Example sentences of "anything [adj] than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To base a property tax on anything other than capital values would be perverse — even if alternatives like imputed rents and floor-space footage were inherently sensible , which they are not — and ways to compile and update the necessary data have already been examined in detail . |
| 2 | Have you ever wanted to do anything other than play music ? |
| 3 | The shares , which were up 1 to 27p in London yesterday , are still speculative at this stage and it is likely to be 1993 before they are supported by anything other than hope value . |
| 4 | At first sight there is little to suggest that Michell has found anything other than chance connections . |
| 5 | In practice , legislation generally forbids such data being held thus and distributed in anything other than area aggregate form ; the cross-tabulations commonly employed ( e.g. to give tables of population numbers broken down by age and sex ) often result in a great multiplication of the data volumes . |
| 6 | Protestant opposition to integrated schooling is sometimes heard in the North , particularly from the fundamentalist camp , who not only fear catholic infiltration of state schools but are opposed to anything other than Bible protestantism in religious education . |
| 7 | they want to talk about anything other than crime prevention |
| 8 | Diversion — changing the subject to focus upon anything other than alcohol consumption or drug use and its consequences : " My real problem is … " vii Hostility — open attack at any mention of Chemical Dependency and its consequences , let alone mention of the words " alcoholism " , " drug addiction " , " alcoholic " or " addict " . |
| 9 | Not the way it is today , when on the rare occasion an employee accompanies a guest here , he is likely to be some newcomer who has little to say about anything other than Association Football , and who prefers to pass the evening not by the fire of the servants ' hall , but drinking at the Ploughman 's Arms — or indeed , as seems increasingly likely nowadays , at the Star Inn . |
| 10 | Can I , for the benefit of members opposite who , who always seem to believe that people on this side of the chamber are townies and do n't know anything about anything other than street lighting for the benefit of members opposite and for the public gallery outside , can I say that in my younger days , a million years ago , I rode with hunt . |
| 11 | Because , she thought , she had never been there with anyone who was interested in taking it at anything other than face value . |