Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [prep] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty pounds a week could benefit the whole school , if it were put to other uses . ’ |
| 2 | Yet , like the Christian cross , the sacral horns were used in a general symbolic way , and it may be that the Labyrinth was , as a whole , dedicated to Poteidan even though individual sanctuaries and shrines within it were dedicated to other deities , in much the same way that within a cathedral there may be chapels dedicated to a variety of Christian saints . |
| 3 | In a sense , this was the final insult to a medium which must sell to survive ; it was lumped with other categories such as packaging and corporate identity , also judged by designers . |
| 4 | For years it was hidden behind other trees and rhododendron bushes . |
| 5 | It was dismissed by other experts , however , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before sufficient people developed cancer . |
| 6 | Heads played a crucial part in developing such a culture , but it was sustained by other leaders ( especially deputies ) and by active participation of staff members . |
| 7 | There is no need that the dangerous matter should ‘ escape ’ from the site on which it was kept onto other land . |
| 8 | The ‘ inside ’ seems to be everything a person knows and hence the familiar was ego-centred but it was bounded by other members of the group following certain rules . |
| 9 | It was used in other valuations ( for example specialist military equipment — mostly frigates , aircraft , and helicopters ) . |
| 10 | This collapse of the immune system which results in bizarre killer infections or rapidly spreading cancers had to be renamed when it was found in other groups — heroin addicts , haemophiliacs , Haitians , even babies . |
| 11 | Then I remembered Stephen Roskill telling me not to believe a word Mountbatten said or claimed unless it was corroborated from other sources . |
| 12 | At first it was included with other Shorthorns in the Coates herdbook from its inception in 1822 , but in 1896 the Lincoln became separate and established its own Lincoln Red herdbook . |
| 13 | Some of it was mixed with other ingredients as a compost , some of it was used as pure money . |
| 14 | Possibly the deaths of the Chancellor and the Treasurer undermined the confidence of the King 's surviving ministers , and it was left to other loyalists to act on their own initiative . |