Example sentences of "[pron] other than the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | None other than the greatest mathematician in the world . |
| 6 | For the actual conquest of the elusive Mort Homme , none other than the elder brother of the Commander-in-Chief had been selected ; General of the Cavalry , Eugene von Falkenhayn , commander of the XXII Reserve Corps , and childhood tutor to the Crown Prince . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What instrument do you know about do you think that uses something other than the treble clef and a bass clef ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Substitute anxiety in the spectator , he wrote , brought about by nothing other than the apparent lack of anxiety in the image . |
| 21 | The gentlest way of doing this is to use the effect of the deprivation of something desired , and where the training of children is concerned , that something need be nothing other than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love . |
| 22 | Since industrial anarchy was nothing other than the other side of the coin of the rapidly rising crime levels , both would be defeated by tough measures which would restore to the citizen a feeling of security and freedom . |
| 23 | Nothing other than the whole theory is conclusively falsified by untoward experience . |
| 24 | Quorn remains a fungus and , compared to our continental cousins , the British are notoriously suspicious of fungi and reluctant to eat anything other than the familiar field mushroom . |
| 25 | But the new channels are unlikely to carry anything other than the bland fare that the BBC and local radio stations now offer . |
| 26 | For these reasons , I can see no grounds for giving anything other than the literal meaning to section 6(3) . |
| 27 | ‘ I feel there is a need for experience in all positions and I 'm not blaming James for anything other than the first goal against Chesterfield . |
| 28 | However in many cases it is doubtful whether these are anything other than the traditional wage system in a new disguise — for ‘ merit ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ and ‘ cooperation ’ , which are often tied to length of service have been used as major criteria for wage increases granted in this fashion … managements have not proceeded hastily towards full-blown wage rationalization because of their own concern with preserving worker identification with the enterprise … |
| 29 | If the complaint centres on anything other than the broad duty resting with LEAs to provide their services without discrimination , a complainant can institute proceedings in a designated county court . |
| 30 | Now , this was the last day of the Conference , er did you have time to talk about anything other than the White Paper ? |