Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [indef pn] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was important to find out whether Riddle 's body could have been in the Wheel and , if it could , was it possible for anyone other than Jordan to have put it there ? |
| 2 | With the A4 page so firmly entrenched the number of options is rather restricted ; one column of text is too wide to read comfortably , four columns are too narrow for anything other than magazines or newsletters . |
| 3 | She criticizes the then Foreign Secretary Frances now Lord Pym for the part he played , he would have agreed to a negotiated settlement , she would have regarded that as nothing less than surrender . |
| 4 | It would not be sensible for anyone other than staff with specific responsibilities in this area to get weighed down in mechanical details such as costing the specific details of any aspect of the school 's plans . |
| 5 | ‘ About 50 per cent of our sales are made to women and they tend to buy their men more adventurous underwear than the men buy themselves , ’ says Nicky Lovell , ‘ but British men are becoming more interested in something other than a pair of white underpants . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'm interested in someone other than my seaman , she thought . |
| 8 | Fashion — one silly brainless bitch trying to outdo the others because she 's bored out of her tiny mind and is n't interested in anything other than the way she looks . ’ |
| 9 | He wondered , indeed , if some of the teachers were interested in anything other than getting through to three-thirty , filling up the time with something or other . |
| 10 | I 'm not any more interested in anything permanent than you are . |
| 11 | He had taken this attitude himself , but was finding it very uncomfortable to maintain , after his long years of quiet in the bush , untroubled by anything worse than wind or weather . |
| 12 | One critic expressed fears that it might ‘ … become a new kind of legal aid on the cheap , ’ yet others were concerned lest it be thought that the green form was appropriate for anything other than low-cost proceedings . |
| 13 | It seems that once such a figure has been established there is no need for duplication , but that the necessity for such figures , typical of something larger than themselves without being limited to illustrating a single characteristic , is undeniable . |
| 14 | Additionally , the development of the huge ‘ pot ’ helm , which enclosed all of the head rather than just the skull , made its wearer virtually invulnerable against anything less than a blow delivered with the full weight of a sword or axe . |
| 15 | Special stationery is used for this index , and no subject indexing has been undertaken — retrieval is impossible under anything other than first author . |
| 16 | Some decide that computers have no place whatsoever , some regard computers as cheap and reliable " clerical " labour fit for nothing other than " payroll crunching " , others find a niche for computing in the successful management of the business . |
| 17 | Since the Common Market annually produces such vast quantities of wine fit for nothing better than compulsory distillation , it is puzzling why the authorities still require producers of Coteaux Champenois to churn out as much as one or two pieces of this liquid for every marc pressed . |
| 18 | On the other hand , arguments that freedom is valuable for something other than itself are seldom convincing . |
| 19 | The price of Kevlar will reduce as it becomes more widely used , whereas carbon fibre is so energy-consumptive to manufacture that the likelihood is it will always be too costly for anything other than specialised use in the car industry . |
| 20 | Their mechanical problems merely require diligent examination , but stress levels are high and because a helicopter 's wing must rotate to maintain lift it is terribly unforgiving of anything less than good design , careful maintenance and skilful piloting . |
| 21 | That Saints managed to cause an upset with nothing more than direct running and honest endeavour , bodes well for Great Britain , though the Kiwis can not be expected to enter the Test arena in such a generous mood . |
| 22 | Estimates that creating the Fsx would cost only ¥165 billion ( at 1985 prices ) were good for nothing more than selling the project to parliament which had to vote the money . |
| 23 | It would seem perverse , therefore , to see the deviance of 4 as anything other than syntactic . |
| 24 | From July it will be illegal for anyone other than a vet to carry out the operation . |
| 25 | Both must be considered useful for nothing more than maintaining a battery 's charge . |
| 26 | It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family , Marquesses of Bath , at nearby Longleat ; that may be the case , but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy . |
| 27 | Protestant opposition to integrated schooling is sometimes heard in the North , particularly from the fundamentalist camp , who not only fear catholic infiltration of state schools but are opposed to anything other than Bible protestantism in religious education . |
| 28 | Because of their training doctors are often sceptical of anything other than formal clinical trials and research which produces statistical data . |
| 29 | So feeble had my efforts become that my last entry was concerned with nothing less than my manner of dribbling . |
| 30 | The timing of when to do the turn is particularly important in anything other than in dead flat water , since the slope of even the smallest wave can be used to bank off , thereby helping to maintain speed . |