Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] another [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He craves success the way an alcoholic longs for another drink .
2 He appears to have got what he wanted and will remain at the Ballycastle Road Showgrounds for another year at least .
3 I think it has about another fortnight to run Wendy .
4 The breeder programme also lives for another year .
5 Firdaus is so stung by this that she looks for another job .
6 The male then looks for another mate and he may escort as many as five females through the nest .
7 Growth is once again the watchword as the country looks for another period of expansion in higher education .
8 However , if a particular journalist writes about another part of your range of products it might be tactically useful to send samples of an inexpensive new product , even though it is not in his area , simply to remind him of your existence and to jog his memory about the rest of the range .
9 Looks like another christening .
10 Yeah you can s you can imagine walking round here for fourteen months , and then one w one back of one walkway looks like another walkway .
11 PostScript normally eliminates whatever lies under another object but , by using the overprint option , it can be forced to leave the background intact so that the topmost colour combines with that underneath to produce a different effect .
12 For you , the route certainly lies in another direction entirely .
13 South of Milan lies Bologna , a city whose fame lies in another chapter , in the university founded by the students of the eleventh and twelfth centuries , and so we turn west and south to Liguria and Tuscany , where we meet the cities of the seacoast or the great rivers , Genoa and Pisa and Lucca , Venice 's main rivals for the maritime trade and the great colonial empires .
14 And if someone writes in another language , you wo n't get it for a long time .
15 What if the critic of a choice lives in another society with a different moral code ?
16 ‘ He lives in another world half the time .
17 She lives in another world .
18 That lady is taking her children to see their grandmother who lives in another forest about fifty miles away .
19 Lance , who lives in another tower block near Mark , moved there from Cannock , Staffs , to find work .
20 A steady stream of debris — shell , kernel , sticks and stones — emerges from the rollers , and passes through another series of separators .
21 I du n no , I could I could back up and remove WordPerfect , which frees about another meg and a half of memory .
22 Photons were colliding with the electrons of the atoms of the matter ; the recoil of each electron ‘ stole ’ a little energy from the relevant photon — just as the white ball in pool loses energy when it bounces off another ball , and therefore slows down .
23 It occurs after another consonant , and the way it is produced depends to some extent on the nature of that consonant .
24 " A person is guilty of an offence it he ( a ) uses towards another person , threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or ( b ) distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign … which is threatening , abusive or insulting … with intent to cause another to believe that immediate violence will be used … or to provoke ( such ) violence .
25 ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of an offence if he — ( a ) uses towards another person threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or ( b ) distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation which is threatening , abusive or insulting , with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him or another by any person , or to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another , or whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’
26 Here the convention of changing media out of respect for the person merges into another category , that of changing to the higher medium for a more serious subject-matter .
27 The vision vanishes into another crash and the audience is guided into the sound room .
28 What happens in another country can within seconds affect life in our own country .
29 If they are really separate from each other , what happens in another universe can have no observable consequences in our own universe .
30 ‘ Perhaps the best we can hope for is to conduct here a kind of uneasy holding operation until something else happens in another place ’ — but in most other respects , certainly in conclusions and prescription , they diverged to the point of confrontation .
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