Example sentences of "with something [adj] than [art] " in BNC.

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1 However , as transcripts of spontaneous speech like the one above illustrate , the listener who is attempting to understand spoken language is often being confronted with something other than a string of sentences .
2 for three hours with a sur as the surgeon battled to save his life well I 'd have thought they could have plugged wounds with something other than a finger !
3 If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event .
4 Horace is a highly allusive poet ; names of personages real and mythical fill the Odes , and nearly always with something more than a merely decorative intent .
5 She had grown heavier in her enforced stillness , her body was ripe and full that had been so slender , and moved with something less than the old negligent grace .
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