Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few people thought I was making a living in something other than fashion , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 2 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 3 | He had never seen his parents as anything other than Mum and Dad . |
| 4 | For one thing he certainly over-states it when he says that pleasure always comes from satisfaction of an antecedent desire for something other than pleasure . |
| 5 | Cologne 's unusually intense art scene began with what Kacprzak describes as a post-war vie de bohème , made possible by low rents in Cologne and Düsseldorf , and a rather un-German tolerance for something less than order . |
| 6 | To base a property tax on anything other than capital values would be perverse — even if alternatives like imputed rents and floor-space footage were inherently sensible , which they are not — and ways to compile and update the necessary data have already been examined in detail . |
| 7 | And you can manufacture bucketfuls of this marvellous stuff from nothing more than kitchen waste . |
| 8 | They are unacceptable in drinking water in anything more than trace concentrations , and there is increasing evidence of organochlorine contamination in water-supply boreholes . |
| 9 | Much of the equipment used at today 's slalom is of no or very limited use for anything other than slalom . |
| 10 | A firm principle with this kind of automatic system is restriction of access to anyone other than maintenance and inventory control personnel , in which case a strict control is kept upon crane operation . |
| 11 | They had also instituted a ban on anything other than accident and emergency operations . |
| 12 | She knew from experience that if she started a conversation with the girls about anything other than business , it could go on for ever , and Christina did not have time to listen to Todney 's domestic problems this morning . |
| 13 | Rachel and Nicky love getting up to their elbows in gloop , a slimy mixture of nothing more than cornflour mixed with water and food colouring . |
| 14 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 15 | All I could offer was a hatchback whose tyres puncture as soon as it catches sight of anything other than motorway . |
| 16 | With the trend towards mainstreaming or integration , relatively few deaf children now need communication in anything other than speech . |
| 17 | You can not be disconnected for a Hire Purchase debt , a Credit Sale Agreement , or a debt for anything other than supply of gas and or electricity . |
| 18 | I 'm so damned tired after the drive down here that I doubt I 'll have the energy for anything more than sleep . ’ |
| 19 | Because Nicholas himself had entertained such dreams in passing , Pogodin could be accused at this stage of nothing more than super-patriotism . |