Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] anything [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not imagine that , as Sir Russell was granted that post , he is regarded as anything other than a man with eminently good sense . |
| 2 | Plenty of fissures , but nowhere to hide for anything bigger than a lizard . |
| 3 | Grandmasters were a little surprised by Yusupov 's decision to surrender his bishop for a knight on move 22 , but the resulting position never looked like ending in anything other than a draw . |
| 4 | This location is almost impossible to reach in anything less than a Jeep . |
| 5 | There is a lower standard of proof required in civil cases , balance of probability , as opposed to the ‘ beyond reasonable doubt ’ needed in criminal trials and Lord Prosser commented : ‘ It is undesirable in the public interest , as well as in Mr Anderson 's interest , that a finding of probable murder be made in anything other than a supreme court . ’ |
| 6 | If the Community is built on anything other than a recognition that people and nations often disagree and argue , then it will blow apart in time , or , worse , have to maintained by ever more centralised power . |
| 7 | ‘ Anyone who is budgeting for anything other than a flat position is being optimistic . |
| 8 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 9 | These petty morals , partly overlapping , form a cascade of precepts none of which amounts to anything more than a trite platitude . |
| 10 | The room was lit by a number of small reading lamps , none powered by anything stronger than a sixty-watt bulb . |
| 11 | He had never flown in anything other than a Tiger Moth so her requested that his name be put forward for a short Washington sortie . |
| 12 | Experiments show that many tolerate a wide range of light conditions , but a few high polar species perform best in long day regimes , or refuse to flower in anything less than a 22–24-hour day . |
| 13 | We know Compaq wrote the specification when it was still a ploy — Systems Network Integration says they even have a prototype up and running — but whether this can ever amount to anything more than a high-end PC depends on sorting out fact from propaganda . |
| 14 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 15 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 16 | But at this stage the problem for research has not been defined at anything more than a very general level . |
| 17 | Recently published Dataquest figures indicate a potential market size of $300 million by 1990 but with less that a year of history to go on this can hardly be taken as anything more than a guideline . |
| 18 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 19 | But if you put all of these together , do they amount to anything more than a restorationist position ? |
| 20 | The statement said that Simranjit Singh Mann , the Akali Dal leader who had held talks with Shekhar in December , had no right to speak on their behalf and that they " would not settle for anything less than a separate state " . |
| 21 | When he had first come to Maythorpe House as an ignorant thirteen-year-old who had never before lived in anything grander than a tiny gardener 's cottage , he had felt awed and frightened , and unable to grasp that this huge place was now his home . |