Example sentences of "be [vb pp] the other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stared into the mist until my eyes hurt , ahead , off both quarters , in case we 'd been carried the other way , even astern . |
| 2 | If mass had been negative , space-time would have been curved the other way , like the surface of a saddle . |
| 3 | And we can see the rates for which the deduction is going to be applied the other side . |
| 4 | His comment about ‘ that cat Wilson not being able to handle approval ratings like mine ’ can also be turned the other way round . |
| 5 | Of course the game can be played the other way round and even crude Austinian positivism might be treated as vindicated by the English criminal statute . |
| 6 | ( Net present value calculations can , however , be bent the other way , to justify massive strategic overkill with catastrophic socio-economic — and political — consequences . |
| 7 | The answer to the last of the three questions should perhaps be put the other way round . |
| 8 | PP may ask , ‘ What is … noted for ? ’ or the question may be put the other way round — ‘ Which city is noted for … ? ’ |
| 9 | But the argument might as well be put the other way round : his inability to formulate counterfactuals is just one consequence of the difficulties attendant Upon a theory of such scope and grandiloquent abstraction . |
| 10 | The problem can also be stated the other way . |
| 11 | Mm I 'm buttoned the other side , now I do n't want it undone do n't want my buttons undone . |
| 12 | Then , in that mean , ill-lit corridor I collided with another prisoner being pushed the other way . |
| 13 | THE MINEMA IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE makes a welcome reopening with La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento ( 15 ) , the shorter version of Jacques Rivette 's splendid La Belle Noiseuse which runs for four hours and which we were shown the other day . |
| 14 | no that 's spelt the other way F A I R anyone help him ? |
| 15 | In the second kind of model , which expands forever , space is bent the other way , like the surface of a saddle . |
| 16 | If one of a pair of riding boots is damaged the other boot can not be used on its own and we should pay for the cost of a new pair . |
| 17 | The fact that the other child cries and you shout at her lets her know that it was naughty — and may stop her doing it again if you 're lucky — but it does n't mean she understands the pain she 's caused the other child . |
| 18 | Sara paused a moment and then said , " She 's left the other half to Matthew Preston . " |
| 19 | This guy went out with Lee next day , and I was standing at the back of the 9th green when Lee 's manager came running up to me and said , ‘ Willie , you 've got to take the bag — Lee 's fired the other guy . ’ |
| 20 | Billy Neilson , a prominent Wear Valley councillor until last May 's Christopherian coup , was approached the other day by someone seeking to set up a small business in Sunderland . |
| 21 | ‘ Listen — you know how worried she sounded when she was interviewed the other day ? |
| 22 | It was hung the other way around from her own , and the door handle was on the right hand side ; not on the left as it was in her own time . |
| 23 | Same as labour was done the other day . |
| 24 | ‘ That subject also was raised the other evening . ’ |
| 25 | The speed limit on our motorways was reduced the other day , and I give a cheer for that . |
| 26 | In that context , is not the continued closure of Bir Zeit university , which was announced the other day , an intolerable provocation , and should not it be condemned ? |
| 27 | Yeah but even he was gone the other night . |
| 28 | The question was posed the other day by David Holden in the ‘ Sunday Times ’ , returning from a visit here . |
| 29 | Lieutenant-general Wolfgang Schwanitz , the new head of the Office for National Security , the former Stasi , was asked the other day why he had not opposed and exposed excesses when he was deputy head of the organisation . |
| 30 | ‘ That girl who was killed the other night , they 've been checking the area . ’ |