Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] than a [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | as something other than a Poetry book . |
| 9 | For years , China has used a combination of strong arm diplomacy and shrill rhetoric to try to deny the Dalai Lama international recognition as a legitimate representative of Tibet 's aspirations as something other than a part of China . |
| 10 | The Marquis of Queensberry may be judged , in this context , to have made an involuntary and uncharacteristic joke in accusing Wilde of ‘ posing as a somdomite ’ : a phrase that smells of the multiple self , and of the uncertainty of interpretation — and indeed spelling ( Ackroyd , as it happens , interprets him as something other than a sodomite ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Equally ( as I have suggested ) it is difficult for her to have a God who is something other than a force ( perhaps a human idea ) present within history . |
| 13 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
| 14 | However , as transcripts of spontaneous speech like the one above illustrate , the listener who is attempting to understand spoken language is often being confronted with something other than a string of sentences . |
| 15 | It never struck me that every time I cut my finger and the cut heals , something other than a piece of Elastoplast has rushed to the rescue . |
| 16 | Because BS knows all the facts about the brain state , and the experience just is the brain state , then what the experience is like must be something other than a fact about the experience . |
| 17 | for three hours with a sur as the surgeon battled to save his life well I 'd have thought they could have plugged wounds with something other than a finger ! |
| 18 | The plan can be attractive to anybody other than a parent making a gift to a child . |
| 19 | The plan can be attractive to anybody other than a parent making a gift to a child . |
| 20 | The plan can be attractive to anybody other than a parent making a gift to a child . |
| 21 | From July it will be illegal for anyone other than a vet to carry out the operation . |
| 22 | There was no way anyone could mistake me for anyone other than a journalist . |
| 23 | Or is he speaking about that nation of complacent and indifferent shopkeepers who long for nothing other than a return to the days of imperial hegemony ? |
| 24 | Yet for Gunn and his circle of friends AIDS is nothing other than a plague , striking randomly but inevitably . |
| 25 | To be honest , the evidence for druids having ever performed such grisly ceremonies is very dubious and the whole thing is probably nothing other than a piece of Romano-Christian propaganda aimed at destroying the pagan religion of the Celts . |
| 26 | Looking back to the period between the two world wars and even to that of 1939–45 , any newcomer to the scene would have foreseen nothing other than a future of amicable and mutually beneficial co-operation . |
| 27 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 28 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 29 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 30 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |