Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bastardy law , on the other hand , remained extremely harsh , with the result that the unmarried mother who was rejected by her family had very little recourse other than the workhouse . |
| 2 | I know nothing about this case other than the reports which I , like everybody else , have read in the press . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) A licensing board shall not make any arrangements under subsection ( 1 ) above for the discharge of any of the following functions : ( a ) making a decision on the application for the grant , including the provisional grant , of a new licence ; ( b ) making a decision on an application for the renewal of a licence where a competent objection has been lodged ; making a decision to refuse to grant the renewal of a licence ; making a decision on the permanent transfer of a licence ; ( c ) making a decision on an application for a regular extension of permitted hours ; ( d ) making a decision on the restriction of the terminal permitted hour ; making a decision on an application for restoration of restricted hours ; ( e ) making a decision on an application for Sunday opening under Part 1 of Schedule 4 to this Act other than an application and 13 of that Schedule where no objection is made in relation to the application ; ( f ) making a decision as regards a Sunday restriction order or the revocation of such an order under Part II of Schedule 4 to this Act ; making a decision on the suspension of a licence ; making a decision on a closure order . |
| 4 | To do so suggests that Gregory 's narrative at this point is genuine history rather than legend , which may have some basis other than a purely factual one . |
| 5 | To counteract this , one must consider growing few plants other than the all important submerged oxygenating plants , or else arresting the turbulence by placing beneath the fountain a large ring which is of greater diameter than the lower bowl . |
| 6 | There is no duty to disclose information provided by or on behalf of another person other than an employee of the local education authority , an education welfare officer or the person seeking disclosure . |
| 7 | Thus , where specific goods are to be weighed or tested , etc. , by some person other than the seller , property will pass under Rule 1 or Rule 2 unless the parties have agreed otherwise . |
| 8 | It is immaterial that the accused uses force on some person other than the one from whom he takes the item . |
| 9 | As part of their representations on the 1981 Finance Bill , the Law Society recommended that income should not be " relevant income " to the extent that it was paid away to some person other than the recipient of the relevant benefit either before or after the receipt of the relevant benefit as it had by then ceased to be available as a source of funds out of which the relevant benefit could be paid . |
| 10 | That para states that as a result of the decision in Re Duomatic Ltd ( 1969 ) 1 All ER 161 , if , on some occasion other than the annual general meeting , the shareholders agree to remunerate the directors with certain sums , then that agreement has the same force as a resolution passed in a general meeting . |
| 11 | The street of the storytellers in Peshawar , Pakistan ; a desert island in the Indian Ocean , the magnificent Iguazu Falls in Argentina , the Potala in Tibet and the gigantic statues of Easter Island had , until recently , been seen by few people other than the local population , explorers , archaeologists or anthropologists , yet they are all included in the pages of current travel brochures . |
| 12 | This rule does not apply to an action for the recovery of land , where the return day is that of the final hearing ( N5 — 6 ) , unless a claim is joined for some relief other than the payment of mesne profits or arrears of rent or for moneys secured by a mortgage or charge ( Ord 3 , r 3(4) ) . |
| 13 | However , a party can not evade the Act by a choice of law clause providing for the contract to be governed by the law of some state other than the UK . |
| 14 | In poor light , the effect is much less marked but there is still more of the disc visible , particularly if the model is against some background other than the sky . |
| 15 | It was n't until the weekend that he started to pine for some entertainment other than the sight of himself in the bathroom mirror . |
| 16 | In order to determine the probabilities of such singular histories , one would have to invoke some principle other than the known laws of science . |
| 17 | If the answer to that question can not be verbalised succinctly then the meeting must have served some purpose other than the interchange of information fields ( it may for example have had a social value or a " credit " assessment value ) . |
| 18 | It is a possibility that AFHQ could have learned of the huge body of Croat troops approaching Austria on 14 May from some source other than the main signals already referred to . |
| 19 | Tycho Brahé opted out of the Copernican research programme and initiated another when he proposed that all planets other than the earth orbit the sun , while the sun itself orbits a stationary earth . |
| 20 | The thesis assumes that all enemies other than the Soviet Union will have second-rate weapons . |
| 21 | Third parties to international adjudication are all States other than the applicant or respondent . |
| 22 | If all sectors other than the state sector are competitive , the prices in that sector should equal marginal cost . |
| 23 | On all models other than the RL/RLD , the backrest is split 60/40 for the optimum level of versatility . |
| 24 | The total number of eligible beneficiaries was 29 in 1963 and 32 in the subsequent relevant years and they were all persons other than the two settlors . |
| 25 | This encompasses the costs of all cartage , both on and off the mine , of all materials other than the ore fit for market . |
| 26 | History , then , may serve many masters other than the principle of an objective , " total " reconstruction of past reality . |
| 27 | I have often suggested that a good place to look for worthwhile ideas is in the bankruptcy fields , for failure can he due to so many causes other than the failure of the basic concept ( poor management , cash-flow problems , dainty investors , competition at the time , technical problems , etc . ) . |
| 28 | There are many benefits other than the retirement pension . |
| 29 | The effect of this provision is to deprive all employees other than the purchasing director of apparent authority to agree to variation of the terms . |
| 30 | After all , what did the Marshal himself remember about that morning other than the snow ? |