Example sentences of "something [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that both mother and teacher said that he was always like this , it happened on average three times a day only after he was asked to do something other than play by himself . |
| 2 | ( 4 ) The three male singers who performed these six roles all normally sang something other than soprano parts . |
| 3 | Between half and two-thirds of smokers die of something other than smoking . |
| 4 | Thus we can see that there is a broad variety of approaches which we may group under the heading of ‘ natural law theories ’ because they all rely on something other than state law to constitute the valid rules of a legal system . |
| 5 | That 's why he 's not doing so well at the moment : people like you to put up some pretence that you 're interested in something other than money , even if you are in the insurance business . |
| 6 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 7 | If only she drank something other than herb tea . |
| 8 | I 'd like her to have something other than fustian . " |
| 9 | Aestheticism , l'art pour l'art , is identified , and impaled , in Hérédia ( though with a beguiling hesitancy — ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ one tends to conclude ’ ) ; to aim for the poetic ends up in something other than poetry , or else in inferior poetry . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , something other than sex gets you aroused to a passion , ’ she said with unaccustomed acidity . |
| 11 | If this reduces the flake to a silver grey powder , then what you have is something other than gold ; if not , then well done ! |
| 12 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 13 | Texts cohere , so cohesion within a text ( texture ) , depends upon something other than structure ; it is a property of the text as such , and not of any structural unit such as a clause or sentence . |
| 14 | But no amphibian can truthfully be described as nimble and for hunting they have to rely on something other than agility their tongue . |
| 15 | A few people thought I was making a living in something other than fashion , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 16 | Such thorough excavators probably need something other than undergravel filtration |
| 17 | Suddenly , Ted was aware that he was ploughing up something other than earth . |
| 18 | With breast-fed babies who are thought to have food sensitivity , the first step is to check that it is not something other than breast milk causing the problem . |
| 19 | She wanted to talk about something other than death and danger . |
| 20 | For one thing he certainly over-states it when he says that pleasure always comes from satisfaction of an antecedent desire for something other than pleasure . |
| 21 | ‘ Carmen regards him as a kind of guru and I 'm the first to admit he 's been an invaluable catalyst in her career , but I wish he could talk about something other than medicine . ’ |
| 22 | The American policy also assumed that if TOWs were bartered for lives , as North put it , the transaction could be passed off as something other than ransom , neatly tied up without the stakes being raised . |