Example sentences of "by [indef pn] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was inspired , it is argued , by nothing higher than a desire for self-advertisement and for the applause of Voltaire and his fellow-writers in Western Europe . |
| 2 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |
| 3 | Substitute anxiety in the spectator , he wrote , brought about by nothing other than the apparent lack of anxiety in the image . |
| 4 | ‘ If by nothing other than the stone , the mystery and , ’ confidentially , ‘ the human sacrifice . ’ |
| 5 | For , if people and Parliament come to think that the judicial power is to be confined by nothing other than the judge 's sense of what is right ( or , as Selden put it , by the length of the Chancellor 's foot ) , confidence in the judicial system will be replaced by fear of it becoming uncertain and arbitrary in its application . |
| 6 | The king was furious at being tricked again , and by nothing more than a pair of animals , at that . |
| 7 | I think of the eclectic women on baby blankets , bare beside picnic baskets and one another , pleased to be sated by nothing more than a book and a cigarette , a glass of cider and a chat or a piece of quiche , meatless , of course . |
| 8 | If it is the case that we are motivated by nothing more than the need to reproduce , then it makes sense that women are programmed to be broody and men to satisfy that broodiness . |
| 9 | If officialdom plays the game , the great benefit should be an end to those long delays in customs which appear often to be caused by nothing more than the whimsy of officials . |
| 10 | The rule that cases should be prepared for trial by someone other than the advocate presenting them in court should not apply to solicitors , the committee said . |
| 11 | This may well be done by someone other than the interviewer . |
| 12 | It is a good internal control if the dealer is not allowed to make cash transfers and if bank confirmations are matched to internal dealing records by someone other than the dealer . |
| 13 | When a central government department is sued , it is usual to name the respondent as the Secretary of State who is constitutionally responsible for the conduct of the department 's business ; although , of course , the decision or action being challenged will more often than not have been made or done by someone other than the Secretary of State personally ; and in the case of a geographically decentralized department , such as the Department of Social Security , the challenged decision or action may have originated from any one of a large number of regional offices of the department . |
| 14 | The Rowan Clinic at the Royal London Hospital has a team of counsellors , so basic assessment may be undertaken by someone other than the client 's personal counsellor . |
| 15 | For example , It is proposed that … suggests that the writer of the abstract is doing the proposing , but It has been proposed that … suggests that the proposing is done by someone other than the writer . |
| 16 | It must be like an Ord 14 affidavit in the sense that it has to be sworn by the plaintiff or someone authorised to do so ( eg his solicitor or legal executive ) and if it is sworn by someone other than the plaintiff , the affidavit has to state specifically that the deponent is duly authorised by the plaintiff to make the affidavit on his behalf . |
| 17 | The benefit is that all the tax reclaimed is dealt with by somebody other than the charity . |
| 18 | So sensitive was the occasion , approval had to be given by none other than the Cabinet Secretary and the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury before Mr Hibbert could be exposed to the harsh winds of public controversy . |
| 19 | And the pirates were so busy discussing the problem , and what they would do with the reward if they won it , that they did n't notice that they were being observed from the window above by none other than the new Mayor and his entourage . |
| 20 | spiteful , verbose and stupid though rock hacks can be , they are at least sometimes driven by something other than the logic of the balance sheet . |
| 21 | Material written in the hope or the expectation that it will be published is going to be different from material that is never expected to be read by anyone other than the author and perhaps a close friend . |
| 22 | The room was lit by a number of small reading lamps , none powered by anything stronger than a sixty-watt bulb . |