Example sentences of "[prep] something [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody called John Hawley reviewed the novel for the Times , and he was rather sniffy : ‘ Begley is clearly after something more than entertainment here : he wants to write The Great Gatsby . |
| 2 | The stars shone overhead , remote but always with promise of something better than the brief rush of biological existence . |
| 3 | And I am still aware , gratefully aware , of the as yet undefined and perhaps indefinable presence of something greater than or beyond myself and my body , something sustaining me , feeding me , encouraging me . |
| 4 | It implies that 90% of the universe is composed of something other than everyday atoms — swarms of exotic particles never seen on earth . |
| 5 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 6 | Between half and two-thirds of smokers die of something other than smoking . |
| 7 | Firstly , the examples of what you see as excessive zeal in Welsh preparations for a recent home international match — male-voice choir , song-sheets , operatic soprano and pre-match player introductions — are surely symptoms of something other than nationalist fervour . |
| 8 | When somebody dies of something other than natural causes almost all civilised countries , except those engaged in war or civil rebellion , have a legal procedure under which the cause of the death is investigated . |
| 9 | However , we want to argue in favour of thinking in terms of something other than a sentence as being the major psychological processing unit ; and , as we will see , a more appropriate processing unit is probably the clause . |
| 10 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 11 | It seems that once such a figure has been established there is no need for duplication , but that the necessity for such figures , typical of something larger than themselves without being limited to illustrating a single characteristic , is undeniable . |
| 12 | as if he were made of something finer than flesh and bone ; finer than yellow earth . |
| 13 | The Divisional Court , presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker , emphasized that there had to be a ‘ real possibility ’ of a breach of the peace , but went on to find that just such a situation of menace existed here : eighteen people ‘ milling about ’ when there were only eight people in the works created a ‘ real danger of something more than mere picketing ’ . |
| 14 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I do n't know how Dawn really feels about me , whether love or trust mean anything to her or not , but I do know that there is something special between us , and it feels like something more than just conditioning . |
| 17 | Inouye : I just wanted the record to be clear , because somehow I felt like something less than a patriot all day long . |
| 18 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 19 | Unlike the new Cistercian seekers for a simpler form of monastic life , Anselm — however much he shared a personal preference for simplicity — disapproved of a discontented search for something better than the present community provided . |
| 20 | On the other hand , arguments that freedom is valuable for something other than itself are seldom convincing . |
| 21 | What is the root of his ever-present seeking for something other than he has — happiness , nirvana or what you will ? |
| 22 | What is time when you 're in a company hatchback surrounded by sweating execs in their hatchbacks , furiously scanning the radio for something other than Libby Purves ? |
| 23 | For one thing he certainly over-states it when he says that pleasure always comes from satisfaction of an antecedent desire for something other than pleasure . |
| 24 | And to eat there — how she longed to , to drop the few years that made her different from Cad , to lose the ripeness and rotundities that would always make her different from Cati , who was , really , almost boy-like with her stringbean limbs , yet not quite boyish either , angelic rather ; she was not afflicted with the need Rosa felt , the gap opening inside her , where a longing for something other than what lay within her sights sat in occupation , banging her drum and marking out a new rhythm and new steps for Rosa 's spinning wants , calling down the corridors of Rosa 's body to her innermost inguinal life , till her blood rang to the beat . |
| 25 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 26 | it ai n't very often I go in for something other than chips and not have chips as well you know |
| 27 | One would think you intended her for something more than your waiting maid . |
| 28 | I followed the cliff path which led steeply up out of Otters ' Bay and then westward over the headland for something less than half a mile , to bring me in sight of the bay I had seen yesterday . |
| 29 | Cologne 's unusually intense art scene began with what Kacprzak describes as a post-war vie de bohème , made possible by low rents in Cologne and Düsseldorf , and a rather un-German tolerance for something less than order . |
| 30 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |