Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] than [noun] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew I worked with Malcolm because he was one of the few teachers I could have a conversation with about something more than homework or football . |
| 2 | She wanted to talk about something other than death and danger . |
| 3 | as if he were made of something finer than flesh and bone ; finer than yellow earth . |
| 4 | Even so , at the end , Irish were a enjoying a romp to hearten supporters who love nothing more than spirit and graft . |
| 5 | A daily diet consisting of nothing more than bread and sultana water ( a drink made with coffee bean husks ) is commonplace . |
| 6 | The act of shipping the barley in Maynegrain was assumed to be sufficient to amount to conversion , but the position is different where the defendant innocently interferes with P 's goods whether upon his own initiative or upon the instructions of another , when the defendant 's act amounts to nothing more than transport or custody of the goods . |
| 7 | This could be regarded as nothing more than fatigue and recovery from fatigue , but it is not . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So they get thrown when faced with a canvas which represents nothing other than form or shape or colour and they get thrown because they have n't the vocabulary , it seems to them , to respond to it , and they feel the need to respond verbally . |
| 10 | He had taken this attitude himself , but was finding it very uncomfortable to maintain , after his long years of quiet in the bush , untroubled by anything worse than wind or weather . |
| 11 | He had never seen his parents as anything other than Mum and Dad . |
| 12 | It is also assumed that a bimbo is unintelligent , could n't possibly have an interest in anything other than clothes and make-up . |
| 13 | She had never thought that her hair stood for anything other than passion and desire to Benedict . |
| 14 | This self-selection process ensures that the Community Relations Branch attracts people with enthusiasm and the necessary personal qualities which make them enjoy work with youngsters , and not one member of the Community Relations Branch we encountered in Easton and elsewhere expressed anything other than pleasure and enjoyment from working with youngsters . |
| 15 | They had also instituted a ban on anything other than accident and emergency operations . |
| 16 | Externalisation or blaming — accepting that there are significant problems but blaming anything other than alcohol or drug use for their cause : " If it were n't for you I 'd be okay " . |