Example sentences of "anything [adj] than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no initial reason to suspect Daine 's Dream was anything more than the usual hacker incursion , too tiny to bother about . |
| 2 | For the time being they could evade Allen 's choice by challenging the assumption that the League represented anything more than the collective security of a group of satisfied imperial powers . |
| 3 | And it was impossible to tell whether her own gaze held anything more than the bewildered gratitude and regret that were clearly there . |
| 4 | Is nursing purely a matter of imitating and repeating rote tasks , and therefore unworthy of anything more than the sympathetic application of a set of predetermined rules ? |
| 5 | This curious misuse of language means that if you book a spot at anything less than the top rate , some time in advance , the station can re-sell it , at a higher rate , to anyone who wants it , at any time before the cancellation date . |
| 6 | It is not clear whether anything worse than the natural virus might result . |
| 7 | Quorn remains a fungus and , compared to our continental cousins , the British are notoriously suspicious of fungi and reluctant to eat anything other than the familiar field mushroom . |
| 8 | But the new channels are unlikely to carry anything other than the bland fare that the BBC and local radio stations now offer . |
| 9 | For these reasons , I can see no grounds for giving anything other than the literal meaning to section 6(3) . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel there is a need for experience in all positions and I 'm not blaming James for anything other than the first goal against Chesterfield . |
| 11 | However in many cases it is doubtful whether these are anything other than the traditional wage system in a new disguise — for ‘ merit ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ and ‘ cooperation ’ , which are often tied to length of service have been used as major criteria for wage increases granted in this fashion … managements have not proceeded hastily towards full-blown wage rationalization because of their own concern with preserving worker identification with the enterprise … |
| 12 | If the complaint centres on anything other than the broad duty resting with LEAs to provide their services without discrimination , a complainant can institute proceedings in a designated county court . |
| 13 | Now , this was the last day of the Conference , er did you have time to talk about anything other than the White Paper ? |
| 14 | Radar can also yield images , but whereas a radio telescope or a group of such telescopes can yield an image of an object in an analogous way to a conventional telescope , a radar pulse from the Earth can not be made narrow enough to select anything other than the whole disc of the planet , except for the Moon where small areas can be examined because of its large angular diameter . |
| 15 | I can see nothing in democratic thinking which allows us to think of " the people " as anything other than the whole body of citizens , minorities as well as majorities , those who oppose and dissent as well as those who belong to the dominant majority . |
| 16 | Is there anything other than the Tory Party line ? |
| 17 | Change , whether it be in the curriculum , in assessment , in the relationship between school and community , in resource management or in any other area of school , can not be managed effectively ( in anything other than the short term ) without also making appropriate changes to the management structures and processes which are actually attempting to bring about the substantive developments . |
| 18 | At root , the educational changes with which we are engaged are fuelled by rapidly changing socio-economic patterns , and the particular political drive given to these at the moment is of much less importance ( in anything other than the short term ) than we may often feel to be the case . |