Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] [verb] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q Could you please clear up a few points which I am sure confuse other readers as well as myself . |
| 2 | Will I be able to meet other childminders ? |
| 3 | The Faroese ( well , most of them ) maintain that those who oppose their traditional ways are people who have never had to hunt and kill to survive , who are happy to let other people ‘ do the dirty work ’ and to buy their meat ready-packaged from a supermarket ; that whale- and bird-hunting are community activities which help foster a ‘ community spirit ’ and that the birds and animals are all used for human food . |
| 4 | It 's simply that on even the sunniest days you are unlikely to meet other walkers in the sorts of numbers typical elsewhere . |
| 5 | In the new version , Shared Ark , you are likely to encounter other people doing their own experiments from their own workstations . |
| 6 | Because when you do that then that encourages you to , oh yes , well we can , you know , that went quite well but we ought to have done that and that and then you immediately , you , you 're eager to do other things and people get used to splitting up and tackling things in a focused way . |
| 7 | As John Lennon sang ‘ Life is what happens to you while you 're busy making other plans ’ . |
| 8 | And he quoted John Lennon by saying : ‘ Life is what happens to you while you 're busy making other plans . ’ |
| 9 | The writer in us has to know that we are making it a priority , that we are prepared to let other obligations go in order to play with it , nourish it , accord it a central place in our lives . |
| 10 | If we are selling the property we are able to recommend other surveyors to you . |
| 11 | ‘ It means we are free to pursue other offers of public support , ’ he said . |
| 12 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 13 | The added advantage for parents is that they can listen to audio tapes in the car on their way to work or as a background while they are busy doing other things around the house . |
| 14 | They are welcome to hold other kinds of fund raising events in the castle . ’ |
| 15 | They are unlikely to welcome other rail operators creaming off their business . |
| 16 | Eventually they were able to raise other people in the house . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's nice to let other people have their shot too — I 'm quite happy to be a member of the audience for a while . ’ |
| 18 | it 's nice to have other people . |
| 19 | In some cases it is appropriate to choose other rewards that are more motivating to children , like a surprise bag with little gifts in it into which children can place their hands and find a surprise . |
| 20 | Apple , which has agreements with Sony Corp that could lead to similar developments in the consumer electronics market , indicates that it is keen to conclude other such agreements . |
| 21 | In other words , chords on the third to sixth degrees of the scale are only inversions of chords on the first and second degrees : Clearly this makes for rather meagre harmonic material if we limit ourselves only to triadic usage , so it is better to exploit other kinds of chord shapes which will serve to produce impressions of greater harmonic variety . |
| 22 | Would-be buyers who have been returning home empty-handed ( because they have not been offering sufficiently high prices ) have not learned that it is necessary to outbid other buyers ; would-be sellers who return home with unsold goods or resources ( because they have been asking prices that are too high ) have not learned that they must , if they wish to sell , be satisfied with lower prices . |
| 23 | In the case of more general or abstract essays ( on whole works , on authors or on critical issues ) , it is necessary to find other means of organising an argument — though some of the means also turn out to be applicable when looking at individual passages . |
| 24 | With the invitations , it is helpful to give other parents a few ideas as to how they may make their children 's costumes . |
| 25 | It is possible to foresee other evidential problems . |
| 26 | It is inefficient to treat other markets as if that distortion did not exist . |
| 27 | To get the most out of TV and radio appearances it is sensible to inform other departments in your organisation who can capitalise on it that the piece will be appearing . |
| 28 | It is easier to involve other family members and useful information may be gained by seeing a patient in his home . |
| 29 | Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp : Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive , saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities — but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer . |
| 30 | It was good to discuss other people 's problems . |