Example sentences of "other than [det] " in BNC.

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1 The art of civilisations other than that of the West are now more readily visible through photography , and within the limitations of the medium , usefully so .
2 Other than that , it was important that she should look interesting so that even if what she said was dull the audience would not be bored ; that the outfit should take account of the long range view — jewellery or other small items were irrelevant — and that it should draw attention to her face .
3 7.2.2 The White Paper comments that some GPs may have to be ‘ re-educated ’ in their referral practices , if the DHA arranged a contract with a hospital other than that which the GP has used by choice .
4 Plotting functions encourage experimentation , allowing not only trials of equations other than that selected as optimum , but also zooming parts of plots to amplify relevance of the fit and resizing the graph to judge extrapolation effects .
5 In between these demonstrations of loyalty and discipline under fire he had said nothing to clarify the Government 's policy for combating inflation other than that there was no alternative to what he had been doing .
6 The telling of atrocity stories is therefore a highly structured occasion which reveals little about the teller other than that he or she is performing a ritual for a contextually specific purpose .
7 When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that .
8 Literally this was not so , since the emergency procedures of the Civil Contingency Unit were kept in being and it felt able to cope with almost every dispute other than that of council grave-diggers .
9 Although the Act ( sec. 25 , 1944 Education Act ) would seem to give parents and pupils the right to practise a religion other than that ( Christianity ) , in general there is little or no provision made in school for any kind of peripatetic Muslim teacher to give lessons in Islam .
10 Who that will be he declined to say other than that he would be preferably an ex-minister , ‘ somebody who has had a reasonably high profile ’ .
11 But there is no opportunity to express an opinion other than that of Sajudis . ’
12 Apart from these cases , the entire property , other than that in which the deceased 's interest ceased at his death , is held by the executors or administrators on trust for sale , in the first instance for the payment of his debts , and then for distribution as laid down in the Intestates ’ Estates Act 1952 , which has replaced the relevant provisions of the Act of 1925 .
13 I hardly remember what Mrs Girdlestone looked like , other than that she was plump and elderly , and gave an impression of being prepared for battle ; but I was touched when I saw the tea that had been laid out ready for me , imagining the two ladies conferring about the slices of bought ham , the thin bread-and-butter , and the bought cake .
14 There is no good reason for it other than that given by Bertrand Russell in that more troubled decade : ‘ The world in which we are now living would have seemed , before 1945 , too horrible to be endured .
15 There could be no explanation for his victory other than that there was considerable support in Unionist circles for the traditionalist positions represented by Paisley and Beattie .
16 ‘ In case you have n't noticed , other than that first call , I 've made no attempt to try and find him since we 've been here . ’
17 As far as they are concerned the future does not exist in any way , other than that they hope they wo n't live to have any part in it .
18 Other than that , I ca n't see what it is about her that is so dreadful suddenly , but the tone of disappointment and warning in my mother 's voice does get through to me .
19 Maybe boys think that we dress up to impress them , but they will only say something looks nice if it looks obviously sexy ; other than that , they 're hopeless .
20 Analogous situations in our everyday lives are too obvious to require further comment , other than that they , too , have dramatic potential .
21 Such factors include levels of provision , ‘ secondary ’ organizational factors ( that is , at levels other than that of the team ) , worker idiosyncrasies , and demographic characteristics of areas served .
22 As York finds , workers prefer not to involve their clients in short-term task processes , but this may be for a multitude of reasons other than that of effectiveness : lack of time ( client participation is generally time consuming ) , agency policy and pressure ( paternalism ) , professional socialization and norms , and so on .
23 Total of 9 lifts and 9 falls = Loss 810 cu. ft. = 9/100 lock — that is to say there is no loss , other than that of 9 separate ‘ fits ’ , or one in each case of 90 cubic feet .
24 ‘ I can hear you , but ca n't see a thing other than that fire . ’
25 The concept of ‘ normality ’ has no real meaning other than that of the personal viewpoint of any individual .
26 Little is known of the visit other than that Mozart appeared before the Bavarian Elector Maximilian III Joseph .
27 If the initial exposure is given to some flavour other than that used for the test phase , then both the habituation of neophobia ( Siegel 1974 ) and latent inhibition ( Tarpy and McIntosh 1977 ) are attenuated but may still occur to some extent — the degree of generalization will presumably depend upon the extent to which the pre-exposed flavour and the test flavour are perceived as similar .
28 The observation that a CR may be less likely when the CS is presented in a context other than that used for training is open to a number of explanations , some of them of little theoretical interest .
29 Again , no formal theory of attention is developed and indeed it is unclear that some mechanism other than that involved in abstraction is necessary — the distinctive features of an object or event are likely to be the invariants and the irrelevant aspects those that vary from presentation to presentation .
30 The police suspected that it was an inside job and promptly arrested the dismissed worker , for no reason other than that she might have borne a grudge against her erstwhile employer .
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