Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a central government department is sued , it is usual to name the respondent as the Secretary of State who is constitutionally responsible for the conduct of the department 's business ; although , of course , the decision or action being challenged will more often than not have been made or done by someone other than the Secretary of State personally ; and in the case of a geographically decentralized department , such as the Department of Social Security , the challenged decision or action may have originated from any one of a large number of regional offices of the department . |
| 2 | All departments would be under close scrutiny , but none more than the Department of Health and Social Security , which was by far the biggest spender in Whitehall . |
| 3 | Yet to the searching eye it is full of ancient treasure , none greater than the basilica of Sant'Ambrogio , of St Ambrose . |
| 4 | It is , I am told , German settlers in County Wexford who are responsible for the Irish Brie called St Edi now being peddled in this country ; the assault of its ammoniac smell brought back to me with terrible force a twenty-two-year-old memory of the Camembert of war-time Egypt which , I now realize , could have been none other than the handiwork of a German fifth column active in Alexandria . ) |
| 5 | He is , in fact , none other than the knight-errant of the fairy tales ( as witness Chandler calling his hero originally Malory , after the author of the Morte d'Arthur , and Robert Parker calling his Spenser , after the poet of The Fairy Queen ) . |
| 6 | The extraction of an additional amount of products from this sphere pre-supposes its growth , which — temporarily , in the present phases of development — is none other than the growth of bourgeois relations . |
| 7 | Is he aware that the right hon. Gentleman who so described it was none other than the Leader of the Opposition ? |
| 8 | The Battle of Naseby which took place in June 1645 , with Fairfax and Cromwell in charge of the Parliamentary forces and Prince Rupert , Astley and Langdale in charge of the Royalist troops , resulted in a great victory for Parliament , achieved — according to Cromwell — ‘ none other than the hand of God ’ . |
| 9 | This is none other than the house of God , and this is the gate of heaven . ’ |
| 10 | This is none other than the house of God , and this is the gate of heaven . ’ |
| 11 | The salt air began to smell of rending , and the islanders in the water knew that Manjiku liked nothing better than the smell of blood . |
| 12 | The left hand column is 0 and the right hand column is one less than the width of the display . |
| 13 | Clacton won at Coggeshall by five wickets , but the champions then tumbled to a nine wicket reverse at home to Braintree the following day — their fourth loss of the season and one more than the whole of last summer ! |
| 14 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 15 | Any basic change in the executive branch of British government will need something more than the type of structural reform of the civil service proposed by the Fulton Committee . |
| 16 | The creation of a database in the school library can therefore be seen as something more than the provision of a catalogue of resources . |
| 17 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 18 | An occupier is in such a case liable only where the injury is due to some wilful act involving something more than the absence of reasonable care . |
| 19 | Surely this was something more than the heat of twelve geese cooking on a summer 's night ? |
| 20 | Beryl needed firm handling but losing father and brother inside four days must mean something more than the prospect of a secure income . |
| 21 | I consider that we have a very important national duty to perform in this respect ; this city is something more than the mother of arts and eloquence ; she is the mother of nations ; we are peopling two continents , the Western and the Southern Continent , and we are organising , christianising and civilising large portions of two ancient continents , Africa and Asia ; and it is not right that when the inhabitants of those countries come to the metropolis , they should see nothing worthy of its ancient renown . |
| 22 | By context I mean something wider than the co-text of any utterance : In ( 1 ) the implication is that the situation of utterance , which is extralinguistic , determines the potential meaning . |
| 23 | Now , it was logically possible that the cue used by the recruits following a dancer was something other than the angle of the dance — and for a while von Frisch was sharply criticised for precisely this reason . |
| 24 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 25 | What makes some people happy for example , is that they are committed to a cause or to a person ; their happiness derives from something other than the pursuit of happiness . |
| 26 | Policies with a growth motivation , for example , expansion by take-over , will normally on their face give no clue that their purpose is something other than the maximisation of profits . |
| 27 | spiteful , verbose and stupid though rock hacks can be , they are at least sometimes driven by something other than the logic of the balance sheet . |
| 28 | Mothers were twice as likely to scold the older children and tell them to stop ; with younger children , however , they tended not to scold but to distract them and try to interest them in something other than the source of conflict . |
| 29 | This saw the common Interest as something other than the sum of , or compromise between , a diversity of group interests . |
| 30 | In collective entrepreneurship , individual skills are integrated into a group ; this collective capacity to innovate becomes something greater than the sum of its parts . |