Example sentences of "another [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They plotted it together and they were nice to one another during the whole of that time and when it was all over and the lawyers were serving papers , their parting was quite unbearable . |
| 2 | At work-outs , people who often have no occasion to speak to one another during the day — hourly workers , salaried managers and union leaders — are summoned to the corporate equivalent of a New England town meeting . |
| 3 | For they would have had either to vote for all the candidates on one list ( implying a commitment they rejected ) or they would have had to switch from one list to another during the voting . |
| 4 | One watch succeeded another through the day , though how the rabbits judged the passing of the time is something that civilized human beings have lost the power to feel . |
| 5 | Walks on the Howardian Hills include a 4-mile one around Byland Abbey , one around the White Horse at Kilburn and another through the forest of Yearsley . |
| 6 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the Government will remain firm against raising the present European Community budget ceiling and that they will continue to encourage EC financing arrangements based on supply-side economics , not on the massive transfers of money between one country and another through the Commission ? |
| 7 | As the countries of the world , irrespective of bloc , appear to become more and more bound up with one another through the extension of transnational practices , some of which are directly identifiable as practices of global capitalism and some of which not , the fact of the global system becomes more and more obvious to ever more people , though the nature of the global system might still appear extremely difficult to grasp . |
| 8 | My bet is that it was started by one cave dweller stalking another through the gravel of Peking or Java , his stone club at the ready . |
| 9 | One as a member of the Gipsy Working Party and another as the spokesman for property . |
| 10 | One kind , Bathygobius , has the habit of leaping from one pool to another as the tide retreats . |
| 11 | In pointing into the flower-vase and saying , ‘ Here ’ , I am obviously distinguishing one place from another as the place where the thimble is . |
| 12 | I said that in pointing into the flower-vase and saying , ‘ Here ’ , I am obviously distinguishing one place from another as the place where the thimble is , and that if places could n't be distinguished — by pointing , or naming , or describing , or giving co-ordinates or in some other way — there would be no possibility of this use of ‘ Here ’ . |
| 13 | The accommodation consisted of semi-converted stables , and it will be known by those acquainted with the residence of horses that the door of a stable is so constructed that there are two gaps , one between the door and the floor and another between the door and the ceiling , and through these gaps blew drafts of freezing cold . |
| 14 | By means of such conduct , we inform one another about the legitimacy of our presence , the innocence of our motives and our readiness to grant access or co-operation if the situation arises . |
| 15 | Publication of an internal inquiry was also suppressed by the government ; one board member of the Atomic Energy Authority , which ran Windscale , had warned that it would ‘ inevitably provide ammunition for all those who had doubts of one kind or another about the development and the future of nuclear power ’ . |
| 16 | One story will be about almshouses , another about the vicar , another about inns . |
| 17 | Juxtaposed to each detail from the Passion sequence is another about the life of Christ which sets the Passion in the context of the scheme of salvation . |
| 18 | ‘ Most South Africans are tired of confrontation and wish to speak to one another about the road of prosperity and justice for all , ’ he said in a nationally broadcast statement . |
| 19 | One was about a new initiative to help people dying of AIDS ; another about the closure of a London theatre ; a third about a motorway pile-up on the M25 . |
| 20 | At the head of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate is the senior chief inspector , with seven chief inspectors under him or her , each of whom is responsible for co-ordinating the work of staff and divisional inspectors in several areas of education ( one chief inspector is responsible for pre-school and primary education , educational disadvantage and multiracial education , for example ; and another for the curriculum 5–16 , local advisory services , LEA inspections and independent schools ) . |
| 21 | It was held that the defendant was guilty , since in raising their hands the members of the audience were engaging in competitive bidding — namely in competing against one another for the chance of getting in first by raising a hand before anyone else or for the chance of attracting the defendant 's favour in selecting the lucky buyer . |
| 22 | Quite apart from the injustice of adopting one policy for the public sector and another for the private , such tactics have often proved counterproductive and created more battles and delays , ultimately making sites more difficult to sell . |
| 23 | The gaps between were filled with people looking for seats , with others exchanging seats , and with some who had simply observed friends in other parts of the room and were on their way from one table to another for the purpose of making conversation . |
| 24 | In grammar , putting a noun or noun equivalent beside another for the purpose of a more complete explanation or description , eg in The news that he had won surprised Tom , a young lad of eight the clause that he had won is in apposition to the noun news and the phrase a young lad of eight is in apposition to the noun Tom . |
| 25 | Any part of the cost of a development which is attributable to plant and machinery will generally qualify for a 25% annual allowance if it is used for the purchaser 's trade or leased by the purchaser to another for the purpose of the other 's trade . |
| 26 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |
| 27 | These include tagsets for special application areas such as alignment and linkage of text segments to form hypertexts ; a wide range of other ‘ analytic ’ elements and attributes ; a tagset for detailed manuscript transcription and another for the recording of an ‘ electronic variorum ’ modelled on the traditional critical apparatus ; tagsets for the detailed encoding of names and dates ; abstractions such as networks , graphs or trees ; mathematical formulae and tables etc . |
| 28 | In view of all this , one might characterize second language pedagogy as a set of activities designed to bring about the gradual shift of reliance from one systemic resource to another for the achievement of indexical purposes . |
| 29 | The term ‘ precept ’ means a demand by one body upon another for the cost of services administered by the body making the demand in the area of the body required to meet the demand . |
| 30 | Many acts of trespass , breaches of contract , violations of copyright , and so on , regrettable as some of them may be on other grounds , have no implications one way or another for the stability of the government and the law . |