Example sentences of "other than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judges said there was no indication that the exemption was ‘ other than a genuine response ’ to the terrorist situation . |
| 2 | But nothing and no one could ever really convince him that a world where fathers just disappeared one day and never returned could be anything other than a pitiful sham , a transparent hoax . |
| 3 | ‘ This clot , ’ boomed the Headmistress , pointing the riding-crop at him like a rapier , ‘ this black-head , this foul carbuncle , this poisonous pustule that you see before you is none other than a disgusting criminal , a denizen of the underworld , a member of the Mafia ! ’ |
| 4 | By the time that I began to work with Ahmed and Amitha , I had resolved within myself that I could n't be anything other than a Black lesbian and that was in itself its own political identity , one that did not require validation from either the women 's , gay or Black movements . |
| 5 | There is no suggestion here that anyone in the Arab world other than a fanatical fringe seriously expects that his leadership could resolve the region 's difficulties . |
| 6 | It would appear that the only Shetlanders who have reason to go into the estates at all , other than a small number of professional Shetlanders who have incomer friends who live there , are young Shetlander girls who are willing to babysit when most of the women in a social circle are attending the same function , or Shetlanders supplying some domestic service to individual households on the estates . |
| 7 | Supporters insist nothing would be lost other than a small car park and the steps leading up to the Prado 's ‘ Goya ’ entrance . |
| 8 | An important reason for this is that it is an entirely partial approach as explained in the section discussing qualifications to the theoretical results , and also because such a case by case approach is never capable of examining anything other than a small minority of all mergers . |
| 9 | On the one hand towards a more realist approach which is essential but can not go too far because if pursued at other than a meso-scale level is in danger of leading towards natural and biological sciences . |
| 10 | ‘ Anyone who is budgeting for anything other than a flat position is being optimistic . |
| 11 | If fact , if it had n't been for Finch 's increasing drinking problem , he himself would never have behaved on the set in anything other than a professional way . |
| 12 | Sapphire is murdered after consummating her relationship with a White student ; in A Taste of Honey , Jimmy is despatched once he has had sexual relations with Jo , never to be seen again ; in Flame in the Streets Gaby Gomez is badly burned ; in the same film Peter Lincoln manages to escape ‘ punishment ’ , other than a humiliating first encounter with his White fiancèe 's father , Jacko , but then the progression of the narrative is frozen before closure . |
| 13 | But even in the case of such an Act , if there are superadded provisions which attach to non-payment consequences other than a bare liability to be sued , there can be no justification for refusing to have regard to those consequences and to consider whether the existence of the provisions creating them has placed the payer under such pressure that the payments have not in truth been voluntary . |
| 14 | But this answer is still not satisfactory , for the question remains , why is it necessary for such a unitary space and time to be other than a phenomenological space and time ? |
| 15 | They are still open to appreciate and enjoy every aspect of sexuality and of the relationship between the sexes , other than a genital one . |
| 16 | If evil were only the absence of good , for instance , then the Ring could never be anything other than a psychic amplifier ; it would not ‘ betray ’ its possessors , and all they would need do is put it aside and think pure thoughts . |
| 17 | There were plenty of gates and there were numerous ways out of the square , and the park itself was barely a couple of hundred yards across ; just another backstreet pigeon trap with no feature other than a strange half-timbered lodge near its centre to make it unique , but still she hesitated to enter . |
| 18 | But as his eyes travelled across to Elinor 's crowd , with their frizzy haloes of hair , their flowered dresses and carefully arranged profiles , he realized that there was nothing he could think of to say that would persuade them he was anything other than a boring little man . |
| 19 | They were received by the group of villagers they joined with no comment other than a whispered bonsoir . |
| 20 | Property ( other than a legal estate in land ) may be transferred , and binding promises may be made to an infant , but in general he is unable to make a binding disposition of his property or to make binding promises to others . |
| 21 | Fergus awoke suddenly ; arms waving about , eyes wild and bright , making no sound other than a faint gurgling noise . |
| 22 | His reference to the respondents having no alternative but to continue to pay and to Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton suggests that he was referring to payments made to avoid unpleasant consequences other than a simple action of payment . |
| 23 | The treaty is a bilateral commitment with reciprocal rights and duties which contains no direct mention of the role of the United States in facilitating its conclusion , other than a general preambular reference to the Camp David framework for peace . |
| 24 | If P is some occam term and x is a variable , we say that an occurrence of x in P is free if it is not in the scope of any declaration ( other than a parallel declaration ) of x in P , and bound otherwise . |
| 25 | The man had never behaved towards her in other than a friendly and decorous way ; nevertheless , she burned . |
| 26 | Paul Klee found that if any path other than a straight line is offered between two nodes , the stress can be increased . |
| 27 | Third , it can be helpful to use straightforward simple words instead of using ‘ church speak ’ which means little to anyone other than a regular churchgoer . |
| 28 | ( i ) Trusts could be charged on persons other than a testamentary heir ; on anyone in fact who received a benefit under succession to the deceased . |
| 29 | In styling terms , there 's no mistaking the new 626 for anything other than a Japanese car . |
| 30 | Elizabeth Mowbray was baffled by the girl 's refusal to see the matter in its true light and more than a little troubled by what she was beginning to see as something other than a passing infatuation . |