Example sentences of "[prep] [be] anything [adj] than a " in BNC.

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1 Make sure , too , it is a feeding roll you are seeing and not any other kind of activity — though it is unlikely to be anything other than a feeding roll at that time of day .
2 Through an amplifier , the New York maintains its acoustic brightness and bluntly refuses to be anything other than a blank canvas .
3 For her it was one of the few instances where Susan was allowed to be anything other than a 15-year-old schoolgirl .
4 In other words , Offa may never have wished this to be anything other than a wholly Mercian ceremony .
5 It 's as good a theory as any to explain it , because lord knows I never intended this to be anything other than a business arrangement . ’
6 If you guys really want to be anything more than a footnote in the annals of British history get this — ‘ Egalitarianism is for Losers ’ .
7 To put it another way , bargaining provides the cement essential if the American polity is to be anything more than a conglomeration of unintegrated fragments .
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