Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] than a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns out that the independent property consultancy was none other than a subsidiary of the national ports authority , which is a major shareholder in the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It never struck me that every time I cut my finger and the cut heals , something other than a piece of Elastoplast has rushed to the rescue . |
| 6 | To be honest , the evidence for druids having ever performed such grisly ceremonies is very dubious and the whole thing is probably nothing other than a piece of Romano-Christian propaganda aimed at destroying the pagan religion of the Celts . |
| 7 | Looking back to the period between the two world wars and even to that of 1939–45 , any newcomer to the scene would have foreseen nothing other than a future of amicable and mutually beneficial co-operation . |
| 8 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 9 | Seen in his context , which was inter-war Cambridge , Leavis was never much of an innovator , and it is hard to see his critical notoriety , which reached its apogee in the 1950s and early 1960s , as anything other than a triumph of style . |