Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [indef pn] other [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of us sometimes need to talk through our anxieties with someone other than a friend and the Samaritans are always glad to listen . |
| 2 | Yeremi 's amazement at being tested in the presence of none other than a Space Marine was spiked with bile at the recollection of how that brat and his fellow high-life hooligans , who stood so contemptuously above any law , had hustled injured cousin Yakobi away to a vile death , crowing and bragging . |
| 3 | For years , China has used a combination of strong arm diplomacy and shrill rhetoric to try to deny the Dalai Lama international recognition as a legitimate representative of Tibet 's aspirations as something other than a part of China . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | for three hours with a sur as the surgeon battled to save his life well I 'd have thought they could have plugged wounds with something other than a finger ! |
| 6 | The list of places with worthwhile examples is far too extensive for inclusion in anything other than a specialist guide to private collections , but a considerable amount of information can be obtained from local tourist authorities and both general and individual heritage guides . |
| 7 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( 6 ) No self-respecting Hooray would ever refer to a female friend as anything other than a ‘ girl ’ or ‘ filly ’ . |
| 11 | Antoine 's failure to analyse his actions in anything other than a purely technical sense is explained primarily by the tempo of his life dictated by an excessive work load that leaves no time for leisure , for reflection , for self-scrutiny : |
| 12 | The normal ( electronic ) shutter speed of a camcorder is unc of a second ; this is too slow to record rapid movement as anything other than a blur . |
| 13 | However , we want to argue in favour of thinking in terms of something other than a sentence as being the major psychological processing unit ; and , as we will see , a more appropriate processing unit is probably the clause . |
| 14 | Everyone is keen to see otter , but again they prove elusive and we round the north of the island with nothing other than a few passing gannet , some tysties and shags and a couple of rabbits spotted among the peaty banks . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
| 17 | Hardly anyone in France apart from the Lafons , and now Ostertag , dares to risk refermentation in bottle and the subsequent deposit of anything other than a few tartrate crystals in a dry white wine . |
| 18 | Research undertaken by Coopers & Lybrand revealed there was no significant case in cost terms to justify changing the current local government structure to anything other than a single unitary authority for the whole of Lothian . |
| 19 | Research undertaken by Coopers and Lybrand revealed there was no significant case in cost terms to justify changing the current local government structure to anything other than a single unitary authority for the whole of Lothian . |
| 20 | 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 . |