Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [indef pn] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ About 50 per cent of our sales are made to women and they tend to buy their men more adventurous underwear than the men buy themselves , ’ says Nicky Lovell , ‘ but British men are becoming more interested in something other than a pair of white underpants . ’ |
| 2 | Additionally , the development of the huge ‘ pot ’ helm , which enclosed all of the head rather than just the skull , made its wearer virtually invulnerable against anything less than a blow delivered with the full weight of a sword or axe . |
| 3 | From July it will be illegal for anyone other than a vet to carry out the operation . |
| 4 | It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family , Marquesses of Bath , at nearby Longleat ; that may be the case , but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy . |
| 5 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 6 | In styling terms , there 's no mistaking the new 626 for anything other than a Japanese car . |
| 7 | They had a son called Michael and a daughter called Matilda , and the parents looked upon Matilda in particular as nothing more than a scab . |
| 8 | I can not simply advise you to go out and buy without trying for the simple reason that it can be very slow on anything less than a really fast machine . |
| 9 | The plan can be attractive to anybody other than a parent making a gift to a child . |
| 10 | The plan can be attractive to anybody other than a parent making a gift to a child . |
| 11 | The plan can be attractive to anybody other than a parent making a gift to a child . |