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

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1 Yeremi 's amazement at being tested in the presence of none other than a Space Marine was spiked with bile at the recollection of how that brat and his fellow high-life hooligans , who stood so contemptuously above any law , had hustled injured cousin Yakobi away to a vile death , crowing and bragging .
2 Work that wire all the way , look upon it as none other than a super-length needle with the eye in the bend of the wire .
3 as something other than a Poetry book .
4 Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before .
5 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 ’ .
6 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 ’ .
7 And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive
8 Anything other than a square-on approach can lead to problems .
9 The list of places with worthwhile examples is far too extensive for inclusion in anything other than a specialist guide to private collections , but a considerable amount of information can be obtained from local tourist authorities and both general and individual heritage guides .
10 He had never flown in anything other than a Tiger Moth so her requested that his name be put forward for a short Washington sortie .
11 It 's as good a theory as any to explain it , because lord knows I never intended this to be anything other than a business arrangement . ’
12 The lack of communication to others has only in part been due to our own ineptness at salesmanship ; it more likely lies in a fairly deeply embedded resistance to drama being anything other than a community art — not just a performing art , a community art .
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