Example sentences of "[conj] nothing like as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although nothing like as corrupt as the practices of Lloyd George and his broker Maundy Gregory , when a visitor to his office at 38 Parliament Street could buy a knighthood , baronetcy or peerage , depending upon whether he wished to spend £10,000 or £100,000 , there are plenty of signs of a correspondence between political donations and the receipt of honours . |
| 2 | It looked impossibly quaint , although nothing like as appealing as those far-off places of her imagination . |
| 3 | That too might be characterised as a courageous move — but nothing like as courageous as that of James Burke and his cohorts in deciding that the right man to dig IBM out of its hole was outsider Louis V Gerstner Jr . |
| 4 | That too is a long way off , but nothing like as far as the stars . ’ |
| 5 | Some hardware can be fairly portable but nothing like as easy as a bound book . |
| 6 | The base from which this system grew was limited , especially in rural areas , though nothing like as deprived as that which faced Frelimo in Mozambique at independence . |