Example sentences of "it is [verb] [prep] other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is differentiated from other ovine lungworms by its larger size and straight tail .
2 Originally , as someone interested in medical sociology and medical law , I wanted to see how medical evidence becomes translated into appropriate legal terms in child abuse cases , and how it is balanced against other evidence ( Cavenagh , 1975 ) .
3 In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ .
4 ( representations , concepts , facts ) which it is given by other practices , whether ‘ empirical ’ , ‘ technical ’ or ‘ ideological ’ .
5 The disease may remain dormant and undetected until it is transmitted to other fish through abrasions to the skin .
6 The example cited by the hon. Gentleman from his constituency is well known to hon. Members because it is repeated in other constituencies .
7 The company says it is porting to other platforms in September , hinting at ICL and Hewlett Packard .
8 The paradox about all this information explosion or whatever it is called is that the speed of its distribution is so high and the actual receiving of it by a human being is so necessarily slow and far more inefficient than it is achieved by other methods , such as reading printed marks on paper .
9 It is spreading to other firms too , as banks weed out their client lists in order to raise profits and cut asset growth .
10 It is replicated at other centres and units in district general hospitals providing neurological services throughout Britain .
11 But no parish is a closed community — it is bounded by other communities ( and sometimes by the sea ) and all these have helped to shape its boundaries , layout , population and activities .
12 But once the land is thus rough-hewn it is shaped by other forces .
13 How a person perceives changes may be affected by how it is perceived by other members of the family and society .
14 The sphere of everyday life is experienced as ordered and consistent which is because it is shared with other people and what is shared is , precisely , knowledge of everyday reality :
15 ‘ poeticity ’ , he says , is like oil in cooking ; you can not have it on its own but when it is used with other food it is more than a mere addition .
16 Easy to dye , it is used with other fabrics such as Cordura for lightweight and fashion boots .
17 The morpheme which is glossed as " father " may have extended meanings when it is used in other contexts , but its real meaning is " father " in its ordinary English sense of " male parent " .
18 The difference between a good thinker and an average thinker is often the difference in ability to extract something significant from where it is buried amongst other matters .
19 OfficePower for Unix currently only supports ICL 's long time relational database partner , Ingres , though there are plans to bring the Oracle Corp offering into play , and the company confirms that it is talking to other companies too .
20 Digital Equipment Corp says that its Alpha second source agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corp is not an exclusive pact and that it is talking with other firms that may become second sources of the chip ; ‘ We are not looking for a large number of semiconductor partners , however we are having discussions with other semiconductor companies ; those relationships could happen at various levels , ’ — DEC may still seek other firms to design versions without the marketing that Mitsubishi is providing .
21 In the towns , the main struggle for the economic model comes to an end with the victory of the proletariat ; in the country … it is resurrected in other forms as a struggle between the state planning of a proletariat which embodies socialised labour and the commodity anarchy , the speculative licence of a peasantry which embodies scattered property and the anarchic element of the market … a simple commodity economy is merely the embryo of a capitalist economy …
22 The habit is best known in tits , particularly great tits ( Parus major ) and blue tits ( P. caeruleus ) ; but it is found in other species too .
23 It is known from other work that economic and political attitudes and actions are channelled by the individual 's requirement for personal esteem and social approval .
24 Accordingly when Bilbo and Frodo say they will pursue it , eagerly or wearily , till it is intersected by other roads , lives , wishes , and will then continue into the unknown , if they can , they are expressing a mixture of doubt and determination — exactly the qualities Gandalf so often recommends .
25 Both theories have as their basis the suggestion that a stimulus ( or stimulus element ) will be low in associability to the extent that it is the subject of excitatory associative influence — to the extent that it is predicted by other stimuli or stimulus elements .
26 It is to fail in other words , to understand that literature can not simply be reduced to ideology , that literature has its own specificity , and that it consequently " reflects " the social process in a highly complex and mediated form .
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