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

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1 One possible explanation is that even though reproductive success probably varies more widely among males in these species , maternal rank has a stronger effect on the success of daughters since females remain in their mother 's troop and inherit her rank while sons disperse to other groups and may be unable to benefit substantially from their mother 's rank ( Altmann , 1980 ) .
2 Areas of uncertainty extend to other conditions .
3 On top of the official fee of up to 10 yuan ( about $1 ) a term , many schools add on other charges , for repairing crumbling school buildings , topping up teachers ' meagre pay or buying books , which can easily add up to the equivalent of $10 a month .
4 Some words sound like other words , even though they are orthographically dissimilar — an example would be the series " seas " , " sees " , and " seize " , all of which arc pronounced as /se:z/ and rhyme with " please " .
5 It has to be remembered that the analysis of a soldered joint will not be identical to the composition of the original solder alloy because , unlike adhesives , hard solders bond with other metals by diffusion .
6 However , it should be emphasised that the above comparisons gloss over several differences between the studies , and will become quickly outdated as heroin outbreaks emerge in other areas during the second half of the decade and the 1990s .
7 Merrows differ from other sea-fairies in that they wear red feathered caps to swim underwater .
8 In which case , the absence of random assignment , to use Lieberson 's rendering of the problem , presents special difficulties if " there is reason to believe that the subjects thereby placed in each condition differ in other ways that themselves have a bearing on the outcome of interest to the researcher " .
9 As pointed out above , it is known that extensive interconnection is a characteristic of the neocortex : thus the great majority of the input to any cell comes from other parts of the neocortex itself , and similarly most of the outputs go to other parts of the neocortex .
10 One answer is that courtship ensures that animals mate with other individuals of the correct species , sex and condition .
11 It should be noted , however , that the problems discussed above with reference to phoneme recognition apply to other units such as syllables as well .
12 Again , the normal assumption is that these will be members of his or her own party , but exceptionally a coalition may be formed in which government offices go to other parties .
13 Better bounds result from other choices of strain or stress states and have been obtained notably by Hill , by Hashin & Shtrikman and by Walpole .
14 He told delegates that the UK offshore area was under serious and immediate threat of a drastic reduction in investment as exploration opportunities arise in other areas , some with lower costs in complying with environmental requirements .
15 It is well established ( see , for example , Giles and Smith 1979 ) that speakers accommodate to other speakers — in other words , make their speech more similar to that of their interlocutor(s) — for a variety of social reasons .
16 A data structure may also be involuted where entity occurences relate to other occurrences of the same entity .
17 Not every noun has a plural form , but , because such words behave in other ways like words which do form plurals , they are admitted into the noun class , eg advice — it is impossible to say *advices , but it is accepted into the noun class .
18 Instructors sail with beginners , while experts sail with other guests , playing with spinnakers or trapezes .
19 This inevitably results in the provision of a less than satisfactory service which , of course , confirms the low status and ‘ poor ’ image of the personnel function amongst other departments and divisions .
20 No doubt circumstances vary in other districts in ways not obvious to outsiders .
21 The general lack of support for DRA products and the difficulty of establishing overall policies which discriminate in favour of disadvantaged areas add to other factors which constrain agricultural development in DRAs .
22 In what way does depreciation differ from other expenses ?
23 But the properties of mappings and functions apply to other things .
24 It soon became obvious to me that no study of black sportsmen could proceed without a very careful consideration of why blacks fail in other areas , the most important one being school .
25 This is to latt you to know and the rest of you Justes of the Pace that if Bakers and Butchers and market peopel if thay do not fall the Commorits at a reasnabell rate as thay do at other Markets thare will be such Raysen as never was known .
26 Although the majority of people who visited the Exhibition Room on Survey days appeared to be well satisfied with what they saw , it is very clear ( a ) that people who visit the Library 's Exhibition Room are largely ‘ middle class ’ , and ( b ) that comparatively few visitors come from other parts of Scotland .
27 did folk come from other parts to help with the harvest ?
28 Carnivores feed on other carnivores ( which make up 10 percent of the diet of the leopard , for example ) , scavengers feed on the dead carcases of all kinds of animal , and most important , the decomposing fungi and bacteria return the nutrients from dead bodies to the soil , from whence they can be re-used by plants .
29 How does the reliability of the standard VM diesel compare with other installations and are there any specific problem areas that we need to focus on .
30 Only 25 per cent of women over 80 who have no surviving spouse live with other members of their family .
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