Example sentences of "[adv prt] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connoisseurs of bike racing prefer breaks by more than one rider , especially when they 're in different teams , for then riders ‘ sit in ’ , not taking their working turn at the front , conserving energy and slowing the break , thus wearing down other riders in favour of a team-leader back down the road in the peloton . |
| 2 | We could also write down other things about what we have noticed which would be better expressed in words than in paint . |
| 3 | I says to him , with him breaking down other night his dinner went to dog . |
| 4 | Pro-reunification protestors dominated Leipzig 's Karl Marx Square on Monday , shouting down other groups who spoke out for an independent and socialist East Germany . |
| 5 | Requests for assistance or consultation lead to a fairly high level of interruption and noise in the office , which may slow down other work and even make holding a telephone conversation difficult . |
| 6 | In the 1980s a change in political attitudes affected a long-standing commitment to public-sector plan making , and different policy initiatives have sought to reduce local authority provision of housing and play down other forms of local planning . |
| 7 | The local council says the women turned down other accomodation but admits there is severe housing pressure in the Wantage area . |
| 8 | Self-contradiction is natural in the human make-up ; inconsistencies are not worrying in themselves , so long as they are n't planted by memoir-writers or biographers putting down other biographers . |
| 9 | Language that belittles , that if you like pushes down other people . |
| 10 | An open policy to trade may be maintained if the nation is doing well economically , but a less successful economic position may lead to swift and much more extreme action to erect trade barriers and bring in other sanctions . |
| 11 | The crux of the rows centred around a belief that Sydney Newman , promoted from ITV into a very senior position and given virtual carte blanche to reshape the BBC 's drama output , was carrying out his task by bringing in other friends and associates from ITV in place of BBC staff who felt they could equally rise to the challenges . |
| 12 | However there must be a core of supervisory functions resident in main store at all times , which can bring in other functions as required . |
| 13 | I agree that nobody should be forced to breathe in other people 's cigarette smoke . |
| 14 | Similarly , Message Queue Interface should improve the efficiency with which loosely coupled systems work : travel agents , for example should be able to request flight information from one system and get straight on filling in other details without having to wait for the remote system to respond . |
| 15 | the ‘ library of the future ’ or the ‘ virtual library ’ , taken broadly as the entire set of information resources and facilities , bringing in other stakeholders , such as computing centres , media centres , film and data archives , museums , electronic information providers , and telecommunication networks ; |
| 16 | We would therefore be able to bring in other measures which we have n't modelled so far er but that is also the guidance that you should bring in , not only nowadays you should not only look to build a bypass , you should look to complementary measures within the urban area . |
| 17 | It 's like an oil painting ; when you make a mistake you can paint over it , but you might paint over other areas too . |
| 18 | Even when psychology recognizes gender differences between psychologists , it tends to pass over other differences . |
| 19 | The company had grown , diversified , prospered , taken over other companies . |
| 20 | When a medical career has to be ended early because of staffing reductions ( virtually unheard of in the NHS before the reforms but now planned in the wake of the Tomlinson inquiry ) age usually predominates over other factors such as experience and skill . |
| 21 | But then they started to fight over other things , and sometimes for no reason at all . |
| 22 | And quite sane friends of mine , whose opinions I respect over other things , believe in this terrible religion . |
| 23 | Sometimes the stranger appears in the uniform of the police handing over other partisans to the forces of occupation . |
| 24 | But it is unlikely that C. Itoh will take over other creditors ' debts , the traditional role in Japan of a main bank . |
| 25 | Richards holds that in poetry the function of " feeling " tends to dominate that of " sense " , while Jakobson identifies a special " poetic " function , which can be found in many uses of language , but which dominates over other functions in poetry . |
| 26 | In that period of decentralized feudalism , one clan ( the Tokugawa ) usurped the authority of the Emperor and ruled over other clans within a structure which prohibited almost all contact with the outside world . |
| 27 | He opened a shop there in 1961 and gradually took over other premises , including the castle , until today he has an annual turnover of more than a million second-hand books . |
| 28 | The control that partners exercise over other household resources , like food or fuel , can also limit the scope for savings in collective and personal consumption . |
| 29 | Athelstan was an ‘ emperor ’ ( if he was ) because he ruled over several kingdoms ; the kings of León-Castile in the eleventh and twelfth centuries were sometimes called emperors for a slightly different reason , that they had aspirations to rule over other peoples . |
| 30 | To pass over other objections , the Letter is far too long for such a purpose . |