Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Elizabeth Mowbray was baffled by the girl 's refusal to see the matter in its true light and more than a little troubled by what she was beginning to see as something other than a passing infatuation . |
| 35 | Irigaray goes further , exalting the metaphor of homosexuality as a kind of anti-difference into nothing less than a far-reaching theory of patriarchal society . |
| 36 | One developed into nothing more than a simple ball of cells with no gut at all , the other into a more or less normal larva . |
| 37 | If the proposals of early 1858 reached the statute book , " The whole of Russia will turn into nothing more than a military colony ( obratitsia v odno voennoe poselenie ) , and who will save it from the new Arakcheev who is emerging in the person of Iakov Ivanovich Rostovtsev ? " |
| 38 | Everyone is keen to see otter , but again they prove elusive and we round the north of the island with nothing other than a few passing gannet , some tysties and shags and a couple of rabbits spotted among the peaty banks . |
| 39 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 40 | The Open University freaks have taken so many short cuts that they are rudderless ships on that same deep ocean which you , most probably , crossed with nothing more than a paddle or ragged bit of sail under a stiff breeze and with a lively brain . |
| 41 | I defy anyone to enter upon altered states of reality with nothing more than a bottle of Trumper 's shampoo and an almost-empty tube of Guerlain 's Habit Rouge face balm . |
| 42 | Each chariot is drawn by two fine Elven steeds and carries a single Tiranoc noble who controls the chariot with nothing more than a spoken word . |
| 43 | With nothing more than a saw , pocket knife and file he resolved how to let just the right amount of ink out and air in , and made a fountain pen to his own design . |
| 44 | Together , the Big Five laid the foundations of the distinctive Scottish systems of a small number of large banks with extensive networks , as opposed to say the English pattern of thousands of small banks with nothing more than a local presence . |
| 45 | Many of us sometimes need to talk through our anxieties with someone other than a friend and the Samaritans are always glad to listen . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 ! |
| 48 | Horace is a highly allusive poet ; names of personages real and mythical fill the Odes , and nearly always with something more than a merely decorative intent . |
| 49 | But with anything less than a gale the house filled with smoke and the door had to be opened . |
| 50 | We ca n't send Karen to the boring Isle of Man with anything less than a nineteen-carat hangover , can we ? ’ |
| 51 | The prince , who took his force into Wales from Chester in good tight order , and at every mile ensured his lines behind him , was on his guard against his own instinctive enthusiasm as well as against Welsh armies , and knew enough about them by this time to feel no surprise that he should probe ever more deeply and carefully into North Wales , and never touch hands with anything more than a darting patrol , gone almost as soon as sighted . |
| 52 | The results of this experiment would seem to preclude an analysis of the acoustic waveform by the acoustic-phonetic component into anything other than a single string of phonemes . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 56 | Mrs Guest was born to polite society , but broke with convention as a wayward débutante , taking to the stage and sitting for Diego Rivera in something less than a presentation gown . |
| 57 | When he had first come to Maythorpe House as an ignorant thirteen-year-old who had never before lived in anything grander than a tiny gardener 's cottage , he had felt awed and frightened , and unable to grasp that this huge place was now his home . |
| 58 | Grandmasters were a little surprised by Yusupov 's decision to surrender his bishop for a knight on move 22 , but the resulting position never looked like ending in anything other than a draw . |
| 59 | If fact , if it had n't been for Finch 's increasing drinking problem , he himself would never have behaved on the set in anything other than a professional way . |
| 60 | He had never flown in anything other than a Tiger Moth so her requested that his name be put forward for a short Washington sortie . |