Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] others " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently moved from Holland Park , the gallery specialises in seventeenth , eighteenth and early nineteenth-century prints and here you can find the extraordinary and the exquisite ; pictures that are touching and others that are bizarre . |
| 2 | It is through other black kids that some aspirations are fostered and others snuffed out by stories of racialism . |
| 3 | The essence of the Soviet constitution was incorporated , some features having been compressed and others expanded . |
| 4 | More have been wounded and others were victims of ethnic cleansing . |
| 5 | When X-rays strike a crystal some are absorbed whilst others are not absorbed and pass straight through the crystal . |
| 6 | A beating system is employed so that some rabbits , especially those that escape behind the beaters , are shot while others are flushed forward to be killed by carefully-positioned waiting guns . |
| 7 | Where a limited amount of money is available for allocation amongst competing demands , attention is bound to be focused on the procedures by which recipients are selected and others excluded . |
| 8 | Where the results of some parts of the total business are improving and others are declining , the total figure may be an inadequate reflection of what is actually happening . |
| 9 | Daly himself mentions coral islands which have been elevated and others which have subsided , for his theory does not exclude local subsidence . |
| 10 | While new departments are born and others extended , one of the oldest — the Home Office — would become a shadow of its present self . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that some sounds are distracting than others and that there are certain kinds of mental activity that are more at risk than others . |
| 12 | All radio stations were closed down by the mutineers ; several ministers , including the Prime Minister , were reported to have been arrested and others were seeking asylum in foreign embassies . |
| 13 | British Rail and London Transport have a massive expansion programme of new investment , which means that certain projects must be completed before others can reasonably be expected to begin . |
| 14 | Here there are rows of steam locomotives in a large shed , some waiting to be overhauled and others stored until their services are required . |
| 15 | It has been pointed out that there are biases in the system that make it much easier for some interests to be heard than others , and much easier for modifications to the status quo to be vetoed than to be supported . |
| 16 | Certain colour vocabularies are more likely to be adopted than others because of another rule : the retinal colour cones and certain interneurons within the brain encode light into four basic colours , even when the wavelength of light falling on the eye varies in a continuous manner . |
| 17 | Thus for a given exposure some pixels will be seen and others will not . |
| 18 | They do a dirty and often dangerous job , but this wild driving should be curtailed before others are killed . |
| 19 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have been careful not to lay down specific periods for the bids to come in , because , as I have said many times , it may take longer for some management-employee buy-outs to be lodged than others . |
| 20 | Some systems are considered to be closed and others are thought of as open . |
| 21 | The conclusion given in both the Johansson studies was simply that the probability of a driver actually detecting a road sign is extremely low , but that some signs are more likely to be detected than others . |
| 22 | It is like expert power in that it can only be exercised if others recognise and accept it . |
| 23 | Certain objectives might have to be abandoned if others of even greater value and importance were to be attained . |
| 24 | Some of the clauses may be abandoned and others amended , but much more is added than is taken away . |
| 25 | Indeed , this Germany , who lost in Brazil ( amidst riotous crowd behaviour ) , Spain , Argentina and Holland among those already sure to be involved and others such as Russia ( in its new form ) and Austria expected to be among them , it ranks alongside this year 's World Group quarter final line-up for depth and quality . |
| 26 | At times whole sections will be finished while others remain blank . |
| 27 | Conversely , the sense of failure may be retained while others are perceived to hold the key to all success . |
| 28 | Those that are due to demands ' being refused and bad temper can be ignored but others are best managed by helping the child cope with frustrating experiences . |
| 29 | Although many questions in parliament about aircraft accidents are put in a genuine spirit of inquiry , it can not be denied that others are merely tabled in an attempt to embarrass the minister or government of the day . |
| 30 | However , some flights will naturally be more likely to be accessed than others . |