Example sentences of "other [noun] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An IBM Italia spokesman in Milan said , ‘ Database Informatica needs additional capital and we are discussing with the other shareholders whether to do it , who will do it , and when . |
| 2 | For many journals the referee receives a typescript in the post , sends comments off , and receives no other feedback than to see the article appearing in print later . |
| 3 | If the situation continues I will have no other recourse than to set the facts before Rose Lipman . |
| 4 | In which case , what better , what other remedy than to push yourself as hard as you could towards all extremes to feel alive , but keep the centre inviolate ? |
| 5 | He disliked the use of extemporary prayers , saying , ‘ There needed no other confutation than to take them down in shorthand and shew them afterwards to those men that had been so audacious as to utter them . ’ |
| 6 | In all this work he functions as a kindly nurse who has no other business than to care for the well-being of her charge . |
| 7 | Some saw the press as an industry and had no other object than to sell a product , provide employment and make a fair profit . |
| 8 | Production was now centralized at Pinewood Studios , with Davis 's former personal assistant Earl St John , a one-time exhibitor , put in charge of making ‘ inexpensive films without artistic pretensions , films that had no other object than to provide good family entertainment and show a profit . ’ |
| 9 | Disknet gives the user no other choice than to stick to a routine of checking each incoming diskette for viruses . |
| 10 | Disknet gives the user no other choice than to stick to a routine of checking each incoming diskette for viruses . |
| 11 | He wrote immediately to the SMG , cutting off all contact : ‘ I am not interested in agencies who politic and posture for no other reason than to promote themselves … secondly , as I am not presently able to place any trust in you , I must insist that any further matters you wish to raise are channelled through to a suitable agency , viz the local council or HCRC . ’ |
| 12 | Now , if for no other reason than to give me pleasure , will you please smile ? ’ |
| 13 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've paid a heavy price for our mistakes this season and I ca n't explain it any other way than to say it 's bad luck . |
| 15 | In this way , people such as the Trobrianders of the Pacific , made famous by Malinowshi , spend a great deal of their energy producing goods of no practical value , mainly elaborate pieces of jewellery , for no other purpose than to exchange them with neighbours , and thereby maintain peaceful social relations . |
| 16 | She distrusted the offer of talks which had no other purpose than to string out negotiation . |
| 17 | Its frail old shell served little other purpose than to squat on the ground and prevent any adjacent developments from creeping across it . |
| 18 | While , on the face of it , his case might rest on its being detrimental to his career to suggest that he is at death 's door , it seems likely that much of the evidence , especially for the defence , will be called to no other purpose than to establish whether , to put it mor euphemistically than it will be put in court , he has been putting himself about . |
| 19 | He sat down on a small bedside chair , leaving Culley and Dawson no other option than to sit on the bed , which they did , side by side , like travellers on a train . |
| 20 | One of the Inverkeithing officers , the tide waiter , was ‘ threatened to be removed or broke ’ if he joined Provost Cunningham in the burgh elections , a sad state of affairs , when , as Cunningham complained , ‘ your Lordship knows what I do is from no other view than to serve the D[uke] of A[rgyl]e & your lordship 's interest , and have his grace 's order for doing so ’ . |
| 21 | A communiqué issued by the UNHCR on May 1 deplored the " false hopes " raised among some refugees , and stressed " that those not recognized as refugees must understand that there is no other solution than to return to Vietnam with guarantees for their safety and dignity assured by the UNHCR " . |