Example sentences of "none [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeremi 's amazement at being tested in the presence of none other than a Space Marine was spiked with bile at the recollection of how that brat and his fellow high-life hooligans , who stood so contemptuously above any law , had hustled injured cousin Yakobi away to a vile death , crowing and bragging . |
| 2 | It turns out that the independent property consultancy was none other than a subsidiary of the national ports authority , which is a major shareholder in the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 3 | Work that wire all the way , look upon it as none other than a super-length needle with the eye in the bend of the wire . |
| 4 | For the boat , now called Spirit of Scotland , is none other than the vessel built in this region in the 1980s and launched under the name Spirit of Merseyside . |
| 5 | It is , I am told , German settlers in County Wexford who are responsible for the Irish Brie called St Edi now being peddled in this country ; the assault of its ammoniac smell brought back to me with terrible force a twenty-two-year-old memory of the Camembert of war-time Egypt which , I now realize , could have been none other than the handiwork of a German fifth column active in Alexandria . ) |
| 6 | One of those who wants the young Pakistani punished is none other than the man he so narrowly beat 10-15 , 6-15 , 15-4 , 15-11 , 15-10 in the final , Chris Dittmar . |
| 7 | He is , in fact , none other than the knight-errant of the fairy tales ( as witness Chandler calling his hero originally Malory , after the author of the Morte d'Arthur , and Robert Parker calling his Spenser , after the poet of The Fairy Queen ) . |
| 8 | Inside was none other than the Queen . |
| 9 | It was none other than the heir to the throne , blissfully unaware , and convulsed with mirth . |
| 10 | So sensitive was the occasion , approval had to be given by none other than the Cabinet Secretary and the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury before Mr Hibbert could be exposed to the harsh winds of public controversy . |
| 11 | The extraction of an additional amount of products from this sphere pre-supposes its growth , which — temporarily , in the present phases of development — is none other than the growth of bourgeois relations . |
| 12 | Is he aware that the right hon. Gentleman who so described it was none other than the Leader of the Opposition ? |
| 13 | The Battle of Naseby which took place in June 1645 , with Fairfax and Cromwell in charge of the Parliamentary forces and Prince Rupert , Astley and Langdale in charge of the Royalist troops , resulted in a great victory for Parliament , achieved — according to Cromwell — ‘ none other than the hand of God ’ . |
| 14 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 15 | Probably , for the United Company of Undertakers was never admitted at the Guildhall , and their ‘ house ’ was none other than the business premises of Robert Legg Snr , upholder , appraiser and undertaker . |
| 16 | This is none other than the house of God , and this is the gate of heaven . ’ |
| 17 | This is none other than the house of God , and this is the gate of heaven . ’ |
| 18 | As it was everybody was thankfully unhurt , though a scary moment occurred when the AA member turned up and turned out to be none other than an ex-member of THE TREMELOES . |