Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If you need to bring an umbrella , a street guide or anything other than a briefcase or handbag leave it in the reception area during the interview .
2 They are reckless , exciting , silly , thunderously loud and nothing less than a teen Sonic Youth for the '90s .
3 Such an obligation , usually thought of as nothing more than a reason to obey , may be based on reasons other than the authority of the law .
4 the abolition of profit making and democratic control mark out cooperation as nothing less than a revolution , so fundamental , vital , and transforming is the change it is effecting in the economic structure of society …
5 Bowe , 6ft 5in and 235lb , and with an 81-inch reach , represents the man mountain that Holyfield must scale if he is to be accepted as someone other than a caretaker holding the keys to the division until another genuine champion arrives .
6 The Marquis of Queensberry may be judged , in this context , to have made an involuntary and uncharacteristic joke in accusing Wilde of ‘ posing as a somdomite ’ : a phrase that smells of the multiple self , and of the uncertainty of interpretation — and indeed spelling ( Ackroyd , as it happens , interprets him as something other than a sodomite ) .
7 as something other than a Poetry book .
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