Example sentences of "other [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In any other case a date must be fixed for hearing and the parties and the guardian ad litem must be given seven days ' notice .
2 Ten feet in the other direction a staircase rose directly up by the side of the end wall and she made for this .
3 One other afternoon a week her desk is occupied by a quiet , middle-aged woman bookkeeper who does the accounts .
4 Right , it 's just that we had this issue in support of other research a questionnaire and in support key divisions , sorry , key departments have lists of named individuals who can authorise questionnaires .
5 Only the other day Robson was criticising Paul Gascoigne for attempting a similar back-heeled flick during England 's B match against Yugoslavia … could be costly , might give the other side a goal , must cut out that sort of thing , and so on .
6 It is time to give the other side a chance .
7 They attack from all sides , nice neat passing — direct — create chances etc etc. they do nt give the other side a chance to breathe .
8 There are those who suppose that ‘ giving the other side a turn ’ for a few years will invigorate democracy and somehow advance the cause of moderation .
9 The other group A game tonight , Bolton nil , Brescia one , and that 's good news from Notts County 's point of view .
10 However , we have no executive committee , and we have only one other meeting a year , erm , if you , I , I would like you to suggest that if you accept this restructuring of er , the organisation , and the fact that the members will not be attending other meetings during the year , you might see fit to allow the attendance allowance on this particular sub-committee .
11 The other day a friend described another woman to me as ‘ a typical social worker , you know , all Freud and knitted lentils ’ .
12 The other day a woman rang from as far away as — ’ Ashley stopped , aware of chattering again .
13 Only the other day a leader of the student movement in Prague said that the first letter of support they had received from abroad after baptising the revolution in their blood on November 17 was from him , with the signatures of four other Soviet Academicians .
14 Anger responses can quickly degenerate into self-pity , self-indulgence or self-righteousness ; a desire to teach the other person a thing or two — even an exaggerated desire to show that I am right after all , and I told you so !
15 At the other extreme a number of specialist car producers have come to dominate the luxury end of the car market .
16 monopoly of balloting parents when they make every other affair a matter of competitive tendering ?
17 Mach stared at the other man a moment , wide-eyed , wondering , as he had so often lately , how DeVore came to know so much .
18 The two men shook hands and Scott offered the other man a seat which he accepted and a drink which he declined .
19 but you 've got to find the place there it could be at the other end a mile away could n't it ?
20 Over the other end a man was reading the Völkischer Beobachter with the aid of a dictionary .
21 From the other end a party of visitors began their walking stare along the Cages .
22 On the other hand a case lasting 2 years which went to trial where both liability and quantum were both heavily contested could easily rack up between 30 and 50 hours without too much difficulty .
23 On the one hand , individuals usually on a short-term contract with a job to do face on the other hand a bureaucracy with mixed feelings about the importance of environmental deterioration .
24 On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage .
25 But on the other hand a quarter of the total US TV audience tunes into it each week .
26 On the other hand a call can not exceed the value of the underlying share : .
27 On the other hand a Kachin will always take it for granted that anyone whom he is prepared to classify as a Jinghpaw is a kinsman of some sort .
28 On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject .
29 On the other hand a heart attack occurs when there is a sudden and severe blockage in one of the coronary arteries so that the blood supply to part of the heart is actually cut off .
30 On the other hand a refractor is more costly , and in some ways less convenient to use .
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