Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they get thrown when faced with a canvas which represents nothing other than form or shape or colour and they get thrown because they have n't the vocabulary , it seems to them , to respond to it , and they feel the need to respond verbally . |
| 2 | Lord Lane speaks not only for Lord Lane , but for the whole of society , to which Lord Lane represents nothing less than Lord Lane himself . |
| 3 | The kitchen has two cookers , a big plastic dustbin , two sets of tables and chairs and a tall fridge , which rarely has anything other than milk in it . |
| 4 | I always says its longer than Hamlet and not as funny . |
| 5 | Also , am I right in saying that the aforementioned album features none other than NME man Sherman ? |
| 6 | create the illusion that the ‘ dangerous ’ class is primarily located at the bottom of various hierarchies by which we ‘ measure ’ each other , such as occupational prestige , income level , housing market location , educational achievement , racial attributes — in this illusion it fuses relative poverty and criminal propensities and sees them both as effects of moral inferiority , thus rendering the ‘ dangerous ’ class deserving of both poverty and punishment ; |
| 7 | The milestone , though , interests him less than victory . |
| 8 | But he rarely wears anything other than jeans and a T-shirt whatever the occasion . |
| 9 | But he rarely wears anything other than jeans and a T-shirt whatever the occasion . |
| 10 | Ray Wilkins rates him better than Gazza . |
| 11 | It enjoys nothing more than people 's lives being destroyed — including our own . |
| 12 | In most cases having a piped water supply means nothing more than stand-pipes set up here and there from which water has to be carried to the houses . |
| 13 | Indeed , strengthening the petty-bourgeois economy means none other than apportionment on the basis of commodity circulation of the buyer-up , the trade capitalist and owner . |
| 14 | But the slogan , however carelessly drafted , means something more than banality ; it stands for an attitude that is important and open to challenge . |
| 15 | I should have remembered : our new management likes nothing better than doing things on the cheap . |
| 16 | If it does nothing more than act as an educational lubricant or leaven , it serves its purpose well , by enriching minds , broadening outlooks , removing prejudice and opening vistas . |
| 17 | ‘ I think Mr McQuaid does himself less than credit with that talk , ’ Moran said with quiet dignity . |
| 18 | That is , their meanings are not ‘ given ’ by some set of facts , but rather by the way in which these facts are interpreted by observers in a form that makes them recognisable as crimes , mental illnesses or cases of child abuse . |
| 19 | I. Lastly , if use-values which do embody surplus-value are used by unproductive workers they can not be productive of further surplus-value , even though the material form makes them suitable as capital . |
| 20 | The notorious ambiguity of Locke 's conception of property , which at times means " Lives , Liberties and Estates " , and at other only " Estates " or property in the ordinary sense , also makes it unclear whether government exists for the benefit of all , or only for property-owners in the usual sense . |
| 21 | Which incidentally makes it larger than agriculture . |
| 22 | It makes our earlier romancing-where love would sadly bloom in a car park or with bitter words before a shop window dribbling with rain — seem downright courtly . |