Example sentences of "[pron] other [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Part of the reason could be to do with my genes : my other and grandmother were both very beautiful women who looked after themselves . |
2 | This gulf is shown most dramatically in the surprise ending , which obliges us to re-evaluate our reading of the novel by revealing that the anonymous , timid and sensitive lad who has been narrating the story of his early life in the first person is none other than Jaguar , the aggressive bully we have seen ruling the roost in the school . |
3 | Tonight 's entertainment takes the form of a knockout darts competition , and your host for the evening is none other than TV superstar Jim Bowen . |
4 | IT 'S the Paul Gascoigne of his day … none other than TV pundit Jimmy Greaves . |
5 | The transformation that turns the pattern on the plane into the spherical version is none other than inversion . |
6 | That was what was happening though , and the foot in question belonged to none other than mine hostess . |
7 | The grail itself was sin , none other than sin itself ; what greater obeisance to Love itself than to part with all ? |
8 | Indeed , strengthening the petty-bourgeois economy means none other than apportionment on the basis of commodity circulation of the buyer-up , the trade capitalist and owner . |
9 | None other than Food Label entrepreneur ANDY ROSS . |
10 | It has to be none other than Star Trek : The Screen Saver , which Berkeley is marketing under the slogan of ‘ Beam Up or Burn Or Burn Out . ’ |
11 | It 's none other than number 13 Spofforth Road , Wavertree , Liverpool 7 . |
12 | Despite the fact that both mother and teacher said that he was always like this , it happened on average three times a day only after he was asked to do something other than play by himself . |
13 | ( 4 ) The three male singers who performed these six roles all normally sang something other than soprano parts . |
14 | Between half and two-thirds of smokers die of something other than smoking . |
15 | Thus we can see that there is a broad variety of approaches which we may group under the heading of ‘ natural law theories ’ because they all rely on something other than state law to constitute the valid rules of a legal system . |
16 | That 's why he 's not doing so well at the moment : people like you to put up some pretence that you 're interested in something other than money , even if you are in the insurance business . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | If only she drank something other than herb tea . |
19 | I 'd like her to have something other than fustian . " |
20 | Aestheticism , l'art pour l'art , is identified , and impaled , in Hérédia ( though with a beguiling hesitancy — ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ one tends to conclude ’ ) ; to aim for the poetic ends up in something other than poetry , or else in inferior poetry . |
21 | ‘ Well , something other than sex gets you aroused to a passion , ’ she said with unaccustomed acidity . |
22 | If this reduces the flake to a silver grey powder , then what you have is something other than gold ; if not , then well done ! |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Texts cohere , so cohesion within a text ( texture ) , depends upon something other than structure ; it is a property of the text as such , and not of any structural unit such as a clause or sentence . |
25 | But no amphibian can truthfully be described as nimble and for hunting they have to rely on something other than agility their tongue . |
26 | A few people thought I was making a living in something other than fashion , if you see what I mean . ’ |
27 | Such thorough excavators probably need something other than undergravel filtration |
28 | Suddenly , Ted was aware that he was ploughing up something other than earth . |
29 | With breast-fed babies who are thought to have food sensitivity , the first step is to check that it is not something other than breast milk causing the problem . |
30 | She wanted to talk about something other than death and danger . |