Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In case of equality of votes , it was provided by the Act 1707 c8 that the presiding commissioner should have a casting vote , besides his own as commissioner , and that the commissioners from the different burghs should preside , in turn , in the order in which their burghs were called in the roll of the Scottish Parliament . |
| 32 | A born again green within the ranks of the Tory party , he was not looked upon with anything other than derision . |
| 33 | Believing our intellectual abilities to be God-given , he presumably thought that , had they not been sufficient for our needs , God would not have supplemented them by innately endowing us with anything other than truth . |
| 34 | He could n't have reacted with anything other than disgust . |
| 35 | With so much land to be disposed of , it was hard to make them put up with anything less than freehold tenure , and so it was almost impossible for the proprietors to make very much out of their estates . |
| 36 | Sort of austere and pissed off with anything less than perfection in the world . |
| 37 | The tasks identified for coordinators by the Authority could not be carried out with anything less than enactor status . |
| 38 | Nevertheless , a little humility does not ill become the social scientist , and a contribution to theory , no matter how small , which derives from careful enquiry , is more worthy of the accolade ‘ scholarship ’ than is the sweeping generalization based upon nothing more than armchair speculation . |
| 39 | Paviour greeted the visitor with immaculate politeness , but a certain air of acid disapproval which might well have stemmed from nothing more than nervousness . |
| 40 | And you can manufacture bucketfuls of this marvellous stuff from nothing more than kitchen waste . |
| 41 | Texts cohere , so cohesion within a text ( texture ) , depends upon something other than structure ; it is a property of the text as such , and not of any structural unit such as a clause or sentence . |
| 42 | Aestheticism , l'art pour l'art , is identified , and impaled , in Hérédia ( though with a beguiling hesitancy — ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ one tends to conclude ’ ) ; to aim for the poetic ends up in something other than poetry , or else in inferior poetry . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | A few people thought I was making a living in something other than fashion , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 45 | Diversion — changing the subject to focus upon anything other than alcohol consumption or drug use and its consequences : " My real problem is … " vii Hostility — open attack at any mention of Chemical Dependency and its consequences , let alone mention of the words " alcoholism " , " drug addiction " , " alcoholic " or " addict " . |
| 46 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 47 | In practice , legislation generally forbids such data being held thus and distributed in anything other than area aggregate form ; the cross-tabulations commonly employed ( e.g. to give tables of population numbers broken down by age and sex ) often result in a great multiplication of the data volumes . |
| 48 | With the trend towards mainstreaming or integration , relatively few deaf children now need communication in anything other than speech . |
| 49 | They are unacceptable in drinking water in anything more than trace concentrations , and there is increasing evidence of organochlorine contamination in water-supply boreholes . |
| 50 | Rose Shepherd goes on to argue that a first affair , usually based on attraction , leads to further affairs based on nothing more than boredom , loneliness , resentment , or the need for further boosting of confidence once the first extramarital partner has bowed out . |
| 51 | The act of shipping the barley in Maynegrain was assumed to be sufficient to amount to conversion , but the position is different where the defendant innocently interferes with P 's goods whether upon his own initiative or upon the instructions of another , when the defendant 's act amounts to nothing more than transport or custody of the goods . |
| 52 | What a dreadful day that was , and I was on my own because Uncle had to go away to attend to business matters . |
| 53 | That was what was happening though , and the foot in question belonged to none other than mine hostess . |
| 54 | The most radical Westerners , following a path very close to that of the Petrashevtsy , aspired to something more than liberalism and embraced socialism . |
| 55 | Thus we can see that there is a broad variety of approaches which we may group under the heading of ‘ natural law theories ’ because they all rely on something other than state law to constitute the valid rules of a legal system . |
| 56 | But no amphibian can truthfully be described as nimble and for hunting they have to rely on something other than agility their tongue . |
| 57 | A firm principle with this kind of automatic system is restriction of access to anyone other than maintenance and inventory control personnel , in which case a strict control is kept upon crane operation . |
| 58 | I prefer Peter Hobbs ' WIDE BOY , who came back to his best when runner-up to Fragrant Dawn at Newbury . |
| 59 | he started up on his own when father stopped . |
| 60 | To base a property tax on anything other than capital values would be perverse — even if alternatives like imputed rents and floor-space footage were inherently sensible , which they are not — and ways to compile and update the necessary data have already been examined in detail . |