Example sentences of "[pron] other [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Rourke Deveraugh had no interest in her other than a passing fancy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Until the 1930s a ruling was in force which forbade anyone other than a French citizen from starting a newspaper . |
| 10 | ‘ But because you have no concept of how to relate to people on anything other than a superficial level , you have a terrible shock when you get into a situation like marriage and find that it does n't live up to your fantasies . |
| 11 | How significant that his response to the overwhelming evidence that the people of this nation want to have some form of democratic control over their own destiny is to propose anything other than a democratic solution . |
| 12 | Probably , like Stephen , you have ‘ just never known ’ anything other than a male priest and so you may , very naturally , find it hard to imagine a woman in that role . |
| 13 | For her it was one of the few instances where Susan was allowed to be anything other than a 15-year-old schoolgirl . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyone who is budgeting for anything other than a flat position is being optimistic . |
| 15 | But nothing and no one could ever really convince him that a world where fathers just disappeared one day and never returned could be anything other than a pitiful sham , a transparent hoax . |
| 16 | By the time that I began to work with Ahmed and Amitha , I had resolved within myself that I could n't be anything other than a Black lesbian and that was in itself its own political identity , one that did not require validation from either the women 's , gay or Black movements . |
| 17 | There is a lower standard of proof required in civil cases , balance of probability , as opposed to the ‘ beyond reasonable doubt ’ needed in criminal trials and Lord Prosser commented : ‘ It is undesirable in the public interest , as well as in Mr Anderson 's interest , that a finding of probable murder be made in anything other than a supreme court . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 19 | This was in the last days of Mrs Thatcher 's leadership and my daughter had never known anything other than a female PM . |
| 20 | In styling terms , there 's no mistaking the new 626 for anything other than a Japanese car . |
| 21 | Make sure , too , it is a feeding roll you are seeing and not any other kind of activity — though it is unlikely to be anything other than a feeding roll at that time of day . |
| 22 | An important reason for this is that it is an entirely partial approach as explained in the section discussing qualifications to the theoretical results , and also because such a case by case approach is never capable of examining anything other than a small minority of all mergers . |
| 23 | It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year . |
| 24 | If evil were only the absence of good , for instance , then the Ring could never be anything other than a psychic amplifier ; it would not ‘ betray ’ its possessors , and all they would need do is put it aside and think pure thoughts . |
| 25 | If fact , if it had n't been for Finch 's increasing drinking problem , he himself would never have behaved on the set in anything other than a professional way . |
| 26 | It had become difficult for him to imagine anything other than a successful outcome to his diplomatic and military operations . |
| 27 | NOBODY EXPECTED The Farm to make anything other than a bad album . |
| 28 | Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley . |
| 29 | Through an amplifier , the New York maintains its acoustic brightness and bluntly refuses to be anything other than a blank canvas . |
| 30 | Given such a state of affairs , the parallels and analogies which comrade Preobrazhensky has constructed could not be anything other than a childish game of terminology . |