Example sentences of "of the other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hinde House was a fairly typical school in that there had been a recognition of the need to relate to the ‘ World of Work ’ , ‘ Employers ’ , ‘ Further and Higher Education ’ , ‘ Preparation for Adult Life ’ and many of the other banner headings which at different times were placed before us by non-school organisations . |
| 2 | The sinuous tail of a dragon , also in gold and jewel colours , wreathed itself like a border round the edge of the other tile . |
| 3 | Try to make her understand how other people feel by putting herself in their shoes ; by that , I do n't mean hitting her over the head yourself , but explaining to her the pain of the other child when she hit him . |
| 4 | It was as easy as anything , and for a long time I , I felt well at least I can get in that way and then I thought oh maybe I should , you know doing , doing anything about it , but now I always go out of the other door |
| 5 | Robyn blushed deep cerise and glared , making sure her look was as unhungry as she could make it , and dived for the handle of the other door . |
| 6 | Moira Russell exclaimed when , not pausing in her stride , Leith banged in through her office door and kept going in the direction of the other door in the room . |
| 7 | Reporters have not been allowed access to Chi Ma Wan or any of the other detention centres . |
| 8 | They were then shifted to an instrumental discrimination in which presentation of the clicker signalled that choice of one lever would be reinforced ( with food ) and presentation of the tone signalled that choice of the other lever would be reinforced ( with food plus shock ) . |
| 9 | The corps de ballet neglect the turn-out and step forwards sur les pointes , raising the working knee and resting the toe on the calf of the other leg , before moving forwards . |
| 10 | Pointing the foot of the other leg , raise it approximately 24ins ( 61 cm ) . |
| 11 | Bend the other leg , placing the foot as close as possible to the inner thigh of the other leg . |
| 12 | Point the foot of the other leg and raise the leg approximately 24ins ( 61 cm ) . |
| 13 | Those in favour of Councillor Tony , please show , one , two , three , four , five , those in favour of the other gentleman , please show , one , two , three , four , good grief |
| 14 | Older boys , who had a spell on the Isle of Man or in one of the other internment camps , had first to be interviewed by Captain Davidson . |
| 15 | Many of the other budget measures left oil companies confused about the overall impact on their revenues at a time when oil industry funding is under pressure from sluggish international prices . |
| 16 | I refer to Julia Kristeva 's somewhat obscure remarks about ‘ the role that the pervert , with his invincible belief in the maternal phallus and his obstinate refusal to recognise the existence of the other sex , has been able to play in anti-semitism and the totalitarian movements that embrace it , . |
| 17 | Much of the mutual enjoyment of the other sex is lost if the only end in view , for at least one of the two , is to get the other into bed at the first opportunity . |
| 18 | A transvestite is somebody who wears the clothes of the other sex — in our society it is considered bizarre for men to wear wimmin 's clothing , though it is now common for wimmin to wear men 's clothing . |
| 19 | Close association with a member of the other sex , as in marriage , allows a wider range of response and action than either partner could have on their own . |
| 20 | Envy of the other sex and envy of babies go hand in hand . |
| 21 | a person of one sex is treated less favourably , on the ground of sex , than a person of the other sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 22 | Indirect sex discrimination occurs when an unjustifiable requirement or condition is applied equally to both sexes , but has a disproportionately adverse effect on one sex because the proportion of one sex which can comply with it is much smaller than the proportion of the other sex which can comply with it . |
| 23 | ‘ … This form of selection depends , not on a struggle for existence in relation to other organic beings or to external conditions , but on a struggle between the individuals of one sex , generally the males , for the possession of the other sex . |
| 24 | The fact that the song and the receptor change together in the hybrids suggests that there is some control mechanism which prevents the two from becoming uncoupled from each other ; such a mechanism would have the effect of making it more likely that , whenever a male or female cricket changed its song or song-preference during evolution , some other individual of the other sex will have made the complementary change . |
| 25 | He was surprised that the doctor should seek to draw him into such boldness with one who was of the other sex , and the daughter of a friend . |
| 26 | Consequently , it is prohibited to announce separate recruitment and to set up separate lists of successful candidates according to sex as well as to hire from the list of successful candidates of one sex without taking into consideration the higher marks of successful candidates of the other sex . |
| 27 | So anyway off we goes course when we come back for half an hour at ten o'clock well out of the other machine were n't it ? |
| 28 | The second was that by shadowing the mark outside the ERM , sterling was denied the protection afforded by the combined reserves of the other member countries . |
| 29 | Douglas Hurd remarked at one summit that ‘ some of the other member states have less faith in their own institutions than we do ’ . |
| 30 | Each member of each pair contains genes which are different from those of the other member , since the genes have been " handed on " from different parents in the first place . |