Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [conj] another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fancies her handsome American lodger like mad and , as he seems equally keen , she is devastated when another woman starts creeping into his room late at night . |
| 2 | The drugs prescribed to relieve an attack force the respiratory passages to allow air in and out , but until the conflict about feelings is resolved or another outlet found , attacks will recur . |
| 3 | When Atropos , who snips the threads of life , misses one thread she cuts another , and we who do not know why one thread is missed and another cut call it Fate , Kismet or what we will . |
| 4 | Eventually she convinces the caller that the timing is somewhat inconvenient as the square will be fully occupied by the parade ; a revised time is agreed and another crisis is averted . |
| 5 | The dead girl links The Two April Mornings to the ‘ Lucy ’ poems , and since Emma is used as another name for Dorothy Wordsworth in yet another group of poems , it has been suggested that the Lucy/Matthew cycle is connected with a sublimated brother-sister relationship . |
| 6 | In this context the portentous dream is used as another example of the superstition of antiquity , rather than a statement of current belief . |
| 7 | Overshadowing ( the observation that the associative strength acquired by a target stimulus A is reduced when another event , B , is also present on reinforced trials ) and blocking ( the observation that prior reinforced training with B can effectively eliminate acquisition to A when AB trials are given ) are primary characteristics of conditioning , found in all training procedures and in almost all organisms capable of classical conditioning . |
| 8 | It takes place where an employee 's work disappears , but he is retained and another employee is dismissed instead . |
| 9 | If they agree a venous blood sample is taken and another appointment arranged within 24 hours to give the result so that the period of uncertainty and anxiety is minimised . |
| 10 | To the insensitive , theological talk seems as redundant as a prescription to a man who thinks he is well or a recipe to a man who is overfed or another cheque to a billionaire . |
| 11 | Resits may not be carried forward to another examination session , even if the particular module is repeated and another resit examination offered . |