Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [verb] [prep] another " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be justified where : ( i ) the original factors leading to registration no longer apply ; ( ii ) the child and his family have moved to another area ( and responsibility for the case has been transferred to another authority ) ; ( iii ) the child has reached the age of 18 years or married ; or ( iv ) the child has died ( para 6.45 ) . |
| 2 | That is best illustrated by the fact that a similar case has been referred by another GP in north Devon to the same unit in Birmingham . |
| 3 | Torvale Building Products has been sold to another firm . |
| 4 | Six months on , Sue Hill has been promoted to another department where she sells advertising and loves her job . |
| 5 | If the dismissed employee has been replaced by another employee this usually means redundancy . |
| 6 | Michael Roberts has been booked for another fancied horse in Red Paddy , but the best-backed horses yesterday were Blue Orca , who is as low as 12-1 with Ladbrokes but still 16-1 with Hills , and Tafila , who was offered at 33-1 yesterday morning but by the evening was generally 16-1 . |
| 7 | The three individuals were all ‘ phoned by a sultry female voice informing them that their bid had been matched by another . |
| 8 | Throughout his trials with the Sex Pistols , Richard Branson had been engaged in another , even more delicate negotiation , one which promised , at last , to provide the antidote to the enduring unhappiness over his broken marriage . |
| 9 | One type of authoritarian rule had been followed by another , not allowing for that kind of unsettling liberalization which is so conducive to uprisings among minorities . |
| 10 | Assimilation creates something of a problem for phoneme theory ; when , for example , in ‘ good ’ becomes in the context ‘ … girl ’ ( ) or in the context ‘ … boy ’ ( ) , should we say that one phoneme has been substituted for another ? |
| 11 | Valuable insight into this question has been gained in another project entitled ‘ Styles and strategies of information handling in the sixth form ’ . |
| 12 | The playground has been built by another Hereford firm , who say it 's been quite a challenge . |
| 13 | And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another . |
| 14 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |
| 15 | An apparent suicide note found in the house on the day she died claimed the child had been fathered by another man . |
| 16 | In a confidential statement to the council 's investigating committee Mr Horn said he had suffered stress since more than half of his duties had been transferred to another education unit in 1989 . |
| 17 | Second , this war has been lost at another and even more terrible level : it is destroying our Serb feeling that our wars were just wars and that we behave honourably . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , in the course of the twentieth century , following the experience of various forms of dictatorship , some of which have developed from socialist revolutions , this distinction has been overlaid by another , between ‘ totalitarianism ’ and ‘ democracy ’ , or as it is sometimes expressed , between one-party and multi-party systems . |
| 19 | The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields . |
| 20 | He did not take long in drinking his tea but by the time he had finished it , he saw that she was no longer at the counter , her place having been taken by another girl . |
| 21 | He did not complain when he found that his sleeping place had been claimed by another player ; nor when Garvey told him to wash the mud off the wagon wheelrims , and forbad him or Izzie ever to speak a word to Gabriel . |
| 22 | His attention had been taken by another notice outside the Town Hall . |
| 23 | She was happily thinking , Serves him right , a pity there was n't a cloudburst , when across the car park , in an area where the top managers of Vasey 's normally parked their cars , she noticed that room had been made for another car . |
| 24 | ‘ We did n't know if another bomb had been planted on another platform , ’ admitted Miss Godfrey , who uses the station three times a week . |
| 25 | If a DC has been activated through another package , then abort the DC . |
| 26 | Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch . |
| 27 | The papal letter which he was carrying to the king had been superseded by another , which spoke more mildly and suggested that Anselm himself had been a mischief-maker , and that a compromise agreement could be reached with good will on both sides . |
| 28 | She had never heard that Father had been apprenticed to another business in the town of Ballylee . |
| 29 | This was attributed to four main factors : the chairperson had been promoted to another school ; the librarian/coordinator had been promoted to a complex and demanding pastoral role ; the reorganisation of secondary schools had imposed strains to which the activities of a library committee were an unwelcome addition ; and finally , the fact that the project purchases were now completed , with the books already finding their way on to the library shelves , appeared to be seen as an indication that the committee 's work had been completed . |
| 30 | They argue that the post-war period is best characterised as one involving policy change and instability , and that , since the crack-up of the consensus in the 1960s , one doctrinaire and mandated government has been replaced by another with scant regard to appeals to the middle ground of public opinion . |