Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [prep] other [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perturbations to Mercury 's orbit due to other planets can be ignored because these are nearly independent of the GR-induced precession . |
| 2 | I want you to send them in to me , and here 's where er it becomes a little bit different from other competitions , I want you to send them in to me on a Christmas card please . |
| 3 | And it 's a little bit different from other flowers . |
| 4 | ‘ What makes chenille different from other carpets is that it 's the product of two distinct processes , the formation of the chenille fur , and the weaving of that fur , which is the weft , into a carpet . ’ |
| 5 | wardens and whatever , we do n't take the double yellow lines half seriously enough , erm and I think parking generally is , is something we 're very bad at and I 'm an occasional sinner in this respect too , but it , it did strike me the other day , erm paying a fifteen pound fine for parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday afternoon but I had n't noticed a sign that said I should n't , erm paying that fifteen pound fine in other words not having paid the six pound instant fine , I remember thinking that , really there 's , there was no way of talking back , and I had in fact attempted an explanation as to why I 'd done it , and explained the reasons why I thought this really was very overlookable on the side of the law , erm I do n't suppose they paid much attention to it , I do n't imagine giving it a moment 's thought at all . |
| 6 | Rational planning was to be achieved by unifying health services , which were at that time split between local authorities , the boards of governors of teaching hospitals , a regional and local administration responsible for other hospitals and the executive councils who administered the contracts for general practitioners ( see Figure 1.1 ) . |
| 7 | To this annual cost a multiplier appropriate to other forms of continuing future expense should be applied . |
| 8 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 9 | If the financial press states the dollar appreciated against other currencies then exporters or non-US residents due dollars will receive more in their own domestic currency for subsequent dollar receipts . |
| 10 | Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual . |
| 11 | It provides the glare reduction , radiation protection and anti-static lead available with other types of screens — plus the ability to give a degree of privacy to the user . |
| 12 | It provides the glare reduction , radiation protection and anti-static lead available with other types of screens — plus the ability to give a degree of privacy to the user . |
| 13 | At a higher level there was a string Patty cut up a , but the extension of this string over the errorful portion lowered the score of the string relative to other interpretations . |
| 14 | ( 1982 , 1986 ) , in an extremely thorough investigation of the relative positions of young workers in contrasting local labour markets , define a number of different recruitment strategies in which qualifications vary in significance , are used in different ways and are almost invariably of secondary importance relative to other factors . |
| 15 | to cause or knowingly to permit any matter to enter a stream , so as to tend ( either directly or in combination with other matter which is caused or permitted to enter the stream ) to impede the flow of the stream in a way that would lead to a substantial aggravation of pollution due to other causes ; |
| 16 | She had timed her arrival for half an hour after the party was due to commence , calculating that this would find the host and hostess busy with other guests , leaving her free to mingle and , with any luck , to slip away early . |
| 17 | We saw in the cemetery a pile of about 60–70 corpses , two days accumulation ( not reckoning the private burials ) , waiting to be tumbled into a pit , and also a pit full of other corpses . |
| 18 | It is highly unlikely that research will do more than elaborate and refine matters upon which one may reasonably speculate from experience , from theories of behaviour generally , and from knowledge available from other areas , such as child abuse , or particular to ageing . |
| 19 | The generators have told the Government they can build stations to come on stream in the early 2000s which will be price competitive with other fuels without subsidies . |
| 20 | This left the store manager free for other activities . |
| 21 | Well the first question is , is foreign policy different from other areas of policy making ? |
| 22 | What makes T-G grammar different from other systems of grammatical analysis is that it is explicitly generative and its rules are ordered in a definite sequence . |
| 23 | They adopt different types of strategies but , as one might suspect , size would require a strategy distinct from other factors . |
| 24 | The absence of even the controlled liberalization evident in other sectors of the economy appears to reflect RENFE 's strategic position . |
| 25 | That said , in its work to bring CICS over to AIX , Data Logic has provided the capability for CICS/6000 to be migrated to other platforms , meaning that , at least in theory , IBM could make the the environment available for other vendors ' machines , following the example set last week by Hewlett-Packard Co 's announcement — see page three . |
| 26 | Instead , large rhomboids occupy two of the rectangles lying adjacent to the central square — in a manner reminiscent of other mosaics from Colchester ( pls. 11 and 12b ) . |
| 27 | These novel ideas of working with the patient 's family as well as the patient , and seeing the patient in the context of the family , area transferable to other disorders and places . |
| 28 | This meditation works by recalling the isolated moments of the Passion story familiar in other meditations and in the liturgy — the agony in the garden , the scourging , the crowning with thorns , the Crucifixion itself — but using the resources of rhetoric to embody a sense of the joyful reality behind the story which such meditation is designed to enable . |
| 29 | However , in practice , if a Type I1 system were operating , the effect would be that Health Authorities would find very large parts of their budgets being compulsorily removed to pay for a much higher consumption of acute ( mainly elective surgery ) health care , with a consequential diminution of money available for other services . |
| 30 | In practice , if a pure Type II system were operating , the effect would be that health authorities would find very large parts of their budgets being compulsorily removed to pay for a much higher consumption of acute ( mainly elective surgery ) health care , with a consequential diminution of money available for other services , especially the so-called priority services . |