Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] other " in BNC.

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1 The organo-mercury treatments have been withdrawn but other effective materials are now available .
2 A series of weekly car boot sales — starting on March 28 — at the brigade 's Barrack Lane site have been organised and other events are planned .
3 Since the former President , Jean-Bertrand Aristide , was overthrown last September , the director of National Radio has been kidnapped and other radio and TV employees have also disappeared .
4 Such human needs will range from the basic ones for security , which are threatened when other members of an organization wish to close part of the operation down or attempt to perform the same operations with fewer personnel , to the need for self-realization , which may be threatened by extreme specialization and limited capabilities within the division of labour perceived by those in authority to be necessary for the maximization of their objectives ( which will invariably be presented as the goals of ‘ the organization ’ ) .
5 I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment !
6 Are gambling and other forms of risk taking true addictions ?
7 As I made clear in July and as the Lord Chancellor made clear , the provision of green form legal aid will be withdrawn when other services are available , but not until then .
8 Campbell focuses on girl shoplifters , but it should be stressed that other females who shoplift , perhaps pensioners or single parents , might do so for more basic material needs .
9 The European proposals , which could add $10 a barrel to the price of oil by the end of the century , were also opposed by large-scale energy users claiming that their businesses would be hampered if other trading partners did not introduce similar measures .
10 There , on a wall plaque , can be seen that other famous fornicator of Irish origin , J F Kennedy , pictured in a pose of sublime mawkishness , eyes closed , hands joined in prayer , contemplating further exercise of droit de president .
11 Always be prepared to listen patiently to a guest 's chatter no matter how boring , but develop a technique of being able to detach , oneself politely from a conversation without giving offence , especially if there is work to be done or other people waiting for attention .
12 The first point definitely implies the second , but it must be said that other mechanisms exist in the equations for introducing folds into the return maps , so that a similar transition is observed even for b-values which do not mean that increasing r involves passing through the spiral of Fig. 6.2 .
13 An optimum path can be selected and other activities adjusted to phase in with those on this ‘ critical path ’ .
14 There are other more familiar ways in which certain parts of integers appear to be related whilst other pairs are not .
15 Equally , it must be ensured that other pupils do not see such a change as a precedent which they can then seek to exploit .
16 It can also be argued that other candidates for possible exclusion are those who are unfit for work for one reason or another .
17 It might be argued that other missing concepts in Pareto 's elite analysis are those of ‘ ideology ’ and ‘ organisation ’ .
18 it can be used when other processes can not , eg when excavation is impossible , such as leaking storage tanks located under major buildings or highways ;
19 Most people are too wrapped up in their own lives to be bothered that other people 's freedoms and rights are being infringed , until it happens to them , and then it 's too late . ’
20 However , the charges on both money and other property may be postponed or other property substituted , especially where the money or property is required to provide somewhere for the assisted person to live .
21 A consideration of the problem of standing and the practical difficulties faced by would-be litigants will be postponed until other aspects of directors ' duties have been examined , and will appear in Chapter 8 .
22 In other words , there was something inevitable in this decline — although it must be noted that other industrialized nations , such as the United States , at a similar stage in their economic development have not necessarily followed the same pattern of development .
23 This concept of a general language impairment was , in turn , made more specific with the idea that particular sub-abilities ( e.g. the production of spoken language ) can be impaired whilst other sub-abilities involved in language ( e.g. speech perception ) are spared .
24 He added : ‘ John Devereux and Richard Eyres have been allowed to play in Australia this summer and I 'm suffering because other Widnes forwards are injured . ’
25 Such lesions are by no means unique and similar patterns may be found when other parts of the gastrointestinal tract are affected by lymphoma .
26 To start with it is to be stored until other jobs are out of the way .
27 They did not — and it was admittedly no part of their business to do so — inform us for which purposes the existing social services are ‘ excessive ’ ; and it may be observed that other commentators , political and non-political , though they are frequently willing to indicate social services which in their opinion are ‘ inadequate ’ , are extremely taciturn when it comes to illustrating the more obvious half of the truism with specific examples .
28 You must come to terms with the fact that some dreams and desires are never going to be fulfilled while other equally wonderful wants and wishes will take their place .
29 You must come to terms with the fact that some dreams and desires are never going to be fulfilled while other equally wonderful wants and wishes will take their place .
30 Invited the Home Secretary to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet on the suggestion made by the Lord Chancellor that it might be possible to distinguish between certain types of murder for which capital punishment would be retained and other types for which it would be abolished .
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