Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] than [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tell Connie all about it , ’ she invited , relieved to have , for a time , someone other than Memet upon whom to focus her attention , someone more miserable than herself and more … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Older children prefer humour to violence , says Moffat , and when it comes to watching adult television , they like nothing better than soaps like Neighbours and Home and Away , which may tackle tough issues , but approach them with a certain old-fashioned morality , and contain little violence . |
| 4 | Many times Louisa had wished that the woman might weep as her husband had done , might permit something deeper than care for her creature comforts to reach her . |
| 5 | As the Indian Divisions ' official history records the fact , the men of the 4th had , at Alamein , ‘ been something more than spectators and something less than participants in the main battle . |
| 6 | Perhaps there was something more than coherence at stake . |
| 7 | The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe — so long as it 's something more than belief in your own comfort . |
| 8 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 9 | We may need something stronger than tea after what I 'm going to tell you . ’ |
| 10 | Despite the fact that both mother and teacher said that he was always like this , it happened on average three times a day only after he was asked to do something other than play by himself . |
| 11 | Impassioned sequences in which the " poetry " consisted of nothing more than strings of synonyms were merely the extreme example of a tendency that was apparent throughout the work . |
| 12 | It 's about time somebody killed this ‘ debate ’ dead in its tracks , even if it meant stating the obvious ; that postmodernism is nothing more than Situationism without the socialism , the archetypal assimilation of revolutionary technique and terminology . |
| 13 | These securities and the interest they collect are notional : they amount to nothing more than claims on the taxes and loans that the Treasury will have to raise when they are redeemed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There are far too many places advertising ‘ conference facilities ’ that offer nothing more than rooms of different sizes . |
| 16 | Others ( including the " type " bioherms in Indiana ) were nothing more than heaps of crinoid debris . |
| 17 | Heat is nothing more than energy of atoms in motion , so if you can slow down atoms , you are in effect cooling them . |
| 18 | If the materially minded evolutionists were right and mind patterns whether in humans or animals are genetically transmitted as nothing more than expressions of biochemistry , then why do dogs still retain the same instincts as the wolf ? |
| 19 | All of the actors , especially Hoffman , are nothing more than stooges to Peckinpah 's notions of perversity , degradation , and dung heap characterisation … this putrid , wholly offensive and nauseating snotball of a film … two hours of a running sewer disgorging human waste … |
| 20 | And this can so easily be the case , for such premises are instilled into the scientific mind set at an early age , becoming accepted points of reference , though really they are often nothing more than habits of thought . |
| 21 | We know little of the living conditions of the people of Halling at this period , but examples of other area 's tell us that life for the village labouring class was hard with few comforts , houses being often nothing more than hovels with earth packed floors on which rushes would be strewn . |
| 22 | They are nothing less than soapboxes for critical sporting fans . |
| 23 | But after that Pete had sworn that he 'd touch nothing stronger than tapwater for the rest of the evening , and so far he 'd been sticking to it . |
| 24 | Ca n't imagine anyone better than Emma for sorting things out , really . ’ |
| 25 | It took him more than 30 years before he told anyone other than friends of his terrifying experience . |
| 26 | It would not be sensible for anyone other than staff with specific responsibilities in this area to get weighed down in mechanical details such as costing the specific details of any aspect of the school 's plans . |
| 27 | Instrumentation is a branch of engineering , and engineering is nothing other than application of the laws , theories , hypotheses and principles of theoretical physics . |
| 28 | Having something to do was better than sitting doing nothing other than wait for the first shell . |
| 29 | Neither seems remotely interested in the characters they invent as anything more than reflections of authorial narcissism . |
| 30 | But there are four reasons why these years should not be used as anything more than points on a continuum . |