficient simply to eliminate various shortcomings in Soviet life , Gorbachev explained , he was now in no doubt that nothing less than a radical reconstruction of the whole of society was necessary . |
| 3 | We ca n't send Karen to the boring Isle of Man with anything less than a nineteen-carat hangover , can we ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Irigaray goes further , exalting the metaphor of homosexuality as a kind of anti-difference into nothing less than a far-reaching theory of patriarchal society . |
| 6 | But there was a second surprise in Milan : that the amount of energy an animal creates is independent of body mass and increases in less than a one-to-one relationship with speed . |
| 7 | Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to bring computers and ordinary people together . |
| 8 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 9 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 10 | They had stumbled in upon what was quite clearly nothing less than a pagan sacrifice . |
| 11 | The standard answer to suggestions that the judiciary is less than a representative cross-section of society is that the Lord Chancellor can only fashion judges from the timber he finds on the list of QCs . |
| 12 | Hughes aims to provide nothing less than a complete account of Shakespeare 's mythological base , the ‘ DNA , as it were , of his poetic organism ’ . |
| 13 | A local farmer is , shall we say , somewhat less than a complete admirer of the railway . |
| 14 | For the term indicates nothing less than a complete questioning of the traditional role of local government . |
| 15 | That would be less than a complete solution . |
| 16 | For , as he never tires of repeating , Italians will judge anything less than a semi-final place next summer as a total failure . |
| 17 | For , as he never tires of repeating , Italians will judge anything less than a semi-final place next summer as a total failure . |
| 18 | But , with projected costs approaching $100 million ( £71.4 million ) and the Massachusetts budget seriously overburdened , Republican governor William F. Weld is not prepared to gamble on less than a sure bet . |
| 19 | Administrators also reacted with less than a becoming degree of sympathy to the problems of neighbouring agricultural peoples whose population was outstripping their resources in land . |
| 20 | They are more than a spark but less than a small fire and exporters have high hopes . |
| 21 | It is also common to say that there will be no liability in respect of a single claim of less than a small sum and then only when the aggregate of all such small claims exceeds a certain sum . |
| 22 | If a novel is no more and no less than a verbal artefact , there can be no separation of the author 's creation of a fiction of plot , character , social and moral life , from the language in which it is portrayed . |
| 23 | Anything less than a convincing victory by Graham Taylor 's team will undermine their chances of qualifying from Group 2 . |
| 24 | If there is less than a certain amount , the gravitational force will be insufficient to stop a never-ending expansion . |
| 25 | Most countries allow their citizens to bring home articles without an import licence , providing they cost less than a certain amount , without paying excess duty . |
| 26 | The last time they were in office Labour said the same thing , those earning less than a certain amount would not pay tax , however , in reality everybody paid out more and remember Harold Wilson 's pound in your pocket speech ? |
| 27 | Individuals ' 'ego ideals ' are seen as being systematically transferred to charismatic leader figures , organisations and the values ( including those of family , church and patriarchal authority ) which are no less than a displaced version of the all-providing ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ figure of childhood . |
| 28 | You can pick up an old farmhouse with barns and stables , so forth , so fifth , for less than a terraced house in Bolton at the moment . ’ |
| 29 | It involved nothing less than a new paradigm and a new approach to the relationship of theory and practice in educational management " ( Hughes et al. |
| 30 | Comparisons between the rugs of certain groups are more difficult because they are produced in such a diverse range of qualities that the gulf between the best and worst pieces may be greater than that between the groups themselves : e.g. , the lowest grade of workshop Kerman may cost slightly less than a good quality Russian Shirvan , but the finest workshop Kermans can be over five times the price . |