Example sentences of "in other [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other incidents she might simply have placed her hand over the child 's mouth or nose , or interfered with its oxygen supply with ‘ dramatic consequence ’ . |
| 2 | The gourmet , presented with a difficult choice between two dishes , ponders which will please him more as in other circumstances he might weigh conflicting moral demands , decides which one tempts his palate , chooses to order it without even being conscious of making a second decision , let alone one which requires a logically different kind of support , and afterwards perhaps is disappointed by the dish and regrets having chosen wrongly . |
| 3 | He stood for a moment longer , looking at her , unable to speak , seeing that she was so beautiful it was hurtful to him , thinking that in other circumstances he would be unmanned by such beauty , except that he was not unmanned , that was the very last thing … |
| 4 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 5 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 6 | On the other hand , when one is obsessively searching for the solution to a problem , it may be consciously recognised when it occurs as a fluctuation in the random activity of the subconscious whereas in other circumstances it might not emerge at the conscious level at all . |
| 7 | In that case Lord Denning argued that the Court of Appeal should issue guidelines similar to those of the House of Lords in the 1966 Practice Statement , thereby enabling the Court of Appeal to depart from its own previous decision where the decision was wrong ; in other circumstances it would hold itself bound by Young v. Bristol Aeroplane Co . |
| 8 | In other circumstances it would have been comic . |
| 9 | In other circumstances it may be a very vital part of the whole , sometimes subservient , sometimes stepping forward into complete prominence . |
| 10 | Without exploring drivers ’ memories for driving in other circumstances it is impossible to know what normal memory performance in driving would be expected to be . |
| 11 | If the subject does not know the junction and is attempting to decide how risky it is likely to be in other circumstances it would make sense to extrapolate from the information in the film to decide for example how busy the junction generally is , or to simply generalize from their current feelings of risk . |
| 12 | Sometimes small bungalows have been built in the grounds of residential homes , in other developments they have been linked to a warden 's bungalow by means of alarm bells . |
| 13 | In some countries they are private industries subject to state regulation ; in other countries they are state-run or nationalized industries . |
| 14 | Meeting Thomas reminded me that human relations do n't have to be like this , that in other countries you open your account in credit , and unless you squander that goodwill by behaving like a complete arsehole , the mutual warmth continues to grow with every subsequent encounter , as though it were natural for human beings to get on together . |
| 15 | The " I am lay " is a very old ritual that in other countries you can only read about in history books . " |
| 16 | In other countries it was a vehicle for selling processed peas or indoctrinating the masses . |
| 17 | When levels exceed World Health Organisation guidelines , the result is described as ‘ good ’ — in other countries it would be called ‘ poor ’ . |
| 18 | Even if this shift is due to the availability of cheap labour power in other countries it is by no means obvious that socialists should support long-run protectionism : it may represent considerable progress for a ‘ Third World ’ worker to be exploited by capital in the production of labour-intensive commodities rather than by a landlord . |
| 19 | In other countries it is sometimes seen in dogs imported from endemic regions Gross : They are readily recognised on the basis of size ( 1.0-2.0 cm ) , being much smaller than the common ascarid nematodes which are also found in the small intestine , and by their characteristic " hook " posture . |
| 20 | In other areas we find it very difficult to learn . |
| 21 | You may not be aware that excessive usage of the lifts does in fact cost the company a great deal of money , and in line with our cost-cutting efforts in other areas I have drawn up the following guidelines , which must be strictly adhered to from now on . |
| 22 | I 'm not sure how well that would wash with some people they 're i in an area that , like yeah which was very er oppressed and where the , the warlords and the landlords were screwing the peasants I can see that there 's enough pent up er fear er and angers so that this might work but in other areas I do n't know effective this would be , that you |
| 23 | That worked , temporarily at least , with the replacement of the poll tax , but in other areas it failed . |
| 24 | Ironically , the government really has been true to its policy of noninterference in the ‘ free market ’ where women 's opportunities are concerned , though in other areas it has often recognised the paradox that non-interventionist policies require intervention to make them work . |
| 25 | In other areas it must be stacked away in sheds or classrooms to avoid the attention of vandals . |
| 26 | While third party analysis in the context of international organisations gives this distinction some validity , in other areas it is less significant , as it is difficult to assert that a State is completely foreign to the effects of an agreement to which it is not a party . |
| 27 | In the Western area , half are needed for a quorum ; in other areas it is a third . |
| 28 | In other towns he 'd left way before the question mark , his Coke still fizzing at the top of the glass . |
| 29 | I 'm not commenting still not commenting on local issues , but I mean I quite see that acceptable to Mid Sussex and I 'm not doubting the recommendation but erm we 've actually sixty three thousand right sixty three thousand square metres and the other councils took the attitude that we would be nowhere near achieving structure plan and I find myself absolutely clearly what happened in other comebacks they were only going to produce three , two thirds or three quarters of your |
| 30 | A motion went before the police conference saying that if Mr Clarke persisted in his plans to treat police like those in other professions they must press for officers to be treated as employees ‘ with all the trade union rights associated with such a change in status . ’ |