Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] 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 | One walks between the banks that show where the houses stood , marking how blocks of squared masonry thrust in one place out of the turf ( a more important building than most of them ) , and how the tree-roots twist among the rubble footings of the peasant dwellings ; and one picks up pieces of twelfth- and thirteenth-century pottery — mere sherds , bits of rim , of sides , of bases , but all datable : nothing later than the Black Death , when the great silence descended . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | None other than the greatest mathematician in the world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Its long-term purpose is none other than the total control of all human minds throughout the galaxy . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ None other than the big chief himself ! ’ he revealed . |
| 11 | Fancy my not guessing at once that the Umpire She was on about was none other than the top man himself . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Yet music-wise , the chemistry between the four piece produces a tense , beautiful sound which goes one better than the passive stance of last year . |
| 14 | The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage . |
| 15 | ‘ We have a quality street team to welcome the Aussies , ’ said Probyn , ‘ and I intend to go one better than the last time I faced them — the World Cup final 12 months ago . ’ |
| 16 | Unlike the new Cistercian seekers for a simpler form of monastic life , Anselm — however much he shared a personal preference for simplicity — disapproved of a discontented search for something better than the present community provided . |
| 17 | The stars shone overhead , remote but always with promise of something better than the brief rush of biological existence . |
| 18 | The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block . |
| 19 | She reflected upon , perhaps only now fully remembered , her sense , in forgiving Jack , of in some way devaluing him , accepting him and loving him as something less than the perfect being she had married . |
| 20 | But we can now see that the apocalyptic interpretation of history emerged from the confrontation with the Greeks about 165 B.C. If II Maccabees reveals a true aspect of the activities of Antiochus IV by stressing the cooperation of Hellenizing Jews , this is something less than the whole truth . |
| 21 | ‘ Structural causality ’ , on this view , is something less than the rigorous determination of a specific effect ; instead , it is conceived as the production of conditions and constraints within which diverse , but not unlimited , alternative courses of political action and development are possible . |
| 22 | But a head must in the end tolerate something less than the hoped-for whole being achieved . |
| 23 | NOT CONTENT with Physics or Maths homework 25 years ago , a group of young men wanted something more than the usual pastime so they built a railway . |
| 24 | The golden circle and the golden cap which form the basis of Stephen 's Crown became for Hungary something more than the mere symbol of royalty . |
| 25 | And we also know of his early life something more than the official biography , since , thirty years ago , his sister defected to here . |
| 26 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The navy , greatly expanded under Henry VIII , required something more than the single clerk who had managed its affairs under the distant and often negligible supervision of the Lord Admiral . |
| 29 | The court accepted at least part of that argument , allowing that the sculptures may contain something more than the original work . |
| 30 | Yet , something more than the previous success , and consequent authority , of the Consumers ' Movement is needed to explain the apparently complacent appraisal of the Co-operative scene as Cole portrays it , the unregretting acceptance of the failure of Co-operative principle implicit in the virtual abandonment of the promotion of authentic Producer Co-operation , the strategic mistake of continuing , after Consumers ' Co-operation had so firmly established itself , to commit its resources solely to its own further development , and the failure to realise that where its attractions were not exclusively its own , industrial democracy attached uniquely to Producer Co-operation and so was an inalienable advantage . |