Example sentences of "[vb -s] every other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later we will revise the writing more stringently : pruning , shifting the weight , reordering , until every part holds every other part and it stands : it means what we want it to mean . |
| 2 | The previous Secretary of State — the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) , now chairman of the Conservative party — had promised two years ago that he would have a look at SSAs ; that promise , however , came to nothing , as has every other Government promise relating to local administration . |
| 3 | So if you think about it a therapeutic group could certainly use suggestive therapy like hypnosis and my guess is that most successful groups like Alcoholics Anonymous or groups of people who wan na stop smoking or do slimming and things like that succeed for that reason , cos every member of the group reinforces every other member with a kind of group super ego and says look , you must n't smoke , you must n't drink , you must n't put on weight and it , it reinforces every individual 's erm super ego by means of identification with the shared value of the group and similarly reduces feelings of shame and guilt if the individual fails the group , cos next week when they come back they say oh dear , I 've put on five pounds , erm that they 're gon na feel bad about it because it offends against the ideal of the of the group if it 's Weight Watchers or something . |
| 4 | All I do is 10 or 15 minutes of my own exercises every other day when I remember . |
| 5 | That 's not like him , he shaves every other day . |
| 6 | Now he shaves every other evening , carries a gun and does n't sing no more . |
| 7 | Fact : whenever the NME staff get all babyish and gooey over a band , I get suspicious because it happens every other week . |
| 8 | Ribber knits every other needle on every row |
| 9 | Perhaps What 's Brewing could feature an up-to-date list of local beer guides every other month , alternating with the painfully unfunny P.A. Newton column ? — DAVE WHITE , Wigan . |
| 10 | Carry out water changes every other day to keep pollutants to a minimum and keep a good lid on the tank so the air above the water is of a similar temperature , when the labyrinth organ develops . |
| 11 | " I suppose it must be how Nick Faldo feels every other week … " |
| 12 | It is potentially tricky , he agrees , with the possibility that ‘ ISDN cannibalises every other business ’ . |
| 13 | This means that a man sacrifices every other aspect of himself to the job and forgets his other roles , such as father , son , brother , friend and lover , and also forgets that in his teens , perhaps , he liked playing the piano , going to football matches , singing in the choir and writing short stories . |
| 14 | Such thinking is part of a long tradition , finding its most clear formulation in the political philosophy of Hobbes where human society is presented as being in a state of ‘ warre ’ in which every man fights every other man for control of resources and for the ( presumed ) pleasure of dominance . |