Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If nothing other than the Process and Working Directories were under LIBRARY$DISK : [ LSLIVE ] , ( ie. none of the storage directories were under this root ) then you could use the simpler BACKUP command :
2 If someone other than the buyer was injured by the goods , the Sale of Goods Act gives him no rights .
3 So viewed , the decision is entirely consistent with the test laid down by Best J. The benefit of the covenant to repay could not touch and concern the land because someone other than the owner for the time being of the term could take the benefit of it …
4 Such an obligation , usually thought of as nothing more than a reason to obey , may be based on reasons other than the authority of the law .
5 What Mead is calling the generalized other and its effects , can be read as nothing more than the process of socialization in which any one culture or social groupings ' values and norms are internalized .
6 the abolition of profit making and democratic control mark out cooperation as nothing less than a revolution , so fundamental , vital , and transforming is the change it is effecting in the economic structure of society …
7 Bowe , 6ft 5in and 235lb , and with an 81-inch reach , represents the man mountain that Holyfield must scale if he is to be accepted as someone other than a caretaker holding the keys to the division until another genuine champion arrives .
8 The Marquis of Queensberry may be judged , in this context , to have made an involuntary and uncharacteristic joke in accusing Wilde of ‘ posing as a somdomite ’ : a phrase that smells of the multiple self , and of the uncertainty of interpretation — and indeed spelling ( Ackroyd , as it happens , interprets him as something other than a sodomite ) .
9 as something other than a Poetry book .
10 How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance .
11 This saw the common Interest as something other than the sum of , or compromise between , a diversity of group interests .
12 The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' .
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