Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] other [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 English poststructuralists , when wearing their Marxist hats , would undoubtedly want to insist that ideas belong in larger contexts , social , cultural , and political , and can not easily be abstracted and appropriated to other ends .
2 Though not all his points are equally well taken , there can be no doubt that he is right in his basic assertion that the Kanunname is shot through with anachronisms suggesting sixteenth-century alterations and additions and that any provision of it must be treated with reserve and checked against other sources before being accepted as being genuinely of the time of Mehmed II .
3 The extended professional , on the other hand , is concerned with locating his classroom teaching in a broader educational context , comparing his work with that of other teachers , evaluating his own work systematically , and collaborating with other teachers .
4 Perhaps they would go down to the harbour in the evening and watch the yachts coming in to the anchorage , and sit with other groups at the chairs and tables outside the Bell Inn .
5 It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth .
6 They come to me , whining and wheedling , ‘ old Mother , this , make him fall in love with me , ’ ‘ old Mother , that , he 's a good man , I love him , but he beats me and goes with other women . ’
7 They became relevant for science only when they were formulated and communicated as observation statements capable of being utilized and criticized by other scientists .
8 In the course of their work , which they characteristically , in the terms of their sector , did not see as collective but as a series of specialist contributions , they intersected and overlapped with other groupings and other classes .
9 With practice this skill becomes instinctive and you do n't have to think about your sailing — you can just switch yourself to ‘ automatic pilot ’ and concentrate on other aspects of the race .
10 One such hypothesis with respect to tropical trees argues that the solid bole of a tree locks up an enormous amount of nutrients and that , if this could be recycled by ‘ employing ’ micro-organisms to rot down the heartwood , thus providing a roost for animals whose nests and droppings would subsequently rot too , the roots of long-lived organisms like trees would be prevented from exhausting local resources and competing with other roots , and the chemicals produced to prevent heartrotting would be saved .
11 Biochemical indicators of renal tubular stimulation predicted response to treatment , but these indicators depended on the response criteria used : low serum phosphate and low TmP correlated with a poor response when length of response was examined , whereas TmCa correlated with a fall in CCa from day 0 to day 6 , and accord with other studies that used this response criterion .
12 Drain and rinse the chick peas and kidney beans and combine with other beans .
13 The legislative function is exercised mainly through Parliament which has the power to make laws of general applicability and to grant to other bodies the power to make delegated legislation under authority of an act of parliament .
14 Particularly in hospital , communicating is the only means patients have of acquiring information about their illness , telling staff of problems , keeping in contact with relatives and relating to other patients .
15 Later renamed and amalgamated with other papers , Baragumu continued as Taifa Tanzania ( ‘ The Nation , Tanzania ’ ) .
16 These treaties have not remained immutable but have been amended and supplemented by other treaties over the course of time .
17 Some managers found it ‘ painful ’ to relinquish their traditional directive management style and moved to other parts of the company .
18 The maggots had done their work in those sockets and moved to other pastures .
19 It 's just that erm the I S O version , as you quite rightly say , is sort of recognized and used in other countries .
20 The simple task devised by Kinsbourne and Cook ( 1971 ) was subsequently taken up and modified by other investigations .
21 A final problem is that these substances may be taken up into the blood supply as it passes through the brain and carried to other parts of the body where they may have toxic effects that confound their effects on the nervous system .
22 Larvae may also be picked up by the bloodstream and carried to other organs ; and some might reach the anterior mesenteric artery , which is the main source of blood to the intestines .
23 Its running expenses are provided by Marburg University , and Volkswagen and IBM are paying handsomely for its computerisation and networking to other institutions .
24 The buffet provided at this year 's Meeting with the opportunity to meet and chat with other members does not seem to have had sufficient appeal to justify another evening out .
25 The Goths , who came from Gotland in the late third century divided and merged with other peoples .
26 He would have preferred Grégoire to go to school and mix with other children .
27 It is time to take account of that difference between perceiving from ‘ Now ’ and ‘ I ’ and imagining from other viewpoints which we have so far put aside as irrelevant.4 Although one can respond with some awareness to remote or hypothetical situations , and evaluate them sub specie aeternitatis , everyone 's actual choices of ends are of course confined to his own present and future and to his effective scope of action .
28 Ski equipment importers had big stocks of last year 's skis and boots still on their hands and ski shops were desperately running sales and searching for other sports to make up for the fact that no one was buying skigear .
29 Their potential has already been recognised and exploited in other fields — schools will not so much be moving with the times as running to catch up .
30 Possible explanations for this pattern include the fact that nouns generally refer to concrete objects that can be easily described and related to other objects .
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