Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can think of nothing worse than Kinnock coming into power . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rachel and Nicky love getting up to their elbows in gloop , a slimy mixture of nothing more than cornflour mixed with water and food colouring . |
| 4 | A daily diet consisting of nothing more than bread and sultana water ( a drink made with coffee bean husks ) is commonplace . |
| 5 | Because Nicholas himself had entertained such dreams in passing , Pogodin could be accused at this stage of nothing more than super-patriotism . |
| 6 | But when he had asked her to marry him , she had declined out of nothing more than pique . |
| 7 | My first example would sound like this : ‘ The trade balance is One BILL ION Pounds in the red … ’ — pronounced ‘ bill -yun ’ with a strange rising cadence that reminds me of nothing more than Leslie Crowther : ‘ A bill -yun pounds — come on down ! ! ! ’ |
| 8 | And if I handle all with my own hands , and keep the prince clear of it — though he knows my mind , and it is his mind , too — I do so to preserve him from harassment by those who will hear of nothing less than Owen 's head on London Bridge . |
| 9 | There are numerous by-products from these plants , most of them useful as chemicals and the rest as fuel . |
| 10 | , John , second Baron Revelstoke ( 1863–1929 ) , merchant banker , was born 7 September 1863 in Kingston upon Thames , the eldest in the family of five sons and three daughters ( another two sons , one of them older than John , died in infancy ) of Edward Charles Baring , later first Baron Revelstoke , of London and Membland , Devon , and his wife , Louisa Emily Charlotte , daughter of John Crocker Bulteel of Lyneham , Devon . |
| 11 | of their own when quarterback Billy Boyd threw the ball to tight end John Addie . |
| 12 | ‘ In the case of a multi-national partnership of which fewer than 75% of the principals are solicitors , any overseas offices of the Practice shall be deemed to form a Separate Practice from its offices in England and Wales . ’ |
| 13 | This explained why LGS was not used by mothers to treat many of the cases of loose stool presented by children , since the mothers ' diagnosis was of one other than daeria . |
| 14 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 15 | Between half and two-thirds of smokers die of something other than smoking . |
| 16 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 17 | as if he were made of something finer than flesh and bone ; finer than yellow earth . |
| 18 | Fox had completed his examination of the vandalized room and his report was conclusive : no prints , fresh or otherwise , of anyone other than Alfred himself . |
| 19 | Kate was given no opportunity to observe the reaction of anyone other than Lady Ursula to Paul Berowne 's death . |
| 20 | Santerre , however , had problems of his own as Mandeville , assisted by Southgate and a servile Bowyer , had the great hall cleared and turned into a shire court . |
| 21 | I repeat what I have said many times : I do not know of any person who pays taxes out of anything other than income . |
| 22 | Without relying on pre-1975 cases , Lord Diplock interpreted section 2(3) ( 4 ) as excluding the obtaining , by oral deposition or the disclosure of documents , of anything other than evidence which would be admissible at the trial of the action . |
| 23 | All I could offer was a hatchback whose tyres puncture as soon as it catches sight of anything other than motorway . |