Example sentences of "[prep] other [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 Jonathon Pendrous ; by day a cleaner clearing up the stage after other peoples ' glory , but by night when the actors have gone home , and the audience has left the theatre to its ghostly past …
2 In 1975 the Council agreed to the award of the degree of Master of Education , on condition that it was not taken as a precedent for a variety of other masters ' degree titles .
3 Other telecommunications companies which have booked space at HOTECH '91 include : Western Telecom , now part of the Alcatel group ; GPT Sales & Services ; Ascom Telecommunications ; 3C Communications , which is establishing telecom links with an increasing number of other suppliers ' systems ; and Mitel Telecom , which was involved in the refit at The Dorchester , London .
4 A practitioner 's assessment of other artists ' work , often in the light of making similar attempts , can make intriguing reading .
5 But centuries of migration , conquest , occupation , intermarriage , trade and cultural exchange — not to mention the tendency of artists to copy or reinterpret the most successful facets of other artists ' work — have eroded much of this exclusivity .
6 It shows that the sound of other males ' singing is not necessary for the development .
7 His contract is up at the end of the season , and there will be the traditional periodic reports of other clubs ' interest in him .
8 Mark asked him how he could reconcile his views with what was clearly Britain s basic needs ; the need to maintain a strong manufacturing base as a defence capability ; the need to correct a massive and worsening trade deficit on manufactured products ; and the need to provide talented school-leavers with creative career opportunities in the manufacturing sector as designers , physicists , chemists and engineers as opposed to the more mundane jobs in the service sector as warehousemen and handlers of other countries ' goods .
9 Given that the video is intended for international sale , 's requests concerning the respecting of other countries ' mores ( especially to do with the representation of minorities , religion , sex and violence ) will be adhered to .
10 Given that the video is intended for international sale , 's requests concerning the respecting of other countries ' mores ( especially to do with the representation of minorities , religion , sex and violence ) will be adhered to .
11 Given that the video is intended for international sale , 's requests concerning the respecting of other countries ' mores ( especially to do with the representation of minorities , religion , sex and violence ) will be adhered to .
12 The bit of the UN charter that tells nosey parkers to keep out of other countries ' business is less respected than it was , as Saddam Hussein knows to his cost .
13 In Scotland during the past year we have witnessed the distasteful spectacle of Dounreay scouring the planet and touting for business as the nuclear prostitute of the world , seeking to sign as many contracts as possible to dispose of other countries ' spent nuclear fuel while the clock ticks away towards the 1994 deadline set by the Government when funding for the 250 MW prototype fast reactor will cease .
14 Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered .
15 She was so kind when I was orphaned , she always made sure I was fed by organizing a rota of other Girls ' mothers who took me in until I was fourteen ; otherwise I would have ended up in an orphanage .
16 Freud 's technique of using material obtained from patients to help to understand the emotions of what he called ‘ primitives ’ does seem a way into the otherwise obscure area of other cultures ' sentiments .
17 On the grounds that these seem to be used paradigmatically for ordering , questioning and asserting , respectively , one might argue that it is pointless to search for internal linguistic motivations for these three sentence-types : they recur in the languages of the world because humans are , perhaps , specifically concerned with three functions of language in particular — the organizing of other persons ' actions , the eliciting of information , and the conveying of-formation .
18 Social workers are highly critical of other professions ' seeming unaccountability , most notably doctors and police officers , but are notoriously unwilling to look at their own .
19 It might make sense to the financial director faced with a demand which far outweighs supply ; after all , this recycling of other houses ' wines is perfectly legal , but it is at the same time deliberately hoodwinking the public .
20 It looks at the impact a nation 's economic performance has on the economies of other nations ' ( ‘ spillover' effects ) and at the strategic policy responses which such spillover effects may induce .
21 The advantage of this approach is that the analyst 's intuitive notions of " what is going on " in the conversation do not occupy a central role , being replaced instead by an analysis of the talk in terms of other participants ' reactions and responses .
22 In return , Central Bank governor Jose Cuisia agreed that US$344 million of other banks ' loans would be eligible for bond conversion , while securing the right of the Philippines to take action against any bank later found to have been involved in fraudulent transactions .
23 Reading or hearing of other pilots ' experiences emphasises how easy it is for even seasoned pilots to make mistakes .
24 As an arranger of other composers ' music , Ball was a master craftsman who carried out his work with a respect for the original and an integrity rarely found today .
25 The musical analogy suggests that there is no general obligation of that kind ; the responsibility of the teacher lies much more in having an intimate understanding of other academics ' research and in being able to give an interpretation of it .
26 His poetic voice is unmistakable , and yet it was composed from a number of other poets ' voices which he adapted or borrowed .
27 These , referred to in his diary , may just have been to illustrate special copies of other authors ' guide books .
28 In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness .
29 Insofar as I can claim to have had any original scientific ideas , these have sometimes been misunderstandings , or misreadings , of other peoples ' ideas .
30 The present aerospace boom will provide the Japanese with opportunities to build parts of other peoples ' airliners .
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