Example sentences of "[noun] to other " in BNC.

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1 On the contrary , he maintains that such a study might well lead to the extension of one 's regard for one 's own religion to other religions , and at the same time , provide a better understanding of one 's own faith .
2 The sudden apparition of the avenging , victorious ayatollah not only astounded the West , it also gave an immense , immediate surge of pride in their culture and in the political power of the religion to other Muslims .
3 But , once more , the qualifications were liberally added : ‘ as long as the individual is active and capable of carrying out the required duties ’ ; and ‘ where risks to other persons are involved ( eg driving ) , then adequate checks on ability should be made . ’
4 An insect with a primary infection on a leg can easily spread spores to other locations simply by brushing the infected appendage against other parts of the body , and non-sexual contact with an infected individual can also initiate infections in randomly-scattered locations .
5 Listen with an increased span of concentration to other children and adults , asking and responding to questions and commenting on what has been said .
6 Under the Act the Secretary of State can differentiate between authorities in drawing up the timetable for tendering and has powers to extend tendering to other services .
7 These considerations clearly apply with equal force to other sexual acts such as buggery and oral sex .
8 Unlike trading losses , no mechanism exists for carry back or surrender of capital losses to other group companies , and they can only be carried forward for use by the same company .
9 This will avoid the inclination of either management or labour to wrongly allocate the time spent on work attracting bonus to other non-bonus operations .
10 Overall , I would thoroughly recommend our itinerary to other pilots of light aircraft — particularly if they want to broaden their horizons with a change of scenery and culture as well as flying conditions different to those in most of the UK or France .
11 Also , the way in which the Encomium Emmae describes the assembly of the forces with which Swegen invaded England in 1013 certainly suggests that both men and ships were raised on the country , while the Norman William of Jumièges , writing probably in the late 1050s , has Swegen both commanding his countrymen to take part in the expedition and sending messengers to other kingdoms to attract men eager for loot .
12 British ministers returned from trips to other countries with tales ( usually apocryphal ) about how budgets were being trimmed .
13 Cheering was the thought of other trips to other wild places still awaiting to be rediscovered !
14 Like her failure to realise , or even to care , that her indifference to other people 's convenience and comfort could eventually leave her friendless in a cold world .
15 People usually make such declarations of opposition to other lineages , other tribes — not to entities which claim superiority .
16 Professional football matches offer contemporary youth , particularly working-class youth , an opportunity to identify with one another as a solid group in opposition to other such groups .
17 My usage therefore represents a ‘ translation ’ of a native Buid concept , and is defined in opposition to other Buid concepts .
18 The degeneration occurs , not because men are congenitally or even incorrigibly narrow , libertine , isolated or selfish , but because in defining themselves as autonomous beings in opposition to other human beings they have had to seek what separates them as a group from others .
19 The article defines literature in opposition to other language uses as " a body of symbolic objects expressed in human language , possessing textual qualities of a non-institutional , homiletical kind " ( p. 138 ) .
20 But Mrs Totteridge was clearly bending her mind to other things .
21 Yet he had remained alert the whole time , his senses tuned , even in their intimacy ; he had been able to bring his mind to other things .
22 ‘ I 'll give the carving to Ana after dinner , señor , ’ she said in a rush , trying to get her mind to other things and seeking strict convention like a suit of armour .
23 This period of Eliot 's development is often seen as one of increasing narrowing , so that it is useful to emphasize that while it certainly represents a concentration of energy on Christian themes , it also represents a continuing openness to other elements and a drawing on resources whose foundations were laid in Eliot 's studies at Harvard .
24 These include sincerity , honesty ( not to indulge in plagiarism or cheating ) , truthfulness , the avoidance of self-contradiction , a determination to be comprehensible , the intellectual courage to develop and hold a position of one 's own , a willingness to be subject to the demands of reason and evidence , an openness to other viewpoints or ways of going on , and according due ( but not undue ) respect to teaching and other staff .
25 He proposes four bonds : attachment ( the extent to which individuals have close emotional ties to other people ) ; commitment ( the extent to which they see conventional behaviour , for example at school , as offering immediate or long-term rewards ) ; involvement ( the extent to which their time is taken up with conventional activities ) ; belief ( the extent to which their beliefs about what is permissible or not coincide with conventional ones ) .
26 But he described the Soviet abandonment of bases on foreign territories as a demonstration to other countries of a ‘ real way of alleviating international tension ’ , which had been grounded on the assumption that ‘ the NATO countries , and the USA in particular , would follow its example ’ .
27 Depending upon the objective above , in the case of ( a ) ask for the order now , or in the case of ( b ) arrange for further communication in the form of a meeting , a telephone call , a letter , an additional demonstration to other members of the decision making unit , etc .
28 Fast application by airless spray , of relatively low film thicknesses , with minimum disruption to other trades , saves contract time .
29 A king therefore had to keep control of his own : he must inhibit opposition within the realm , and exile the faithless , but be sufficiently fair in his distribution of patronage to forestall the defection of valued supporters to other realms .
30 In Durham , Brian Roberts has been studying village plans and has now extended his research to other northern counties , as well as looking at England 's village plans generally .
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