Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to [adj] other " in BNC.

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1 Identical powers may be given to any other named individual including a social worker although it is likely that police support will be most commonly enlisted .
2 An editor can then check one representative word from each small class as to its correct meaning in context , and this meaning can then be assigned to all other words in this class .
3 One thesis I am arguing for claims that authoritative reasons are pre-emptive : the fact that an authority requires performance of an action is a reason for its performance which is not to be added to all other relevant reasons when assessing what to do , but should exclude and take the place of some of them .
4 In the current absence of radiometric ages for the surface of Mars , Venus and Mercury , it is of considerable interest to see whether the graphs in Figure 8.1 can be applied to these other planets , possibly with modifications , and thus provide a basis for absolute age determination .
5 In its manifesto , the Ulster Unionist Party said : ‘ We can not accept as stable any system of governance which could not equally be applied to any other regional entity within the UK . ’
6 Until a few years ago it had been clear that the courts would be prepared in such situations to exhibit a marked degree of ‘ tenderness ’ towards wives in such cases , greater tenderness in fact than would be applied to any other third party surety .
7 The same technique can be applied to any other topic , but always use as many textbooks as you can .
8 Reference may be made to one other feature of the draft .
9 The Iraqis moved armour into positions south of Basrah to block the more obvious of these steps and the Iranians evidently decided that Kuwait could be attended to some other time .
10 But he insisted that the Heathrow trial ‘ will be entirely self-contained at Heathrow and will not be connected to any other computer system . ’
11 Any new vein discovered , but left unwrought for the space of six months after notice was given by the estate to the captain or purser of the mine , could be licenced to any other person to work .
12 This learning will be related to two other areas of the student 's life so that transferability of the process skills involved in the module can be realised and accentuated .
13 They can also be related to many other points about the way the services are organized and administered .
14 It is desirable therefore to devise an indexing system , by which words can be related to some other data structure that is more easily processed and stored .
15 So if there are different histories , they must nevertheless be related to those other histories from which they differ but with which they , articulate in a structure of relative effectivity .
16 Any individual cell or group of cells can be related to any other cell , just as in your hand created version , yet with a speed and flexibility that can , at first , be hard to believe .
17 So , you know , all erm , Toyota Corollas or something are produced in Derby and those cars made in Derby will not only satiate the U K demand , but they 'll also be exported to all other countries in the world , including Japan itself .
18 A similar facility will be offered to any other Bundesliga side involved in the event .
19 Yet the primate hand , particularly in the case of man , who has retained ( or , more accurately , re-acquired ) a generalized , unspecialized hand , can be put to many other uses than merely grasping branches .
20 Then , a few days later , after the pigeons have had time to rest , they may be taken to some other point , perhaps one hundred miles south this time , and they will repeat the trick .
21 Any piece of computer equipment which has to be fitted to some other equipment , such as a replacement " card " ( printed circuit board containing integrated circuits ) which has to be a certain shape , or have a certain type of connector , in order to fit into a computer will also fall into the first part of the exception .
22 An application to restore an action to the list for hearing after being adjourned generally ( " sine die " is synonymous ) is usually made by letter of which a copy should be sent to all other parties .
23 The same argument could be extended to any other region of the electromagnetic spectrum ( although a creature able to see using , say , X-rays is vanishingly improbable in terms of basic biology ) .
24 The consultation at present is on teachers and the Department for Education 's view is , that those regulations should not be extended to teachers , but the support of the Director of Education , County Fire Officer and County Treasurer we have erm , suggested that any change to the local government superannuation scheme should be extended to those other groups , because quite frankly you ca n't complicate different arrangements if you simple take the score .
25 What we will end up with , no matter who wins , is a Minister for Sport who sits some distance from the corridors of power , who will likely be attached to some other ministry like Agriculture and Fisheries ( file ‘ Sport ’ under ‘ Codswallop ’ ) and who will spend a parliamentary career powerless , penniless and potless .
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