Example sentences of "[adv] be other than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oil revenues were state revenues , and in Libya — depending on the price of oil — the petroleum industry created between 50 per cent and 80 per cent of gross domestic product : budgets for the distribution of this wealth could scarcely be other than central budgets . |
| 2 | In some cases he may be able to obtain an injunction to restrain the breach and in any case he will be adequately compensated by his remedy in damages for breach of contract as his damage can scarcely be other than financial . |
| 3 | Those three operations then are the measure of modern medical practice : cancers which might have developed from an enlarged prostate , some rogue polyps and a spinal tumour , any one of which could have proved fatal , were all pre-empted by discovery and cure ; and I can not be other than deeply grateful for this additional lease of life . |
| 4 | How that is to be done necessitates an explanation that can not be other than labyrinthine . |
| 5 | Although their boundaries can not be other than arbitrary , the South-West , the West Midlands , the Northern and the rest are for the most part easily identifiable territories , demarcated with a fair degree of consistency by public authorities , the media and national associations of all sorts including political parties . |
| 6 | The abolition of the distinction would not occur because historical social psychologists would be uninterested in theoretical issues , but because theory could not be other than historically applicable . |
| 7 | It seems to be the very purest form of the art , even though it can not be other than a minor branch of it . |
| 8 | To share a little could not be other than beneficial to the recipient 's soul ! ’ |
| 9 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 10 | Any figure at which the assessor of damages arrives can not be other than artificial and , if the aim is that justice meted out to all litigants should be even-handed instead of depending on idiosyncracies of the assessor , whether jury or judge , the figure must be " basically a conventional figure derived from experience and from awards in comparable cases " . |
| 11 | It is disturbing because , ultimately , the student comes to see that things could always be other than they are . |
| 12 | It was against this background , namely that it seemed preposterous to suppose that a.b could ever be other than equal to b.a in any consistent algebraic setting , that Hamilton looked for more than 10 years for an extension of complex numbers suitable for application to the physics of 3-dimensional space . |
| 13 | It was an enchanting and heady experience , and one which could hardly be other than irresistible : a delightful upbringing for the future queen consort of France , but not one which at first sight looks like adequate preparation for the future queen regnant of Scotland . |
| 14 | Language , they claim , should never be other than a transparent medium through which the meaning can be seen . |
| 15 | Such interactions must never be other than supportive ; yet they must also carry as much potency as possible for moving children 's learning forward . |
| 16 | While it makes little sense to talk of criticism of the physical world , it makes every sense to talk of criticism turned on to the theories and concepts which science has produced to explain the external world , for they could certainly be other than they are.8 Unfortunately , we sometimes give the impression in science and technological education that the current models , terms and theories of science are given and have merely to be assimilated by students . |