Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that period of decentralized feudalism , one clan ( the Tokugawa ) usurped the authority of the Emperor and ruled over other clans within a structure which prohibited almost all contact with the outside world . |
| 2 | For instance , The Health and Safety at Work Act ( 1974 ) and its associated regulations , impose duties on persons who design , manufacture , import or supply articles for use at work to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that they are safe , and to test them , provide proper information , carry out research with a view to the elimination of risks and to carry out other duties . |
| 3 | An open policy to trade may be maintained if the nation is doing well economically , but a less successful economic position may lead to swift and much more extreme action to erect trade barriers and bring in other sanctions . |
| 4 | We complete forms and reports and act out other behaviours in response to written or electronic signals received from other reports , memos , terminals , deadlines , diaries , etc . |
| 5 | well I think it would be easier to go straight down here and walk out other door , one of other doors , it 's not as far I do n't think , the way I 've come it 's not , it 's quite a way like what er |
| 6 | A separate oxygen analyser directly below screen checks oxygen levels and cuts off other gases if supply fails . |
| 7 | An outstanding example of this type of narrative is Vargas Llosa 's Conversation in the Cathedral , which pivots around a four-hour conversation between two characters , the whole novel being made up of dialogue and narrative units generated in waves by the central conversation , as the two men 's review of their past lives sparks off inner thoughts and recollections and conjures up other conversations and dramatized episodes . |
| 8 | In the 1980s a change in political attitudes affected a long-standing commitment to public-sector plan making , and different policy initiatives have sought to reduce local authority provision of housing and play down other forms of local planning . |
| 9 | For twenty years his widowed mother had kept a small shop in a St Helens slum , only accepting an occasional small amount of money and putting off other help with ‘ the same naive reply : ‘ It 's very good of you , dear lad , and I appreciate it , but as long as I can manage it , I shall prefer to have my feet under my own fender . ’ |
| 10 | Many developing nations argue that since the industrialized countries are the world 's main polluters , they should pay for improvements in the global environment ; and since they are rich , they should pay for the transfers of technology necessary for the developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions , stop deforestation and carry out other changes . |
| 11 | It has stimulated duty solicitor schemes , including schemes at prisons ; encouraged law centres ; monitored the grant and refusal of legal aid in magistrates ’ courts ; provided training for volunteer workers at advice agencies ; published a leaflet aimed at those who have suffered accidents ; produced directories of advice agencies ; and taken on other responsibilities connected with the stimulation and co-ordination of legal services . |
| 12 | Your skin is being bombarded with sunrays which are scattered and reflected off other surfaces . |
| 13 | His wickets ( 383 ) and catches off other bowlers thus aggregate to 492 . |