Example sentences of "[v-ing] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The linguistic theories also create striking alternative contexts for understanding , and explaining other understandings — how they might have been arrived at . |
| 2 | Teaching staff have a number of needs for information , and for assistance with recording assessment data and keeping other course records . |
| 3 | A zoo , park , or some other attractive open-air venue will provide you with lots of photographic opportunities while keeping other members of the party happily occupied . |
| 4 | And he claimed the county council was keeping other homes open which needed more money spent on them . |
| 5 | In the night he might be heard running up and down his attic bedroom banging the wall at each end , and keeping other people awake . |
| 6 | If you put young people to work digging ditches , the argument ran , you were keeping other people out of employment ; and what young people needed was not bogus work but real jobs . |
| 7 | You may not need a provisional licence if you hold a full licence which states that it may be used as a provisional licence for driving other categories . |
| 8 | What they told me was that people come to this country impersonating other people , get a passport and then pretend they 're British . |
| 9 | The absence of her own , however , has enabled her to spend a lifetime amusing and instructing other people 's . |
| 10 | While she was spectating other events , it was reported than Princess Anne looked relaxed and informal — wearing a blue yachting cap and blue and white jacket . |
| 11 | ‘ This is the first step in sorting out Darlington town centre , we want to go on and sort out the bus chaos , the market square and look at pedestrianising other areas . ’ |
| 12 | We want to go on and sort out the bus chaos , the market square and look at pedestrianising other areas ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ We want to sort out the bus chaos plaguing the town centre and look at the market square and pedestrianising other areas , ’ he added . |
| 14 | It is then that rogue waves appear , devouring other waves in their path to grow still larger . |
| 15 | And despite the Ramblers ' Association suggestion of management etc , we have not made too good a job of protecting other wilderness areas open to the public . |
| 16 | Turning to Europe , Mr Ridley said that the Government was pressing other EC countries to reduce their industrial subsidies , for this was at the heart of a genuine single market after 1992 . |
| 17 | The question of budgetary reform aroused considerable tensions between the member states during this period , with Spain and Portugal pressing other member countries to agree to direct more EC funds to its poorer members . |
| 18 | Yeah if you 're taking it you just want a laugh and you know you 're not affecting anyone else but if you 're dealing you 're pressing other people to buy it . |
| 19 | Nevertheless the philosophy of animal welfare by its very nature permits utilising other animals for human purposes , even if this means ( as it always does ) that most of these animals will experience pain , frustration and other harms , and even if it means , as it almost always does , that these animals will have their life terminated prematurely . |
| 20 | Solicitors calculated the core cost of a case , using hourly rates and itemising other costs . |
| 21 | Of course , to produce a complete analysis of all the phonemes of English , other features would be needed for representing other types of consonant and for vowels and diphthongs . |
| 22 | In the following chapters I will look at different methods of applying other sources of knowledge to constrain the search . |
| 23 | Prospective students tend to consider the multi-media scheme after eliminating other possibilities . |
| 24 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |
| 25 | Advances in understanding other receptors and in devising methods for isolating them gave a more fundamental approach to the morphine problem . |
| 26 | Two answers may be given : first , just as they illuminate many other areas of social life , the methods and findings of our rivals may help us understand the work of the professions ( to illustrate this , some of my examples will be drawn from medical novels ; no doubt legal novels will be equally instructive ) ; second , it is not clear how far we can go in understanding other occupations ' behaviour unless we grasp that of our own . |
| 27 | A person can become a Christian for all sorts of reasons , but it is vital for Christianity if it is true , that he think through his faith afterwards to the point where he understands why he believes — at least to the level at which his mind demands satisfaction in understanding other areas of life . |
| 28 | Other writers answered the question of the universality of sign language with less certainty : ‘ though all nations do not use the same mode of signs , one having a knowledge of the signs herein delineated will experience little , if any difficulty in understanding other modes , and of being understood by those who use a different mode ’ ( Michaels , quoted in Battison and Jordan , 1976 : 54 ) . |
| 29 | Ahmed : When you are Black and gay and you open yourself up to the realities and contradictions inherent in this combined identity , it provides a better basis for understanding other people 's experience , both intellectually and intuitively . |
| 30 | In the same way , understanding other people 's explanations has both cognitive and linguistic components . |