Example sentences of "other [noun sg] [prep] the scale " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other side of the scale basically . |
| 2 | On the other side of the scale . |
| 3 | At the other end of the scale , many rural or urban homes were adapted to serve as simple beerhouses , with little internal alteration . |
| 4 | At the other end of the scale are the alongee gouges ; large heavy gouges , for removing large amounts of wood on big items such as sculptures . |
| 5 | At the other end of the scale , Plymouth Laira gained a small fleet of Class 37s which rarely ventured away from the West Country china clay empire , although a new trainload working was introduced in 1989 which would take them twice a week up to Irvine in South West Scotland . |
| 6 | I do n't think what you run makes any difference , because I 've run companies of very diverse natures and the principles that apply to British Steel at one end apply equally to a small company at the other end of the scale . |
| 7 | At the other end of the scale GM 's long-expressed desire to achieve significant sales of its US cars in Europe has finally settled down to more realistic levels . |
| 8 | At the other end of the scale a 12-year-old South African girl , Karen Muir , gave us a new 110m backstroke swimming record in 68.7secs — and Britain 's motorways were given a 70mph ‘ experimental ’ speed limit . |
| 9 | At the other end of the scale we have the estate in fee simple . |
| 10 | Of course , at the other end of the scale , there are still diehard conservatives , with a small c , who moan that the National is now ‘ just another long-distance chase ’ — much like the Scottish equivalent won by Captain Dibble at Ayr on Saturday — with all its heroic glamour gone beyond recall . |
| 11 | At the other end of the scale there are meals that will linger in the mind long after the credit card has recovered , and blowouts at top restaurants still tend to be cheaper than their London counterparts . |
| 12 | South Wales with its early potato enterprises headed the specialised markets and at the other end of the scale Speyside , Powys and Cumbria had little or no specialised farming enterprises . |
| 13 | At the other end of the scale there were no wives in Speyside who had either attended or wished to attend . |
| 14 | In contrast , however , parents told the researchers that the compulsory removal of children or — at the other end of the scale — refusal to take children into care when , in their eyes , there was a desperate need , alienated and frustrated them . |
| 15 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |
| 16 | At the other end of the scale , Labour did impressively well in some boroughs . |
| 17 | At the other end of the scale , rules would define precisely the shots that may be made for specified circumstances , confining all shots to the head and shoulders of the Member who has the floor , for example ( this solution has been adopted by the Canadian House of Commons ) . |
| 18 | At the other end of the scale , good advice in these shops is sometimes very expensive . |
| 19 | At the other end of the scale are crowfoots of fast waters , whose only leaves are bunches of slender threads which run with the current — the ‘ crow 's feet ’ . |
| 20 | A comparison of social product per head in the 1950s with that in 1986 ( in current dinars , unadjusted for regional differences in the cost of living ) shows a significant improvement for Montenegro ( from less than 60 per cent of the average to 77 per cent ) and , at the other end of the scale , for Vojvodina ( from less than the Yugoslav average to 21 per cent above it ) . |
| 21 | Some otherwise generous companies offer even senior directors no more than three months ' notice ; at the other end of the scale , notice periods of three or even five years are by no means rare . |
| 22 | At the other end of the scale they quite often roll just beneath the surface , and if the water is choppy you will not know it is happening . |
| 23 | However , at the other end of the scale , the southern provinces of Upper Nile and Bahr al-Ghazal have very low enrolment rates , even at primary level . |
| 24 | At the other end of the scale , there are industries where excessive cold is used such as refrigeration in the fishing industry , and cold storage rooms in the catering business . |
| 25 | At the other end of the scale , promoting a father from being manager of a middle-ranking enterprise to a top-ranking enterprise is also unlikely to alter the son 's chances much , because in all probability he already attends a selective school . |
| 26 | At the other end of the scale are viruses which contain more than 200 genes . |
| 27 | At the other end of the scale , Dall holds the record for the most powerful single-lens microscopes . |
| 28 | At the other end of the scale there are the particle feeders , static animals such as burrowing marine worms and other bottom-dwelling aquatic creatures that simply sit and sift the plentiful detritus that sinks to the bed of seas and lakes . |
| 29 | At the other end of the scale one finds the hard pressed teacher or headmaster , besieged by parents , yet limited to a certain class size by government regulation ( or even by the number of spaces in his register page ) . |
| 30 | At the other end of the scale there are those schools , and they are numerous , where children enjoy the benefit of an adequate weatherproof classroom , something to sit and something to write on . |