Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [indef pn] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is by no means unheard of for a band to be offered a deal on nothing more than a ‘ concept ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year . |
| 4 | It is also easier to stop the forward movement in this situation , since many models require a positive effort to make headway against anything more than a stiff breeze . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 7 | In fact , he had no need of anything more than a lock of hair he showed me . ’ |
| 8 | Each chariot is drawn by two fine Elven steeds and carries a single Tiranoc noble who controls the chariot with nothing more than a spoken word . |
| 9 | The results of this experiment would seem to preclude an analysis of the acoustic waveform by the acoustic-phonetic component into anything other than a single string of phonemes . |
| 10 | ( 6 ) No self-respecting Hooray would ever refer to a female friend as anything other than a ‘ girl ’ or ‘ filly ’ . |
| 11 | As a result of this potent combination of sentiment and self-interest , the war had assumed the character of something more than a military operation : in the minds of the military and of many civilians , left and right , it had quickly become a decisive test of France 's national will and international power . |
| 12 | The normal ( electronic ) shutter speed of a camcorder is unc of a second ; this is too slow to record rapid movement as anything other than a blur . |
| 13 | Everyone is keen to see otter , but again they prove elusive and we round the north of the island with nothing other than a few passing gannet , some tysties and shags and a couple of rabbits spotted among the peaty banks . |
| 14 | The ancient streets could perhaps have been left to enforce their own low driving speeds through their narrowness , their cobbled surfaces and their lack of visibility over anything more than a few metres . |
| 15 | This view has long been linked with those who have argued that the company should not be specially regulated by the state since it owed its existence to nothing more than a contract between individual property owners . |
| 16 | Irigaray goes further , exalting the metaphor of homosexuality as a kind of anti-difference into nothing less than a far-reaching theory of patriarchal society . |
| 17 | I defy anyone to enter upon altered states of reality with nothing more than a bottle of Trumper 's shampoo and an almost-empty tube of Guerlain 's Habit Rouge face balm . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Derrida , Foucault , Kristeva , Lacan , Barthes : just reeling off their names is ( as Auden said in a very different context ) ever so comfy , since it safely defers the issues at hand to nothing less than a transcendent signified : in short , to a star . |
| 20 | Hardly anyone in France apart from the Lafons , and now Ostertag , dares to risk refermentation in bottle and the subsequent deposit of anything other than a few tartrate crystals in a dry white wine . |
| 21 | Research undertaken by Coopers & Lybrand revealed there was no significant case in cost terms to justify changing the current local government structure to anything other than a single unitary authority for the whole of Lothian . |
| 22 | Research undertaken by Coopers and Lybrand revealed there was no significant case in cost terms to justify changing the current local government structure to anything other than a single unitary authority for the whole of Lothian . |
| 23 | If fact , if it had n't been for Finch 's increasing drinking problem , he himself would never have behaved on the set in anything other than a professional way . |
| 24 | But in any case , Schopenhauer 's terms of reference were such that the poet-composer could never properly comply with them , for the simple reason that they reduced the role of the word in a musical context to nothing more than a necessary evil . |