Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A business day means any weekday other than Christmas Day , Good Friday or any bank holiday . |
| 2 | Dunedin , however , has no front-end fee for its share plan other than stamp duty . |
| 3 | I 'd rather live in Farmhouse Grim than Château Molesworth . |
| 4 | It has to incorporate a wide range of factors and develop methods of investigation other than laboratory experiments . |
| 5 | No apparent reason for the liver failure other than interferon alfa treatment could be detected in any of the patients . |
| 6 | The research has drawn attention to the many ways of creating worthwhile opportunities for talk and collaboration , for learning in a group and as a group other than structuring tasks for cooperative working . |
| 7 | Forms of credit other than hire purchase were largely neighbourhood based . |
| 8 | Another study by Luoma ( 1988 ) reports data for some details of the environment other than road signs , in particular houses , roadside advertisements and pedestrian crossing lines on the road . |
| 9 | This raises the possibility that a mechanism other than substrate diversion is involved or that the various eicosanoids arise from different cellular sources and substrate diversion only occurred in a cell capable of synthesising LTB 4 but not LTC 4 . |
| 10 | Records still give no indications of use other than corn milling , but by the 1690s a fulling mill and dye house had been added , possibly much earlier . |
| 11 | The tenant should nevertheless consider whether it wishes the specified risks to include subsidence , the sprinkler system ( if any ) , aerial devices other than aircraft and impact other than road vehicles , among others . |
| 12 | The proposed closure of the USM , though not before the end of 1996 ( it will remain open to new entrants until the end of next year ) has thrown sharply into focus the debate on how smaller companies find a way of closing the much quoted ‘ equity gap ’ which they and their advisers have long argued makes it harder for them to raise any significant degree of long-term capital other than debt finance . |
| 13 | It will have power to delay all legislation other than money bills for up to two years . |
| 14 | How do smaller companies meet their capital raising requirements , particularly in emergence from recession ; particularly in the face of venture capitalists , many of whom have become more renowned for risk averse than risk taking strategies ; particularly in the face of clearing banks ' policy which does not exactly involve them rushing to throw loan finance about as they emerge from one of the most traumatic periods in their history ; and particularly in the face of the closure of the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) with no successor currently in sight ? |
| 15 | For no real reason other than tradition samples are normally passed through a forty five mu sieve or membrane filter . |
| 16 | The first … is the arrangement for bringing to the Joint Intelligence Organisation 's attention information other than intelligence reports . |
| 17 | Only seven people had experience of paid employment other than government work schemes , and four of these were employed before they acquired their impairment — they had not worked since . |
| 18 | She has no legal income other than state benefits . |
| 19 | Sources of income other than unemployment benefits and earnings do matter , but less than benefits and earnings ( similar results appear in Atkinson , et al. |
| 20 | Although his head office sent the branch all the goods sold by the branch in Year 41 , Mr Messy did not record how much was sent and kept no records at the branch other than branch sales . |
| 21 | Some libraries want their own library group others are quite happy to be joined in with one or more libraries within the adjoining group and the constitution does in fact provide that investment wish what we have n't said what those who should be at maximum membership membership and to their claim will common sense not to make it too large otherwise it might turn out to be more than than sensible discussion among a reasonable amount of people but this but then to decide that equally to encourage them to ah find ways and means of the public other than library users who will be represented on the committee and to that . |
| 22 | There was no evidence in these miners that a radon-rich atmosphere increased the risk of any cancer other than lung cancer . |
| 23 | High scores on the depression scale suggest that treatment other than anxiety management might also be considered . |
| 24 | First , medical treatment other than symptom control or management is uncalled-for as a matter of law and , indeed , is inappropriate ; not only is it unethical conduct , but the doctor could also be subject to legal sanction . |
| 25 | When learners are called upon to use the language being learned for some communicative purpose , a purpose other than language practice , then they will be naturally disposed to draw upon the systemic resources which have proved serviceable in the past for the achievement of indexical meaning . |
| 26 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 27 | With the number of trees lost in the gales of autumn 1987 and again in 1990 , surely we can devise some material other than timber products , to end up burnt or rotting in the earth ? |
| 28 | Large British forces had been tied up in an expensive operation to which there seemed to be no obvious military solution other than counter-guerrilla operations in Sabah and Sarawak and the deployment of large forces to discourage further escalation of the conflict . |
| 29 | In other words , vocational training in general practice will become the minimum standard for practice of any form of medicine other than specialist practice , or training for such . |