Example sentences of "[pron] other [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On occasion it may be someone other than the actual adjudicator who has been involved . |
| 2 | Evidence of insufficient cover might include someone other than the insured person driving the vehicle ; the vehicle being used for the purpose other than agreed , e.g. for business purposes ; or the present vehicle not being entered on the firm 's records ( this being difficult to detect in these days of not generally showing a registered number on a certificate ) . |
| 3 | We are seeing , in this development , none other than a new embodiment of the idea of an academic community , and one that is at the heart of the higher education enterprise . |
| 4 | ‘ This clot , ’ boomed the Headmistress , pointing the riding-crop at him like a rapier , ‘ this black-head , this foul carbuncle , this poisonous pustule that you see before you is none other than a disgusting criminal , a denizen of the underworld , a member of the Mafia ! ’ |
| 5 | It is none other than the Prime Minister who , as Minister for Social Security , introduced measures to prevent people from receiving benefit in those circumstances . |
| 6 | And the pirates were so busy discussing the problem , and what they would do with the reward if they won it , that they did n't notice that they were being observed from the window above by none other than the new Mayor and his entourage . |
| 7 | It is none other than the superhuman power which raised Christ from the dead which is let loose within our human bodies ( Eph. 1:18f ) . |
| 8 | Its long-term purpose is none other than the total control of all human minds throughout the galaxy . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ None other than the big chief himself ! ’ he revealed . |
| 10 | Fancy my not guessing at once that the Umpire She was on about was none other than the top man himself . |
| 11 | Thus she was quite close to the bath chair before she realized that its waxen-faced occupant was none other than the old man who , in his eerie fashion , had been so kind in the train . |
| 12 | Elizabeth Mowbray was baffled by the girl 's refusal to see the matter in its true light and more than a little troubled by what she was beginning to see as something other than a passing infatuation . |
| 13 | The aunts would reply indignantly that they only wanted to help , whereupon Addy would shout from the kitchen that if either of them could cook worth a damn perhaps they could be something other than a bloody nuisance . |
| 14 | In spite of what the candidates may feel at the time , there is no stigma or criticism in being allocated a job flying something other than a fast jet : rescuing downed pilots in foul conditions or carrying out low level paratroop insertions in a Hercules are just as dangerous and demanding . |
| 15 | IT was a mild shock to discover yesterday that St Valentine 's Day is something other than a jolly wheeze fashioned by the greetings card industry to steal our hearts and an unfair proportion of our wages . |
| 16 | What Phyllis Bottome wants to do — what , in 1944 , she needs to do — is to shift the blame for Pound 's Fascism on to something other than the heedless impetuosity of Pound himself . |
| 17 | The place is obviously popular with climbers seeking something other than the frenetic commercialism of Zermatt or Chamonix , but also quality routes at all grades . |
| 18 | What instrument do you know about do you think that uses something other than the treble clef and a bass clef ? |
| 19 | A driving curtain of rain blotted out everything other than the sodden turf nearest the house , the view so depressing that she turned away with a shiver , drawn like a magnet to the books on the shelves . |
| 20 | Rourke Deveraugh had no interest in her other than a passing fancy . |
| 21 | Third , it can be helpful to use straightforward simple words instead of using ‘ church speak ’ which means little to anyone other than a regular churchgoer . |
| 22 | Until the 1930s a ruling was in force which forbade anyone other than a French citizen from starting a newspaper . |
| 23 | In these circumstances the leader of the Conservative Party naturally enjoyed a general influence in the Government greater than normally belongs to anyone other than the Prime Minister . |
| 24 | But it is difficult to see how the section 5 restitutionary remedy could be available against anyone other than the other party to the transaction in question or the party to whom , under the transaction in question , the investor 's money or property had been paid or transferred . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I take the strongest objection to the suggestion that anyone other than the Daily Mirror themselves are to blame for the Crown Prosecution decision that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute Lucy Marshall for drugs offences . ’ |
| 26 | It is the case that typical households in the later part of the twentieth century are much less likely than they were in earlier times to contain anyone other than the conjugal family . |
| 27 | Which was their sort of way of making fun of you because you were showing off which is what a native Orcadian thinks any of his contemporaries talking in English to anyone other than an English person . |
| 28 | Nothing other than an obvious desire to be rid of me . |
| 29 | Psychoanalysis has made unfamiliar with the intimate connection between the father-complex and belief in God ; it has shown us that a personal God is psychologically nothing other than an exalted father , and it brings us evidence every day of how young people lose their religious beliefs as soon as their father 's authority breaks down . |
| 30 | Substitute anxiety in the spectator , he wrote , brought about by nothing other than the apparent lack of anxiety in the image . |