Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [indef pn] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no way anyone could mistake me for anyone other than a journalist . |
| 2 | She told me , ‘ Blind people do n't need that register , ’ and that no one would ever employ me as anything other than an audio-typist . |
| 3 | The many facets of deixis are so pervasive in natural languages , and so deeply grammaticalized , that it is hard to think of them as anything other than an essential part of semantics . |
| 4 | There is little doubt Brits are among the world 's most powerful boulderers , but put them on anything higher than an average cellar roof and they climb , with very few exceptions , like pumped , nervous and confused lemmings . |
| 5 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 6 | It would be easy to dismiss her as nothing more than a minor accessory to ben Issachar 's crime against me : these women stay in the background , mind their own business over the cookpots and the infant 's cot , keep themselves out of public view . |
| 7 | Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer . |
| 8 | He thought he would come to no harm both because people needed his services as a medical man and because he thought they would regard him as nothing more than a political eccentric . |
| 9 | But still it was clear that , amidst her preoccupations , there was scarcely room to think of him as anything more than a temporary ally . |
| 10 | And to us if we are to understand him in anything more than a superficial way . |
| 11 | But it would be foolish to dismiss it as nothing more than a gimmick . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is the disastrous way in which they have trivialized the rich complexity of black life by reducing it to nothing more than a response to racism . |
| 14 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |