Example sentences of "[conj] at the other " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be so slight as to be hardly worth the name … or at the other extreme , it can almost totally paralyse action . ’ |
| 2 | … the child with a severe visual handicap may be diffident , or at the other extreme , amazingly precocious . |
| 3 | The more sceptical and critical attitude towards nationalism which appeared to develop in the postwar period , and the fresh attempts to create ( even within a limited area ) supranational organizations , or at the other end of the spectrum to revive local and regional communities , provided an opportunity to redirect the sense of belonging , at least to some extent , upon political units other than the nation state . |
| 4 | The reason it 's in this format , is this is now the national standard form of accounts for social services , and the thinking behind it is , whether you were an authority that provided all of its services directly at one extreme , or at the other extreme , you were in a party that provided no direct services , and bought them all in from other providers , you would still need to meet , to meet those costs . |
| 5 | When you start to build bonfires in someone 's back garden , there 's never enough space between the fire and the property , and consequently you can get all sorts of damage er either of a minor nature of blistering , or at the other end of the scale complete burn out of the house . |
| 6 | Well I think one of the advantages of a nursery schooling is certainly a considerable amount of social interaction for the children , which very often they wo n't be obtaining , either if they 're living in high rise flats , or at the other end of the social spectrum if they 're parents are living in large houses with large gardens and no other children within the vicinity . |
| 7 | Or at the other end , we get a reaction which is entirely aggressive , because the child is trying to grapple with something he does n't understand , he does n't get a sense of caring feeling from the person trying to teach him , so he reacts aggressively . |
| 8 | Well I think one of the advantages of a nursery schooling is certainly a considerable amount of social interaction for the children , which very often they wo n't be obtaining , either if they 're living in high rise flats , or at the other end of the social spectrum if their parents are living in large houses with large gardens and no other children within the vicinity . |
| 9 | Nor at the other extreme must they be technically efficient robots . |
| 10 | ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’ |
| 11 | The second showed that at the other pole is the city . |
| 12 | Flying still excites me with that curious mixture of fear — knowing the plane has the aerodynamics of a brick once the forward thrust is lost — and the knowledge that at the other end of the journey there will be new sounds and smells and things to look at . |
| 13 | He adds that at the other end of his society 's new building — a pink neo-classical palace — there are men in braces and loud shirts dealing on the Tokyo capital markets as they order pizzas . |
| 14 | For example a second-order function , , may be defined so that the probability that the velocity at one point lies between u 1 and u 1 + du 1 and that at the other point simultaneously lies between u 2 and u 2 + du 2 is . |
| 15 | The situation in this respect is better for those at the younger end of the group than at the other , but a man or woman who was 40 in 1978 was only 10 in 1948 ; an impressionable age and a time before there was much relaxation in sexual codes . |
| 16 | If the magnetic field happens to be larger at one side than at the other side , then the beam will be deflected towards the weaker field which makes the field even weaker , etc. , leading to the so-called kink instability ( Fig. 3.3(b) ) . |
| 17 | The heads form a cap which covers the shoulder joint , and they are attached at one end to the upper arm and at the other end to 3 points to the front , top and back of the shoulder . |
| 18 | Thus there are in the cytoplasm many different kinds of tRNA molecule , each kind being characterized by two ‘ labels ’ : at one end is the anticodon ( which pairs with a codon in the message ) , and at the other end an attachment site for an amino acid ( which is recognized by an enzyme carrying that particular amino acid ) . |
| 19 | South Wales with its early potato enterprises headed the specialised markets and at the other end of the scale Speyside , Powys and Cumbria had little or no specialised farming enterprises . |
| 20 | We have all heard of examples of the deepest psychological states being cured with a 6c potency and at the other extreme a 50M being needed for a sprained ankle . |
| 21 | They bring home the inequality of material conditions : at the one extreme old men in filthy lodgings chopping a few sticks to keep warm , and at the other the lady of the manor supported by servants and a companion in her immaculate drawing-room . |
| 22 | We encounter the contrasts between at one extreme domesticated grandfathers , and at the other , elderly couples at war . |
| 23 | For example , among those carers living with a dementia sufferer , there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much , because they went out to work , or because they themselves were frail ; and at the other extreme were people who ‘ did everything ’ for a sufferer , and rarely left the house without him or her . |
| 24 | Within the minutiae of the constable 's experience , policing the street daily met consent and at the other pole , antagonism . |
| 25 | At the one end it is very shallow and at the other end it is deep . |
| 26 | Most religions , Christianity among them , would appear to have degenerated to a point where they can be used to provide , at one extreme , a justification for intense civil turmoil by violent and cruel people , and at the other , justification for luxurious globe-trotting and conference-attending by a ritual-ridden and pomp-loving hierarchy . |
| 27 | The centre-piece was a perspiring bloke who was plainly at the end of his tether and at the other end of the tatty tether was a huge hairy bundle who 'd decided he was now one of the family and acting in a suitably demented manner ; noise effects included whoops , cheers , shrieks , curses , admonitions and deep explosive barks which provided punctuation in the manner of the cannon fire in the 1812 Overture . |
| 28 | Jake Howard , who was on the Australian coaching staff for the World Cup , has joined Wanderers for next year and at the other end of Lansdowne Road the Landsdowne club have enrolled Graeme Taylor , formerly a Counties back and more lately involved with the All Blacks ‘ seconds ’ squad . |
| 29 | Buckingham Palace is at one end of the Mall , and at the other end people are sleeping in cardboard boxes . |
| 30 | Would you accept that the major role models are , at one end of the spectrum , Debbie Harry and Madonna , and at the other , Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman ? |