Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | While the direct use of fuels for purposes other than electricity generation has gone down , the output of electricity has gone up . |
| 2 | 2 Supply contracts for consideration other than money |
| 3 | It has to incorporate a wide range of factors and develop methods of investigation other than laboratory experiments . |
| 4 | The overall purpose of this Unit is to help teachers develop their understanding of the nature of language , and of its role in society , and on that basis to improve their classroom practice in teaching , through the medium of English , speakers of languages other than English , and speakers of varieties very different from Standard British English . |
| 5 | This led the Germans to emphasise their strengths in things other than politics , especially culture ( during the first half of the 19th century ) and industry ( during the second half ) , using these to build the German nation . |
| 6 | It remains to be seen whether interaction occurs between DRP and glycoproteins in tissues other than muscle and whether such interaction is important to the function of DRP in these tissues . |
| 7 | In all these approaches , influences on language other than gender are skated over . |
| 8 | Most forms of capital other than land escaped , while the real burden on land itself was , according to O'Brien and Mathias , " light and diminishing " . |
| 9 | Forms of credit other than hire purchase were largely neighbourhood based . |
| 10 | He shows that the maize is an important political symbol ; that people use it in ritual exchanges ; that its by-products are useful in ways unique to it ; in short , that it is effective in areas of life other than nutrition . |
| 11 | The growth of imports has been over 11 per cent p.a. whereas export growth has only been 7.7 per cent p.a. , and if one considers exports and imports of goods other than oil products then the figures are 13 per cent p.a. import growth and 9 per cent p.a. export growth . |
| 12 | Where employees are transferred to posts within locations other than Chesser House , payments of excess travelling expenses/excess travelling time as appropriate will be made in accordance with the Council 's approved arrangements . |
| 13 | Other instances include the lack of avail-ability of vegetarian food or Halal meat , the failure to communicate school messages to parents in languages other than English , and the absence of policies on racial abuse or equal opportunities . |
| 14 | Also amnestied were all prisoners ( except repeated offenders ) who had been sentenced before Dec. 22 , 1989 , to prison terms of up to three years for crimes other than murder , rape , grievous bodily harm , robbery , bribe-taking and abuse of power . |
| 15 | Jim Corbett tells just such a tale in his Man-Eaters of Kumaon , and since his lead-in to the episode also tells of the mental abilities of creatures other than man , it is worth quoting in full . |
| 16 | However , we will have to leave this for now with a sense of pessimism , because we will find no way forward until we have got to grips with forces other than production change which , very much in interaction with production change , are constitutive of civil society and of social being . |
| 17 | Further information on copper deposits and occurrences in areas other than South-west England and Scotland can be found in Dewey and Eastwood ( 1925 ) . |
| 18 | Studies of commodities other than index futures are summarized in Appendix 5 . |
| 19 | A number of empirical studies of the volatility-volume relationship based on studies of futures other than index futures is summarized in Table 8.3 . |
| 20 | Some of the studies of futures other than index futures are summarized in Table 8.4 . |
| 21 | Sources of income other than unemployment benefits and earnings do matter , but less than benefits and earnings ( similar results appear in Atkinson , et al. |
| 22 | Five million West Germans can already receive Eurosport , and 17 million Continentals in all , and this week the company will announce its first simultaneous commentaries in languages other than English . |
| 23 | Cruel , a little , but not savage : Alix could see Hannah smiling gamely , taking it in good part , and wondered if she was also taking in the rather subtle sub-text of allusions to drugs other than nicotine . |
| 24 | However , much attention has been given in the literature to inversion of triangular matrices by methods other than back-substitution , particularly iterative methods . |
| 25 | Feminists have used Lacanian ideas to extend their specific understandings of differences other than gender . |
| 26 | Of the few very recent publications in languages other than English , most ( 93% ) had been acquired by purchase . |
| 27 | Councillors on authorities other than education authorities may be invited to participate at some level in educational administration and in the case of primary schools , district and parish councils may have rights in respect of appointing governors . |
| 28 | Proposals to develop closed pits for uses other than mining will also be considered , said British Coal . |
| 29 | We 're looking at sizes of nests bigger than dustbin bags , which service up to 25,000 wasps , which produce 4,000 to 5,000 Queens , which survive until next year . |
| 30 | Records still give no indications of use other than corn milling , but by the 1690s a fulling mill and dye house had been added , possibly much earlier . |