Example sentences of "other than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was partly Szarkowski 's influence in the early 60s , which broadened collectors ' minds to the idea of buying photographs which were other than self-consciously fine art . |
| 2 | By extending the playing time on the same uncovered , bland pitches , you merely prolong the attrition , with no technical benefit other than individually longer innings plus longer spells from spinners on discouraging surfaces . |
| 3 | The abolition of the distinction would not occur because historical social psychologists would be uninterested in theoretical issues , but because theory could not be other than historically applicable . |
| 4 | However , this initial , albeit restricted , study has demonstrated the usefulness of vitrinite reflectance data in other than strictly maturation-related applications . |
| 5 | DESPITE HIS assertion that he is not anti-Japanese ( Business column , June ) , it is difficult to see Jeffrey Ferry 's article as anything other than yet another petulant cry at the temerity of these Japanese — for being good at business when they do n't look like us , behave like us or even speak the language properly . |
| 6 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 7 | Although it 's important we are profitable , we 're working towards different values other than purely monetary . |
| 8 | Have been growing less and less interested in titles that are other than purely descriptive . |
| 9 | Of course , there may be other costs of changing prices ( other than purely administrative ones ) . |
| 10 | The success of this initiative came to be measured in terms other than purely personal achievement on the part of numbers of blacks learning to read and write . |
| 11 | As a leading man in films he was expected to be nothing other than purely masculine . |
| 12 | Research theses and postgraduate courses can fulfil ends other than purely educational ones ; but they can not become , as part of higher education , simply instrumental , whether in the direction of academic careers or professional careers . |
| 13 | No , I think probably over the years every avenue , other than perhaps this one , has been exploited to the full . |
| 14 | At Bletchley I had begun to satisfy , however pathetically and inadequately , a desire to see the world about me , but then had neither the time nor the money nor the opportunity for anything other than very restricted local journeys . |
| 15 | It is said to be found at depths of around 30 metres and is , therefore , unlikely to be shipped in other than very restricted numbers . |
| 16 | Few guidelines , other than very broad statements such as ‘ the use of culturally valued means to enable people to lead culturally valued lives ’ ( Wolfensberger , 1980 ) exist to translate the new expectations into styles of working practice . |
| 17 | Often recommended for cleaning purposes , to avoid the spread of contamination inherent in the use of cloths , it does not have the mechanical properties necessary for anything other than very light soil removal . |
| 18 | I could not explain how I felt other than very special . |
| 19 | Having started with nothing other than very modest share capital more than 20 years ago , it is now a major player on the UK and international scene . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , left idealist writers have been very reluctant to identify anything as being other than potentially indicative of leftist revolutionary consciousness . |
| 21 | In case this surprises you , and I 'm sure it does n't surprise those of you who are biologists , we have in Britain two terminal links with such a chain , which we would never regard as anything other than perfectly good species . |
| 22 | There is no suggestion that these honours were ‘ bought ’ , nor that the recipients were anything other than entirely worthy and deserving . |
| 23 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 24 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 25 | Based as it is on " literary standards " culled from the nineteenth-century realist tradition , it does not envisage the possibility of " reflecting " the complexity of the historical process in anything other than relatively conventional and traditional formal terms . |
| 26 | Those three operations then are the measure of modern medical practice : cancers which might have developed from an enlarged prostate , some rogue polyps and a spinal tumour , any one of which could have proved fatal , were all pre-empted by discovery and cure ; and I can not be other than deeply grateful for this additional lease of life . |