Example sentences of "other was [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That the four lead artists got on so well with each other was a distinct advantage in coping with the pressurised working schedules they were expected to maintain over the next year .
2 The other was a still life , part of a series painted during a prolonged stay in Paris .
3 One was a tall , large-featured and forbidding man , dressed in black velvet , and the other was a masked lady , obviously in the last stages of bearing a child .
4 The other was a female face , topped by a little white cap .
5 I mean the other was a nice story , but , I think this year 's is better
6 The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment .
7 One was that education had an increasingly vocational function especially at post-elementary level and the other was a vague notion that ‘ education is a good thing and therefore ought to be supported ’ .
8 The other was a tall man , seven foot high , called Yon Yonson .
9 His companions were both in their forties , one of them greying at the temples , a squat , powerfully built man ; the other was a tall gangling individual with deep set eyes which remained fixed on Hitch the whole time .
10 The other was a small , dumpy woman , the sort you 'd cheerfully accept an apple pie from .
11 The other was a great plan for improved relations : sometimes going no further than better intelligence on a crucial country , sometimes an all-embracing scheme for encouraging moderate successors to Khomeini and saving the country from the Soviet camp .
12 On one side of him was the complex inhabited thicket of the hedge in which flocks of bullfinches competed for fodder and invisibly singing warblers were stationed at thirty-yard intervals ; on the other was a great sloping reach of field , the earth a reddish copper colour and patterned like a Japanese garden with the swirls and furrows left by machinery .
13 One seemed to be humans dressed in black , the other was a motley group of exters .
14 The other was a well-ordered institutional infrastructure based on such pillars as the London Stock Exchange , Lloyd 's of London and the Bank of England .
15 One had a recurrence of an old back injury involving a disc which bulged from between the vertebrae from time to time , causing intense pain , and the other was a young secretary with period pains .
16 The other was a stout man with a dark moustache .
17 The other was a white Transit van .
18 The other was a middle-aged woman , also Italian , who seemed to be her friend .
19 One was an old woman , who was nearly always drunk , and the other was a busy local doctor , who was not paid enough to be very interested in Oliver 's survival .
20 The other was a fat collection of feminist essays , mostly American , published in 1977 : Herself Herself Involve , LaMotte 's Strategies of Evasion .
21 On the town side of it , downhill , was an establishment known as Dairy Farm , and on the other was a large Victorian church and rambling graveyard .
22 One was Mergenthaler 's Linotype , which made it possible to produce a newspaper quickly and in large volume ; the other was a social innovation , modern advertising , invented by the first true newspaper publishers , Adolph Ochs of the New York Times , Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World , and William Randolph Hearst .
23 The other was a Sikh , very small and slim .
24 One was a dashing , debonair young man ; the other was a beautiful elegant girl with high cheek-bones and eyes of the purest grey .
25 In addition , two new cases of carcinoid tumours were discovered : one was a polypoid lesion of only 2 mm in diameter , the other was a histological finding as a macroscopic tumour was not evident .
26 On the other was an elderly Jewish joke , making much of the word ‘ Meshuggenah ’ , or nutcase .
27 The other was an overalled attendant of a line-marking machine , whose accuracy the pair seemed to be debating .
28 One of these was a 2 cm diameter tubulovillous adenoma exhibiting severe dysplasia , and the other was an 8 cm diameter villous adenoma that had undergone focal malignant change .
29 The other was an air-cooled weapon , of which the French Hotchkiss and the American Lewis were representative .
30 One was her grandmother 's Bible with a tasselled , leather book mark in it , the other was an American thriller from the library .
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