Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [indef pn] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Plenty of fissures , but nowhere to hide for anything bigger than a lizard . |
| 3 | Now , this was the last day of the Conference , er did you have time to talk about anything other than the White Paper ? |
| 4 | This location is almost impossible to reach in anything less than a Jeep . |
| 5 | But the states of western Europe were now being driven by harsh experience if by nothing higher to aim at something more than the chaotic free-for-all which had marked the Italian wars and the Habsburg–Valois struggles of the first half of the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | Indeed the clause in dispute in Walford v Miles was a lock-out clause in that it represented an undertaking by the vendor not to negotiate with anyone other than the purchaser . |
| 7 | Although there is a school of thought that , if the vendor is besieged with questions , its management will be too occupied to negotiate with anyone other than the purchaser , it is important to consider who is operating the business if the full time attention of senior management is taken up with demands for information . |
| 8 | Actually , Dustin , although masterful in changing the timbre of his voice to suit different parts , only rarely attempts to put on anything other than an American accent . |
| 9 | Experiments show that many tolerate a wide range of light conditions , but a few high polar species perform best in long day regimes , or refuse to flower in anything less than a 22–24-hour day . |
| 10 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 11 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 12 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 13 | Whether the picture is seen as a staircase viewed from above or a staircase viewed from below seems to depend on something other than the image on the retina of the viewer . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm the conman , ’ he replied , and that humiliation by Barnsley instantly began to feel like nothing worse than a bad dream . |