Example sentences of "other [conj] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparative anatomists tell us that there are remarkably few differences between our brains and those of monkeys and apes , other than that ours are bigger . |
| 2 | As far as they are concerned the future does not exist in any way , other than that they hope they wo n't live to have any part in it . |
| 3 | Analogous situations in our everyday lives are too obvious to require further comment , other than that they , too , have dramatic potential . |
| 4 | Leaving aside for the moment the special interest groups which might be more amenable to user education programmes , let us look at work with adults with no allegiance to the public library other than that they are committed users of the service . |
| 5 | But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness . |
| 6 | Other than that they spend their money too quick . |
| 7 | These weapons were apparently unremarkable other than that they were old and battered and the letters ‘ NB ’ were engraved in gold on the barrels . |
| 8 | Perhaps the artists in this exhibition and book are united by only one thing other than that they have made use of some aspect of photographic technology : most of them are more likely than not to be familiar with the ideas of the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard . |
| 9 | And has n't Wittgenstein shown us anyway that a concept can be perfectly healthy without being definable , arguing that there need be no element common to all instances of a property ( e.g. instances of knowledge ) other than that they are instances ( e.g. that they are knowledge ) ? |
| 10 | Other than that they loved it . |
| 11 | But other than that they were identical . |
| 12 | I hardly remember what Mrs Girdlestone looked like , other than that she was plump and elderly , and gave an impression of being prepared for battle ; but I was touched when I saw the tea that had been laid out ready for me , imagining the two ladies conferring about the slices of bought ham , the thin bread-and-butter , and the bought cake . |
| 13 | The police suspected that it was an inside job and promptly arrested the dismissed worker , for no reason other than that she might have borne a grudge against her erstwhile employer . |
| 14 | He knew nothing of the girl Louise Taylor , other than that she had arrived at Buckingham Palace three months earlier and had spent time coaching the prince and the duchess in Russian . |
| 15 | Not quite knowing what to expect other than that she wanted a new job , Jean turned up for work promptly on a cold , wet , Monday morning but found no one to let her in . |
| 16 | The telling of atrocity stories is therefore a highly structured occasion which reveals little about the teller other than that he or she is performing a ritual for a contextually specific purpose . |
| 17 | Who that will be he declined to say other than that he would be preferably an ex-minister , ‘ somebody who has had a reasonably high profile ’ . |
| 18 | Nothing is known of his background , other than that he was the son of John Eckford and Janet Black . |
| 19 | Other than that he showed up Giggs for the puke faced brat that he is ( all 10,000,000 and Papin worth of him — Ferguson will rue the day he turned down that offer ) . |
| 20 | But she instructed her fast-beating heart not to be so idiotic , that Ven meant nothing by that other than that he was intrigued that her journalistic methods were unlike those of any other journalist he had met . |
| 21 | If you get married in a registry office , which I did , you do n't say an , in England , you do n't say anything other than that you take this chap to be your husband , and you interpret that to be as you wish . |
| 22 | ‘ Not a thing , other than that you 'd expressed a wish to go there , and I wanted to see you . ’ |
| 23 | Other than that you 'd get rid of that one again , but you would n't have move would you ? |
| 24 | Other other than that you can not guarantee planning permission . |
| 25 | Other than that it 's fairly standard . |
| 26 | Other than that it 's good to see a company producing a cheap guitar which not only looks convincingly like a no-nonsense , top-of-the-range instrument , but wo n't let the side down if it actually has to earn its keep . |
| 27 | ‘ Other than that it is a matter for the board of governors at each school . ’ |
| 28 | Yet until recently there was no explanation for this bizarre behaviour , other than that it was probably due to a breakdown of some unknown navigation system . |
| 29 | Boswell does not tell us what he said , other than that it included ‘ a variety of degrading images ’ . |
| 30 | She knew nothing of the future other than that it was an inhospitable fog that no-one had any choice but to enter , but she was certain that there was a scene all laid-out and waiting for her where she brought in the name of the man — or woman — who 'd first talked to Chrissie and then run her down . |