Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adj] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now , he was having to unveil himself for nothing more than curious inspection . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 4 | It has been a tactic of both supporters and opponents of economic and monetary union to play down the significance of these proposals , the first saying that monetary union will not significantly compromise sovereignty , the others sometimes dismissing talk of European union as nothing more than Euro-waffle . |
| 5 | In addition , there are also examples of a more eclectic but " static " figural sequence , whose composite arrangements are extremely rich in figures but whose figures are linked only conceptually or are envisaged as nothing more than numerous , individual representations . |
| 6 | This part of the ceremony was regarded as nothing more than formal ritual . |
| 7 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 8 | Some social scientists did : most ignored the debate because it was , frankly , naive ( and often consisted of nothing more than special pleading from scientists working for institutions that had much to lose ) . |
| 9 | That answer smacks of nothing less than smug complacency . |
| 10 | Firstly , the examples of what you see as excessive zeal in Welsh preparations for a recent home international match — male-voice choir , song-sheets , operatic soprano and pre-match player introductions — are surely symptoms of something other than nationalist fervour . |
| 11 | It implies that 90% of the universe is composed of something other than everyday atoms — swarms of exotic particles never seen on earth . |
| 12 | When somebody dies of something other than natural causes almost all civilised countries , except those engaged in war or civil rebellion , have a legal procedure under which the cause of the death is investigated . |
| 13 | The Divisional Court , presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker , emphasized that there had to be a ‘ real possibility ’ of a breach of the peace , but went on to find that just such a situation of menace existed here : eighteen people ‘ milling about ’ when there were only eight people in the works created a ‘ real danger of something more than mere picketing ’ . |
| 14 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 15 | The idea arose from fears expressed in western industrialized countries that the free market of ideas was being threatened by the fact that the prohibitive costs of entry into media ownership prevented the involvement of anyone other than rich individuals or large corporations . |
| 16 | IBM Corp has agreed to pay the US government $14.8m to settle that potential False Claims Act civil suit after IBM admitted to providing reconditioned or remanufactured computer equipment to the US government between 1980 and 1990 , contrary to contract provisions — under the contract , IBM was required to notify the government prior to delivery of anything other than new equipment , and the investigation revealed that IBM delivered approximately 15,000 reconditioned or remanufactured machines to the government ; IBM voluntarily owned up that it might not have fulfilled its obligations under the contract after conducting an internal audit . |
| 17 | Further , the physical and sexual abuse of women , which the evidence shows is much more widespread than is popularly believed , can not be understood in terms of anything other than patriarchal relations . |
| 18 | Because of their training doctors are often sceptical of anything other than formal clinical trials and research which produces statistical data . |
| 19 | Despite the lack of anything other than basic equipment for its armed forces , according to Nato estimates Romania topped the league of non-Soviet Warsaw Pact arms exporters to the Third World by the mid 1980s . |
| 20 | The line of argument depends upon two principal features : ( a ) there is a need to produce an oven justification for practices which might be criticized and this justification must explain racial discrimination in terms of anything other than irrational preferences ; ( b ) the discourse implies that irrational preference would be morally bad and the good intentions of the speaker , and those whom the speaker justifies , are guaranteed if they are shown to differ from those who might act on the basis of irrational prejudices . |
| 21 | Even the Diet did not immediately call for offensive action against Russia , but it decided to do so when the tsar refused to negotiate on the basis of anything less than abject Polish submission . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | To advocate a policy of anything less than unlimited release of all information as soon as the investigator has discovered it represents heresy to the media , giving rise to accusations of cover-up and officials being excessively secretive , while the legal profession are liable to take on a more aggressive attitude by suggesting incompetence and serving subpoenae requiring the compulsory production of evidence in court . |
| 24 | Neither was there evidence of anything more than superficial surface treatment . |
| 25 | Of course , as Vietnam proved all too clearly , it 's pretty handy to have a war knocking about if you want peace songs to sound like anything other than pathetic , drippy platitudes . |
| 26 | Of course , as Vietnam proved all too clearly , it 's pretty handy to have a war knocking about if you want peace songs to sound like anything other than pathetic , drippy platitudes . |
| 27 | By doing this , the Chancellor was beginning to recognise the rights of the family against the grantee as something more than personal . |
| 28 | In the second year of recovery the recurrent cravings have mostly subsided and people in recovery develop progressively more insight into the nature of addictive disease in general and their own addictive disease in particular and also into the true , broader , meaning of recovery as something more than mere avoidance of previous addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 29 | To some temperaments it may seem that in crediting myself only with a capacity to choose between reactions which themselves are not chosen but caused , I would be representing myself as something less than human . |
| 30 | Shetland 's own Norman Lamont fortifies himself with nothing stronger than Scottish spring water . |