Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [indef pn] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Justice Foster said , ‘ Had the author [ of the advertisement ] wished to indicate that nothing more than an opinion was being expressed , he could have achieved this object quite simply by introducing the very same words ‘ we think ’ before the ‘ there is little evidence ’ . ’ |
| 2 | How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance . |
| 3 | However the Tube is not designed as anything more than a temporary tent so it should n't be expected to give normal tent performance . |
| 4 | Even the evolutionists who accepted that species change in response to adaptive pressures realized that something more than simple adaptation was involved . |
| 5 | Though the Company is still evil and still tends to give its spacecraft Conradian names ( 'Sulaco' this time , instead of ‘ Nostromo ’ , suggesting that someone other than Ridley Scott had actually read Nostromo , the devious company man , Burke ( Paul Reiser ) , is now the loner , and he behaves exactly like a Hollywood executive , or agent , intent on a deal . |
| 6 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If the materially minded evolutionists were right and mind patterns whether in humans or animals are genetically transmitted as nothing more than expressions of biochemistry , then why do dogs still retain the same instincts as the wolf ? |
| 9 | This ritual suicide is seen as something deeper than the sexual rituals described in earlier stanzas , yet in Frazerian terms , it is itself a ritual performed in connection with the revival of vegetation in spring . |
| 10 | In doing so , the counsellor has to look at the family dynamic with a particular emphasis on those factors which impinge upon the life of the ageing family member , but to be seen as anything other than impartial , particularly when there is jealousy and conflict within the family group , can lead to a lack of trust and the possible withdrawal of co-operation and participation by some family members . |
| 11 | Then they began to glance about them with jealous , embittered eyes , wondering if someone other than they had been saved , whether God had favoured one and not another . |
| 12 | Here , in a room even estate agents would have difficulty describing as anything other than small , 20 people clung to the perimeter walls as a man with a Chris Waddle haircut hammered out some old rock cliches . |
| 13 | I 'd be grateful if you 'd think about my offer seriously and — ’ dark brown eyes snared hers ‘ — remember that nothing less than winning ever did satisfy me . ’ |
| 14 | But how can imperatives function as anything other than instructions directed at others ( perhaps also himself ) by an individual with status as a commander ? |
| 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 | He postulates that IBM could create different classes of shares whose dividends would reflect performance of relatively healthy businesses such as the AS/400 and RS/6000 , and possibly AdStar storage products , but many observers now believe that nothing less than a full break-up of the company would enable the better bits to prosper and restore shareholder value . |
| 17 | I was interested to read that none other than Simon Halliday ( Harlequins ) regretted that with the onset of league rugby he would no longer be able to compare his skills with those of his counterparts in Llanelli or Cardiff — he would , however , still have that opportunity with the cream of Scotland and Ireland . |
| 18 | It will be appreciated that something less than the sanctity which attaches to completion in England exists in France … to resort to the courts to enforce a contract would be a rare and tediously long process and is hardly considered in textbooks as a remedy . |
| 19 | Healthy , clean wood can heal — sometimes you may be trying to get ahead of spreading disease as it works its way into a plant , and pruning to discoloured , infected wood or leaving bruised , sawn and anything other than clean cuts only causes more trouble . |
| 20 | On the other hand , there are many cases in which prerogative orders have been awarded against Ministers without any qualm or discussion of the matter ; but it does not follow from this fact that such orders operate as anything other than ‘ requests ’ to act or to refrain from action . |
| 21 | The reductionist approach was not providing results in cancer research and I thought that something other than the presently known properties of carcinogens had to be involved as a activator . ’ |
| 22 | Jared Tunstall thought that something more than hard work had brought his daughter fulfilment and a new maturity — and , with them both , a deeper beauty . |
| 23 | He thought that something more than automatic associations were made as he observed that the chimpanzees seemed to understand the principle in solving the problems . |
| 24 | It was a fuss about nothing , and I greatly doubt whether anyone other than Randolph Churchill would have made a major issue of it . |
| 25 | Her battered , motley-panelled 2CV had looked out of place in Ascot Square , where I think that anything less than a two-year old Golf GTi , Peugeot 209 or Renault 5 was considered to be only just above banger status , even as a third car , let alone a second . |
| 26 | Similarly , though from a different historical perspective , Adorno and Horkheimer , confronting the massive extension and technical development of that rationality , acknowledge the possibility , and even the residue , of difference and negation in the nonsense of eccentric entertainment — a residual refusal of official meaning — but can place no faith in its capacity to survive as anything more than fun , as anything other than acceptable difference within the logic of capitalist culture and the totality of the culture industry . |
| 27 | Even Sidney and Beatrice Webb , in their classic history of trade unionism , said of the Act that it gave trade unions ‘ an extra-ordinary and unlimited immunity , however great may be the damage caused , and however unwarranted the act , which most lawyers as well as all employers , regard as nothing less than monstrous ’ . |
| 28 | This could be regarded as nothing more than fatigue and recovery from fatigue , but it is not . |
| 29 | The people considered themselves ‘ God 's chosen ’ , and the king of such a people was regarded as something more than other kings — more even than the Emperor of Rome . |
| 30 | The morphological nature of the neck is highly problematical and the available evidence suggests that something more than an enlarged intersegmental region may be involved . |