Example sentences of "other [conj] the " in BNC.

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1 Things were similar in other or the big cities of Sicily .
2 For when it comes it is more violent , more annihilating , more interminable than I can remember it , this feeling in the pit of the stomach , this physical pain and physical desire to retch , to want to get rid of something , of everything , to want to make all that is inside emerge and disappear , drain away , mingle with the rest of the detritus of the world , but it is not only physical , a physical sensation , he wrote , it is physical but it is also something else , not moral , not psychological , not spiritual , but something else , something other than the purely physical .
3 Substitute anxiety in the spectator , he wrote , brought about by nothing other than the apparent lack of anxiety in the image .
4 This has the advantage that it does not require the pilot to remember any special movement of the controls other than the movement forward to unstall .
5 No doubt there will be some who dismiss such utterances as hypocritical , asking how such views can be reconciled with the way Mr Chatrier , as President of the French Tennis Federation , worked so hard to provide Paris , in what was already a crowded autumn calendar , with what at the time was the richest official indoor tournament , other than The Masters , in terms of prize money .
6 The problem , of course , would be reaching agreement with all parties concerned , as to which events , other than the four Grand Slams , would be included .
7 Your council can also choose to extend these periods of time or set new classes of property other than the one laid down by the Government .
8 Inside was none other than the Queen .
9 This feature can be used to update information stored in a receiver about programme services other than the one to which the set is tuned .
10 Poems can be self-sufficient , leaning on no reality outside themselves other than the history and usage of the words out of which they are made .
11 What Phyllis Bottome wants to do — what , in 1944 , she needs to do — is to shift the blame for Pound 's Fascism on to something other than the heedless impetuosity of Pound himself .
12 We may even feel , as certainly I do , that some of the later cantos are of such a nature that it 's hard to conceive in any age of a way of encountering them other than the way we 're here embarked upon .
13 Although Labour accepted that a second chamber to replace the Lords could be elected by a method other than the present first-past-the-post system , that chamber did not make or break governments .
14 No explanation was given to those who were turned back , other than the Foreign Ministry 's declaration that this was a ‘ sovereign decision ’ .
15 Ms Foster put forward the idea of a similar investigation for plant and animal biotechnology because she was troubled by the unnecessary secrecy and seeming insensitivity of government departments to issues other than the narrow technical one of safety .
16 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 .
17 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 . ’
18 Pitting a slim-line orchestra against a jumbo choir might be hazardous with any body other than the CBSO Chorus .
19 ‘ I do not see how you can expand access by any means other than the Government paying .
20 It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) .
21 All the same , I would expect and ( I anticipate ) receive agreement from the Chancellor to two propositions : first , I would wish the ‘ real ’ budget to be maintained , though I would not argue for any test of ‘ reality ’ other than the rough and ready conventional scale used for measuring inflation ; and secondly , I would seek to agree a modest and gradual increase in that ‘ real ’ budget .
22 The real trick is then to sustain a high enough level of air play , press and TV to allow the record to ‘ cross-over ’ and appeal to people other than the band 's fans .
23 spiteful , verbose and stupid though rock hacks can be , they are at least sometimes driven by something other than the logic of the balance sheet .
24 This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ .
25 Major civil conflicts lasting several years — other than the wars of liberation and their aftermath in the former Portuguese territories — have taken place in Nigeria .
26 As for rigs other than the hair for boilie fishing there are of course plenty of alternatives .
27 As Marx rightly comments in his notebook , Maine seems unable to imagine property in terms other than the legal terms which his training had given him .
28 Not until recently did the West Sussex County Council wish to encourage the development of tourist-related activities in parts of the county other than the Channel coast , but a change in policy , provoked by the recognition of the potential of the rural hinterland for attracting tourists , allowed the new owner of the wharf warehouse to contemplate its conversion into a guest house and family dwelling because the project became eligible for grant aid from the English Tourist Board .
29 It was none other than the heir to the throne , blissfully unaware , and convulsed with mirth .
30 Its co-sponsor is none other than the Police Federation , the junior officers ' staff association , traditionally the organisation most wary of reform .
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