Example sentences of "[prep] something [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Inouye : I just wanted the record to be clear , because somehow I felt like something less than a patriot all day long . |
| 3 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | However , as transcripts of spontaneous speech like the one above illustrate , the listener who is attempting to understand spoken language is often being confronted with something other than a string of sentences . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mrs Guest was born to polite society , but broke with convention as a wayward débutante , taking to the stage and sitting for Diego Rivera in something less than a presentation gown . |
| 9 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 10 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |