Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] others " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 2 | With the right kind of self-certainty goes sympathy with others and a sane balance of mind . |
| 3 | Over half the subjects interviewed ( 57% ) believed that people with positive purified protein derivative ( PPD ) tuberculin test can transmit TB to others . |
| 4 | After all , physicians can wander where they wish and prise secrets from others . |
| 5 | Integrity , in contrast , insists that each citizen must accept demands on him , and may make demands on others , that share and extend the moral dimension of any explicit political decisions . |
| 6 | It has plans for others , such as AppleTalk , in the near future . |
| 7 | Most user education programmes have so far been very much of a local nature with little attempt to communicate experience to others . |
| 8 | ‘ The bottom line is that companies that choose to develop domestic markets may find themselves totally blocked out by competitors that are well entrenched and ready to launch offensives on others ’ home markets ' ( Ohmae 1985 ) . |
| 9 | I tried thinking of others , more as a device than a good , and clenched my thigh muscles for a start , to give half an inch more room to the neighbors . |
| 10 | For most of us , though , gaining recognition from others is to some extent dependent on our confidence in letting others know who we are and what we 're about . |
| 11 | The software publisher will prefer to grant a licence because he will want to retain the copyright in the software and be free to grant licences to others . |
| 12 | Every human being has duties to others which he must accept . |
| 13 | Baboons have a gesture for soliciting help from others : packer showed that those individuals which most frequently responded to solicitations from others are also those most likely to receive help when they solicit . |
| 14 | Given their basic categorial " frame of reference " , the central issue for most of them becomes one of defining the criteria of significant ascriptions of experiences — which in practice invariably reduces to the problem of defining the general truth-conditions of ascribing experiences to others . |
| 15 | During conflict , baboons may seek assistance from others by soliciting their participation in an attack upon an opponent . |
| 16 | Are you reluctant to accept help from others , because you hate feeling dependent or grateful ? |
| 17 | Evenings at the pub or the bar will have to be abandoned and he will stay at home , opening bottles for others to drink . |
| 18 | In addition to academic qualifications they will expect you to demonstrate that you have the intelligence to understand the demands of their businesses , the fluency to communicate ideas to others and the flexibility to develop other people 's ideas . |
| 19 | However , if as a pure value judgement the government considers that this distribution of income-earning potential is inequitable , the government will need to raise taxes from some people in order to provide subsidies for others . |
| 20 | Whatever the spiritual significance of her experiences , Kempe has certainly attracted attention from others as a mediaeval example of psychiatric disorder ; for example in Dale Petersens , A Mad People 's History of Madness and in porter 's more recent A Social History of Madness . |
| 21 | We ca n't expect gratitude , any more than we want charity from others . |
| 22 | Worse than jealousy or possessiveness , however , is the attempt to establish superiority over others . |
| 23 | ‘ TVB hereby grants to [ the taxpayer ] , which accepts , the sole and exclusive right outside Hong Kong and the non-exclusive right in Hong Kong throughout the life of this agreement and upon the terms and conditions of parts 2 and 3 hereof : ( a ) to copy , adapt , and cause to be seen and heard in public ( otherwise than by means of wireless or cable TV transmissions in Hong Kong ) all TVB films , ( b ) to exploit all derivative rights in TVB films ( excluding the hotchpot programmes ) and ( c ) to grant sub-licences to others to do the acts set out in paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) above for periods not exceeding five years unless TVB 's prior written consent . … |
| 24 | Isolation is one of the biggest problems for the unemployed actor , for acting is something which needs communication with others . |
| 25 | Letter to the Editor : George has duty to others |
| 26 | I became lively , hard-working , and so well-organised that I found inefficiency in others deplorable . |
| 27 | If a man was lucky enough to get a job it was expected that he would use his position to find jobs for others in his family or village . |
| 28 | If peaks and troughs were traded more efficiently — ie , if stations could buy power from others when local demand is high , and sell to others when it is low — their theoretical 12% capacity margin might cope with further demand growth for years to come . |
| 29 | Whatever the quality of recruitment of barristers and solicitors , is my right hon. and learned Friend aware of the deep weakness in the British legal system in that justice is readily available to the poor who can get legal aid and to the rich who can easily afford it anyway but that to a large proportion of people in between it often seems barely accessible and yet they have to pay taxes to provide justice for others ? |
| 30 | A person who listens shows that he or she has time for others . |