Example sentences of "[that] [verb] to other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These countries could trade with Britain without being subject to the import duties and restrictions that applied to other countries and British capital could be invested in Sterling Area countries without restriction . |
| 2 | Ports , especially great ports , are never quite where they seem to be — a corner , a quay , the light filtering past funnels and masts on either side , there is always something that belongs to other places and other times . |
| 3 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 4 | The following remark of Dennis Altman 's , even if not strictly correct historically , rightly implies how the negation of desire and the negation of difference are in practice often inseparable : ‘ the original purpose of the categorization of homosexuals as people apart was to project the homosexuality in everyone onto a defined minority as a way of externalizing forbidden desires and reassuring the majority that homosexuality is something that happens to other people ’ ( Homosexualization , 72 ) . |
| 5 | CRIME is no longer something that happens to other people . |
| 6 | With a sexual history spanning more than twenty years and including fifty or sixty different partners , he regarded VD as something that happened to other people , and was somewhat surprised to develop a mild urethral discharge five weeks after first sleeping with his new girl-friend , Angela , who was younger than him and relatively sexually inexperienced . |
| 7 | It had the glamour that attaches to other people 's privileges ; Barbara did not resent the lack of advantages her own parents had given her , but she wanted those advantages for her own children . |
| 8 | ‘ Having done the Tunstall settlement — which was really driven by concern over the costs , it seemed to us that we had a moral obligation to extend that deal to other shareholders , ’ Ernst & Young 's national marketing partner David Wilson told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 9 | follow the rules that apply to other road users , observing the warning signs and those giving orders , traffic lights , pedestrian crossings , one-way streets and the requirements of the Highway Code |
| 10 | follow the rules that apply to other road users observing the warning signs and those giving orders , traffic lights , pedestrian crossings , one-way streets and the requirements of the Highway Code |
| 11 | follow the rules that apply to other road users , observing the warning signs and those giving orders , traffic lights , pedestrian crossings , one-way streets and the requirements of the Highway Code |
| 12 | We are continuing to use the two-dimensional wake as a context for ideas that apply to other flows as well . |