Example sentences of "anything [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 2 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 3 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 4 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 5 | Anything other than a square-on approach can lead to problems . |
| 6 | How could this right of election be anything other than a fiction if the breach of the term in all circumstances deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should receive ? |
| 7 | If you need to bring an umbrella , a street guide or anything other than a briefcase or handbag leave it in the reception area during the interview . |
| 8 | I can not imagine that , as Sir Russell was granted that post , he is regarded as anything other than a man with eminently good sense . |
| 9 | Seen in his context , which was inter-war Cambridge , Leavis was never much of an innovator , and it is hard to see his critical notoriety , which reached its apogee in the 1950s and early 1960s , as anything other than a triumph of style . |
| 10 | The list of places with worthwhile examples is far too extensive for inclusion in anything other than a specialist guide to private collections , but a considerable amount of information can be obtained from local tourist authorities and both general and individual heritage guides . |
| 11 | He had never flown in anything other than a Tiger Moth so her requested that his name be put forward for a short Washington sortie . |
| 12 | It 's as good a theory as any to explain it , because lord knows I never intended this to be anything other than a business arrangement . ’ |
| 13 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 14 | The lack of communication to others has only in part been due to our own ineptness at salesmanship ; it more likely lies in a fairly deeply embedded resistance to drama being anything other than a community art — not just a performing art , a community art . |
| 15 | The normal ( electronic ) shutter speed of a camcorder is unc of a second ; this is too slow to record rapid movement as anything other than a blur . |
| 16 | Grandmasters were a little surprised by Yusupov 's decision to surrender his bishop for a knight on move 22 , but the resulting position never looked like ending in anything other than a draw . |
| 17 | If the Community is built on anything other than a recognition that people and nations often disagree and argue , then it will blow apart in time , or , worse , have to maintained by ever more centralised power . |
| 18 | Anything other than a guess . |
| 19 | He has never been anything other than a raggamuffin , and that 's why his fans identify with him totally . |
| 20 | Is there anybody who needs anything other than a piano to do their scale for an A minor key i.e. Tuesday 's homework . |
| 21 | The King , however , was disinclined to anything other than an exchange of courtesies , once again making it quite clear that any attempt to detach Prussia from the rest of Germany was a fruitless exercise . |
| 22 | Remember , I 've never thought of myself as anything other than an amateur . |
| 23 | I ca n't imagine him being taken for anything other than an Englishman abroad . |
| 24 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 25 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 26 | She told me , ‘ Blind people do n't need that register , ’ and that no one would ever employ me as anything other than an audio-typist . |
| 27 | It is difficult to see that as anything other than an attempt to intimidate the BBC . |
| 28 | Did the plaintiff give anything other than the performance of his contract ? |
| 29 | At Riverside Studios during the interval of a play in Russian , I was chatting about anything other than the play to the Guardian 's critic , Michael Billington , when Mark Dignam approached Billington and , most courteously and with a touch of a bow , said : ‘ Mr Billington , I look forward to reading you tomorrow and seeing what I think of the play . ’ |
| 30 | He was on stage for most of the first act , and it was only when the curtain fell for the interval that he could concentrate on anything other than the play . |