Example sentences of "other [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of smoke other than dark smoke emitted from a chimney , which is giving rise to a nuisance , s.16 of the 1956 Act extends the provisions of Part III of the Public Health Act 1936 , to include smoke nuisances . |
| 2 | King Fahd was said to have intervened personally to warn Islamic radicals against any " excessive behaviour " , saying that " any recourse to any means other than peaceful dialogue is excluded " . |
| 3 | All property other than real property and chattels real is classed as chattels personal . |
| 4 | Certainly if you have to create anything other than mild pain in order to stop your thoughts you must not continue but rather find an alternative technique of distraction . |
| 5 | Although some catholic bishops are known to have been exiled during the reign of Alaric II , where there is any detailed evidence of the circumstances , factors other than religious conflict appear to have been important . |
| 6 | In return , local authorities were empowered to appoint the teachers in such schools for all subjects other than religious instruction . |
| 7 | It was his general attitude of irresponsibility , selfishness , and dislike for any of the functions of kingship other than easy popularity and personal privilege . |
| 8 | Even so , there was not much that could be said , other than polite conversation . |
| 9 | One of the easier Potamogetons to be grown in the aquarium , as its demands , other than good illumination , are not too great . |
| 10 | Sex with somebody other than present lover . |
| 11 | But the r and K lines were cultured at different densities , so that selection on life-history traits other than late fecundity may also have differed between them and may have accounted for the decline in late fertility of the r -line females . |
| 12 | Why should uncompetitive and low-productivity industry have yielded other than low profit rates ? |
| 13 | Erm beyond two thousand and six , I would have thought the strategic guidance would be in locations other than peripheral expansion around the Greater York area , which I would have suggested would would more than likely be to new settlements . |
| 14 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 15 | IBM Corp has agreed to pay the US government $14.8m to settle that potential False Claims Act civil suit after IBM admitted to providing reconditioned or remanufactured computer equipment to the US government between 1980 and 1990 , contrary to contract provisions — under the contract , IBM was required to notify the government prior to delivery of anything other than new equipment , and the investigation revealed that IBM delivered approximately 15,000 reconditioned or remanufactured machines to the government ; IBM voluntarily owned up that it might not have fulfilled its obligations under the contract after conducting an internal audit . |
| 16 | ‘ Exploiting customers by levying higher charges than we could justify on grounds of cost or , worse , cheating them by using clandestine methods to raise interest rates on borrowing for reasons other than perceived risk would be the surest way to lose customers in what is , these days , a very competitive industry . |
| 17 | Taking into account need for doctors ' services does not get round the problem that ‘ many of those with restricted activity may not visit a G.P. whereas others may visit a G.P. for reasons other than restricted activity . ’ |
| 18 | There is no sign of serious thinking other than tightening immigration controls and re-introducing the Asylum Bill ; no discussion of the rise of Islamophobia and right-wing extremism in Europe ; no strategy for fighting this growth . |
| 19 | Why , it might still be asked , did Franco go to so much trouble to give the impression that his regime had a basis other than sheer force , when that selfsame exercise made it clear that he did not need to ? |
| 20 | ‘ I was not attached by anything other than sheer terror . ’ |
| 21 | Parker ( 1979 ) argued similarly in calling for measures other than short-term profit calculations in order to reflect a balance between short-term and long-term responsibilities . |
| 22 | Through the sex act , men secured women 's continuing subordination , by cutting off every avenue of escape from the gratification of their desire , and by denying female sexuality any outlet other than compulsory heterosexuality . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , there is no evidence to suggest that this is anything other than wishful thinking . |
| 24 | These measures have not , of course , stopped information other than official information from being made public . |
| 25 | ‘ If the objective of privatisation is to improve management performance , it can be achieved in ways other than all-out privatisation , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Meetings with liaison groups began to falter early in 1985 when the teachers ' dispute began to affect school activities other than actual classroom teaching . |
| 27 | Swan and Pearce ( 1988 ) have attempted to establish the generality of the principle that the strength of the OR will be inversely related to the predictive accuracy of the stimulus by using a procedure other than partial reinforcement . |
| 28 | Other than irritating wooo-wooo , the predominant noise was a ceaseless 140-beats-per-minute boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi which seems to drive the skaters on to a higher and wilder plateaux of whirling and circling . |
| 29 | More persuasive perhaps is the quotation from the EEC 's Green Paper Employment Participation and Company Structure , to the effect that ‘ the pursuit of goals other than economic growth , such as the improvement of the quality of life and working conditions , the protection of the environment and the interests of the consumer … can probably be secured only by the existence of decision-making processes in enterprises which have a broader , more democratic base than such processes often have at present . ’ |
| 30 | The results might have been worse : a number of cattle lost from one side to the other , some barns and carts burned , and half a dozen women held hostage and returned in other than mint condition . |