Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] than [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight 's entertainment takes the form of a knockout darts competition , and your host for the evening is none other than TV superstar Jim Bowen . |
| 2 | IT 'S the Paul Gascoigne of his day … none other than TV pundit Jimmy Greaves . |
| 3 | That was what was happening though , and the foot in question belonged to none other than mine hostess . |
| 4 | None other than Food Label entrepreneur ANDY ROSS . |
| 5 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 6 | Thus we can see that there is a broad variety of approaches which we may group under the heading of ‘ natural law theories ’ because they all rely on something other than state law to constitute the valid rules of a legal system . |
| 7 | If only she drank something other than herb tea . |
| 8 | Such thorough excavators probably need something other than undergravel filtration |
| 9 | With breast-fed babies who are thought to have food sensitivity , the first step is to check that it is not something other than breast milk causing the problem . |
| 10 | And you can manufacture bucketfuls of this marvellous stuff from nothing more than kitchen waste . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , a little humility does not ill become the social scientist , and a contribution to theory , no matter how small , which derives from careful enquiry , is more worthy of the accolade ‘ scholarship ’ than is the sweeping generalization based upon nothing more than armchair speculation . |
| 12 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 13 | Yet so far I seem to have been treating nothing worse than chicken pox and ‘ flu . |
| 14 | There 's nothing worse than stomach ache |
| 15 | If I wanted to be happy I should have avoided the pub altogether , or at least had nothing stronger than mineral water . |
| 16 | Note that suppliers are not obliged to offer anything more than cash compensation . |
| 17 | With so much land to be disposed of , it was hard to make them put up with anything less than freehold tenure , and so it was almost impossible for the proprietors to make very much out of their estates . |
| 18 | The tasks identified for coordinators by the Authority could not be carried out with anything less than enactor status . |
| 19 | Have you ever wanted to do anything other than play music ? |
| 20 | The shares , which were up 1 to 27p in London yesterday , are still speculative at this stage and it is likely to be 1993 before they are supported by anything other than hope value . |
| 21 | In practice , legislation generally forbids such data being held thus and distributed in anything other than area aggregate form ; the cross-tabulations commonly employed ( e.g. to give tables of population numbers broken down by age and sex ) often result in a great multiplication of the data volumes . |
| 22 | Protestant opposition to integrated schooling is sometimes heard in the North , particularly from the fundamentalist camp , who not only fear catholic infiltration of state schools but are opposed to anything other than Bible protestantism in religious education . |
| 23 | they want to talk about anything other than crime prevention |
| 24 | Diversion — changing the subject to focus upon anything other than alcohol consumption or drug use and its consequences : " My real problem is … " vii Hostility — open attack at any mention of Chemical Dependency and its consequences , let alone mention of the words " alcoholism " , " drug addiction " , " alcoholic " or " addict " . |
| 25 | Not the way it is today , when on the rare occasion an employee accompanies a guest here , he is likely to be some newcomer who has little to say about anything other than Association Football , and who prefers to pass the evening not by the fire of the servants ' hall , but drinking at the Ploughman 's Arms — or indeed , as seems increasingly likely nowadays , at the Star Inn . |
| 26 | Can I , for the benefit of members opposite who , who always seem to believe that people on this side of the chamber are townies and do n't know anything about anything other than street lighting for the benefit of members opposite and for the public gallery outside , can I say that in my younger days , a million years ago , I rode with hunt . |
| 27 | Because , she thought , she had never been there with anyone who was interested in taking it at anything other than face value . |