Example sentences of "than something [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have hinted that the dawn has many times come to me through the leaves of the willow , but it is less the tree itself nowadays that transmits things seen to my mind — than something of which the willow is a visible type . |
| 2 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 3 | Rather than something to be relegated to nothingness , like we find today . |
| 4 | Professionals segregate according to expert criteria , but ‘ what is it to be human ? ’ sounds like a philosophical question — in which case it is also a political one — rather than something for experts to decide . |
| 5 | In particular data being used by the dual processors must be stored on the the processors have to be attached to a IBM 9333 high performance disk system , shared data must be capable of storage on raw disk configurations rather than something like the the AIX Journaled File System and software must be specifically configured to work with the HACMP/6000 Distributed Lock Manager . |
| 6 | A and really the remit is nothing other than something like undertake erm er survey work , design , detailed drawings or the reconstruction or repairs to blah blah blah blah including pre-imposed contract work . |
| 7 | Very few schools get away with teaching the Lord 's prayer in anything other than something like the traditional way . |
| 8 | He asked if I had enough of those for a whole album , because he felt it would make quite an original debut , to do only music taken from other instruments , rather than something from the standard guitar repertoire . |