Example sentences of "at other [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at other times they seem like sledgehammers to crack nuts . |
| 2 | At other times they claimed that Kylie had negotiated a one million dollar contract to return to Neighbours — a story which Kylie described as wildly untrue . |
| 3 | At other times they would collect along the river bank and the younger Martyn was to write many years later of Crocus vernus , ‘ I remember , when a boy , to have seen it in considerable quantity in Battersea meadow , near the mill ’ . |
| 4 | Take in every little movement they make , watch how they immediately gulp down some items of food , when at other times they will suck and blow it out several times before consuming it . |
| 5 | At other times they lack the skills of assertion ( see Assertiveness on page 8 ) and sometimes the gestation period is too long and the moment has passed . |
| 6 | Sometimes , as in the case of a foreign or inter-state trip , the youngster may just not be old enough or experienced enough to cope , but at other times they may not be showing enough sense of responsibility to be safely granted privileges . |
| 7 | At other times they may exist in competition , each endeavouring to gain influence in a third area . |
| 8 | At other times they serve to enrich each other through the mutual benefit of cross-fertilisation . |
| 9 | At other times they did not have transport and so did not travel . |
| 10 | This occurs because the waves are not quite in step : sometimes they reinforce each other and at other times they cancel each other out — in the same way that 1 + ( -1 ) = 0 . |
| 11 | At other times they blasted missile crews , radio communications centres and ammunition dumps with Milan anti-tank missiles or plastic explosives . |
| 12 | Some religious groups have uplifted people 's ethical conduct , but at other times they have allowed brutality to others in the name of the religion . |
| 13 | Sometimes the excess products could be released back onto the market , but at other times they were sold abroad at a loss or simply destroyed . |
| 14 | Renaissance drawings of machines , and even some of those from the eighteenth century , sometimes display an ignorance of how the device must really have worked ; and at other times they are fudged , so that important features can not be seen because the artist did not understand them . |
| 15 | At other times they might have drawn the evening out . |
| 16 | At other times they are so vague that almost anything can be interpreted as falling within the guidelines ( rather like the very broad articles of association of a company ) . |
| 17 | Military commanders sometimes push a salient forward but at other times they advance on a broad front . |
| 18 | At other times they have to be ‘ seeded ’ , either by particles of dust or by small crystals dropped in from elsewhere . |
| 19 | Women sometimes are virtuous , while at other times they only appear so in order to lure men to destruction . |
| 20 | At other times they retreat into the blue distance . |
| 21 | But , as I say , doctors are slow to start using that so that , whereas sometimes they are overenthusiastic and use too many medicines , at other times they are too slow and too reluctant to start to use new innovations . |
| 22 | As it is occasionally covered by the sea this sand is not compact so that at times we could walk fairly comfortably , but at other times we sank in unexpectedly , which broke up our rhythm and made us tired and frustrated . |
| 23 | At other times we will focus only on the instruments , and here you can make effects that are almost abstract . |
| 24 | At other times we can cope with dangerous situations only with the guidance we receive from God 's word , our chart and compass for daily living . |
| 25 | At other times we search for someone who can then do the searching for us . |
| 26 | An additional factor is that in speaking English we vary in how rhythmically we speak : sometimes we speak very rhythmically ( this is typical of some styles of public speaking ) while at other times we speak arhythmically ( that is , without rhythm ) — for example , when we are hesitant or nervous . |
| 27 | At other times we will be called out to the scene . |
| 28 | At other times he revelled in the distraction of his children . |
| 29 | At other times he craved solitude and took himself off to Balmoral to fish , paint and stalk deer . |
| 30 | Sometimes he implies that they can be , but at other times he speaks as though they are always ‘ observed to exist in several combinations ’ . |