Example sentences of "else be a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Wilkins and others in the early Royal Society were afraid of the metaphors associated with ‘ words ’ rather than things , and feared a science which was really word-play ; but the invention and exploitation of models is akin to the exploration of metaphor , and science like everything else is a field for homo ludens .
2 Miele Anything else is a compromise
3 Whether this should be called ‘ consummation ’ or something else is a question of definition .
4 He remembers a man with a guitar and a hat on the ground but everything else is a bit hazy .
5 Only the dull earth can purify me , contact with all else is a defilement so far as I am concerned .
6 Right everyone else is a friend apart from me .
7 Impressionism has really made things very difficult in so far as people think that impressionism is a kind of normal state for art to be in and anything else is a kind of deviation from good sense .
8 President Clinton is determined to arrest this economic downturn ; he sees it as his overriding task and everything else is a diversion , including John Major 's visit to the White House and the so-called ‘ special relationship ’ between our two countries .
9 They enable her to get housework done ; thinking about something else is a weapon deliberately employed in the attempt to combat boredom .
10 Everything else is a bonus , but it 's also a bit like hunting round the first circuit safely in the Grand National — you know it 's the next circuit that matters . ’
11 The bolder innovation comes direct by rescript from the emperor or else is a result of his influence .
12 Everybody else was a foe .
13 Everyone else was a couple ,
14 Everything else was a triviality .
15 Without self-respect , everything else was a sham .
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