Example sentences of "anything other [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But because you have no concept of how to relate to people on anything other than a superficial level , you have a terrible shock when you get into a situation like marriage and find that it does n't live up to your fantasies . |
| 2 | How significant that his response to the overwhelming evidence that the people of this nation want to have some form of democratic control over their own destiny is to propose anything other than a democratic solution . |
| 3 | Probably , like Stephen , you have ‘ just never known ’ anything other than a male priest and so you may , very naturally , find it hard to imagine a woman in that role . |
| 4 | For her it was one of the few instances where Susan was allowed to be anything other than a 15-year-old schoolgirl . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyone who is budgeting for anything other than a flat position is being optimistic . |
| 6 | But nothing and no one could ever really convince him that a world where fathers just disappeared one day and never returned could be anything other than a pitiful sham , a transparent hoax . |
| 7 | By the time that I began to work with Ahmed and Amitha , I had resolved within myself that I could n't be anything other than a Black lesbian and that was in itself its own political identity , one that did not require validation from either the women 's , gay or Black movements . |
| 8 | There is a lower standard of proof required in civil cases , balance of probability , as opposed to the ‘ beyond reasonable doubt ’ needed in criminal trials and Lord Prosser commented : ‘ It is undesirable in the public interest , as well as in Mr Anderson 's interest , that a finding of probable murder be made in anything other than a supreme court . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 10 | This was in the last days of Mrs Thatcher 's leadership and my daughter had never known anything other than a female PM . |
| 11 | In styling terms , there 's no mistaking the new 626 for anything other than a Japanese car . |
| 12 | Make sure , too , it is a feeding roll you are seeing and not any other kind of activity — though it is unlikely to be anything other than a feeding roll at that time of day . |
| 13 | An important reason for this is that it is an entirely partial approach as explained in the section discussing qualifications to the theoretical results , and also because such a case by case approach is never capable of examining anything other than a small minority of all mergers . |
| 14 | It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year . |
| 15 | If evil were only the absence of good , for instance , then the Ring could never be anything other than a psychic amplifier ; it would not ‘ betray ’ its possessors , and all they would need do is put it aside and think pure thoughts . |
| 16 | If fact , if it had n't been for Finch 's increasing drinking problem , he himself would never have behaved on the set in anything other than a professional way . |
| 17 | It had become difficult for him to imagine anything other than a successful outcome to his diplomatic and military operations . |
| 18 | NOBODY EXPECTED The Farm to make anything other than a bad album . |
| 19 | Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley . |
| 20 | Through an amplifier , the New York maintains its acoustic brightness and bluntly refuses to be anything other than a blank canvas . |
| 21 | Given such a state of affairs , the parallels and analogies which comrade Preobrazhensky has constructed could not be anything other than a childish game of terminology . |
| 22 | It is slightly absurd for people to pretend that the ’ three wise men ’ report is anything other than a valuable contribution to the raising of standards in our schools . |
| 23 | IT GROWS ever harder to see the decision by the three SNP MPs to support the Government in last week 's key Maastricht vote in the Commons as anything other than a tactical blunder of pretty hefty proportions . |
| 24 | Scorn will heaped on the book by people who can not think of the countryside as anything other than a marketable resource , or those who think they are being environmentally perceptive because they call a gate a peripherial access point and a path a mountain access route . |
| 25 | David was warming himself by a fire in the centre of the hut ; he was almost nude and had never worn anything other than a coarse blanket which was slightly tied round him to cover his back . |
| 26 | Even though he was teething , he was not particularly resistant , so there was no reason to use anything other than a plain cavesson noseband . |
| 27 | It had never been admitted that Michael Holly , small-time engineer , was anything other than a falsely-accused business representative on lawful business in the Soviet capital . |
| 28 | The results of this experiment would seem to preclude an analysis of the acoustic waveform by the acoustic-phonetic component into anything other than a single string of phonemes . |
| 29 | It is difficult to understand Avitus 's comment as anything other than a hyperbolic reference to the defeat of the Visigoths , and the destruction of Gothic power . |
| 30 | The many facets of deixis are so pervasive in natural languages , and so deeply grammaticalized , that it is hard to think of them as anything other than an essential part of semantics . |