Example sentences of "this [conj] [prep] other [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , in this and in other countries , rich people pay higher rates of tax on their marginal earnings above a given level . |
| 2 | Thus practice and theory were often far apart , in this and in other ways , even in the classical feudalism , feudalism as it was known in the north of France between the ninth and the twelfth century . |
| 3 | The likelihood is that in this as in other matters Beowulf is meant to appear a good prophet , since the unsuccessful , possibly treacherous , but in heroic terms entirely praiseworthy attack which Ingeld made on his father-in-law is repeatedly mentioned in Northern story . |
| 4 | If committees were to be as business-like in this as in other matters , they would resort to this method rather than to mountebank exhibitions , in which the bold and unscrupulous fare best , and the honest and modest worst and there would be fewer vain regrets and miserable depositions afterwards , than is unhappily the case at present . |
| 5 | In this as in other areas , the fundamental error in our approach to policing is revealed : we do not trust the police so we build safeguards into the way they exercise their power . |
| 6 | In this as in other areas the ends can never justify the means . |
| 7 | The Government fully recognise the importance of the industry that my hon. Friend the Member for Harborough , ( Sir J. Farr ) so ably represents , and we want proper GATT disciplines for fair trading in this as in other sectors . |
| 8 | The words written by Hinrich Medau in 1933 continue to guide our work today : ‘ The all-important inspiration of Medau work still remains the close connection between movement and music and we are constantly working at the deepening and widening of our knowledge in this as in other spheres ’ . |
| 9 | In this as in other respects particular groups within a class may be rising or falling in importance , according to the general development of the class and the society . |
| 10 | The Central Asian nationalities were the most resistant to russification in this as in other respects : no more than 3 per cent of any of the five major nationalities concerned claimed Russian as a native language in the 1989 census , a much lower proportion than for the non-Russian population as a whole , and levels of fluency in Russian were also much lower than among minority nationalities elsewhere in the USSR . |
| 11 | In this as in other respects ( see Halliday 1971 : 354 ) the language of the second part of The Inheritors is an interesting blend of the standard language and the norms established in the text . |