Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of us sometimes need to talk through our anxieties with someone other than a friend and the Samaritans are always glad to listen . |
| 2 | Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 5 | In this case , it seems to have been someone other than the person who was to use the manuscript who ordered it to be copied . |
| 6 | If someone other than the buyer was injured by the goods , the Sale of Goods Act gives him no rights . |
| 7 | A claim in negligence does not depend on the presence of a contract , so if the person injured is someone other than the buyer , that person can still sue . |
| 8 | When a central government department is sued , it is usual to name the respondent as the Secretary of State who is constitutionally responsible for the conduct of the department 's business ; although , of course , the decision or action being challenged will more often than not have been made or done by someone other than the Secretary of State personally ; and in the case of a geographically decentralized department , such as the Department of Social Security , the challenged decision or action may have originated from any one of a large number of regional offices of the department . |
| 9 | No , what the detective should gain from such interviews is something pointing suspicion at someone other than the suspect being interviewed . |
| 10 | The healing of the servant was made possible by the prayerful faith of someone other than the sufferer . |
| 11 | For example , It is proposed that … suggests that the writer of the abstract is doing the proposing , but It has been proposed that … suggests that the proposing is done by someone other than the writer . |
| 12 | The Rowan Clinic at the Royal London Hospital has a team of counsellors , so basic assessment may be undertaken by someone other than the client 's personal counsellor . |
| 13 | In contrast , the analysis of discourse , as undertaken and exemplified in this book , is typically based on the linguistic output of someone other than the analyst . |
| 14 | It must be like an Ord 14 affidavit in the sense that it has to be sworn by the plaintiff or someone authorised to do so ( eg his solicitor or legal executive ) and if it is sworn by someone other than the plaintiff , the affidavit has to state specifically that the deponent is duly authorised by the plaintiff to make the affidavit on his behalf . |
| 15 | As we have seen , the notion of a duty entails that someone other than the duty-bearer must decide what action the duty requires . |
| 16 | This may well be done by someone other than the interviewer . |
| 17 | However , someone other than the purchaser could be injured on account of the article 's negligent manufacture and an exclusion clause would provide no defence in an action brought by him against the manufacturer . |
| 18 | The rule that cases should be prepared for trial by someone other than the advocate presenting them in court should not apply to solicitors , the committee said . |
| 19 | This section examines cases which use indirect words , words directed to someone other than the trustee , which are none the less held to give rise to an obligation under trust in the trustee . |
| 20 | Someone other than the trustee or his nominee may be elected chairman , but if the trustee is the chairman , he may not adjourn the meeting without the consent of at least half , in value , of those present ( in person or by proxy ) and entitled vote ( r 6.129(3) ) . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | It is a good internal control if the dealer is not allowed to make cash transfers and if bank confirmations are matched to internal dealing records by someone other than the dealer . |
| 23 | The benefit is that all the tax reclaimed is dealt with by somebody other than the charity . |
| 24 | Yeremi 's amazement at being tested in the presence of none other than a Space Marine was spiked with bile at the recollection of how that brat and his fellow high-life hooligans , who stood so contemptuously above any law , had hustled injured cousin Yakobi away to a vile death , crowing and bragging . |
| 25 | It turns out that the independent property consultancy was none other than a subsidiary of the national ports authority , which is a major shareholder in the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 26 | Work that wire all the way , look upon it as none other than a super-length needle with the eye in the bend of the wire . |
| 27 | For the boat , now called Spirit of Scotland , is none other than the vessel built in this region in the 1980s and launched under the name Spirit of Merseyside . |
| 28 | It is , I am told , German settlers in County Wexford who are responsible for the Irish Brie called St Edi now being peddled in this country ; the assault of its ammoniac smell brought back to me with terrible force a twenty-two-year-old memory of the Camembert of war-time Egypt which , I now realize , could have been none other than the handiwork of a German fifth column active in Alexandria . ) |
| 29 | One of those who wants the young Pakistani punished is none other than the man he so narrowly beat 10-15 , 6-15 , 15-4 , 15-11 , 15-10 in the final , Chris Dittmar . |
| 30 | He is , in fact , none other than the knight-errant of the fairy tales ( as witness Chandler calling his hero originally Malory , after the author of the Morte d'Arthur , and Robert Parker calling his Spenser , after the poet of The Fairy Queen ) . |