Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it should mean — but it does not — that decisions which do not bear on or affect other Member States should remain with the nation state or below . |
| 2 | Faced with the challenge of being original in this way , some student writers believe that they should copy or adapt other people 's work because it is bound to be of better quality than their own . |
| 3 | It may take away or qualify other rights of the consumer which are quite independent of the guarantee . |
| 4 | Tell them it can upset or offend other residents . |
| 5 | There are so many ways in which different government agencies can veto or neutralize other agencies ' initiatives that a new agency , with more precisely defined policies , is seen as offering , perhaps in desperation , a new way to ‘ get something done ’ . |
| 6 | Sufferers from drug addiction are perpetually in trouble with the Law because their drugs of choice may be illegal and because they may have to steal or commit other offences in order to obtain their drugs or the money to buy them . |
| 7 | position power ; to what extent does the leader have the power to reward or punish other members of the organisation ? |
| 8 | In each case the team 's community psychiatric nurse or social worker was designated as key worker and would continue to monitor every patient , as well as to obtain or increase other services when they thought necessary . |
| 9 | Signs , know your traffic signs , right , signals , give signal , give signals if they would help or warn other road users watch out for the signals of other drivers and motor cyclists or pedal cyclists and take necessary action from them . |
| 10 | This forces you to scrutinize your own behaviour rather than blame other people . |
| 11 | Presidents , on the other hand , can rarely issue plausible , self-executing commands ; for the most part they must persuade rather than order other political actors to do what they want them to do . |
| 12 | I long to paint and paint other things . |
| 13 | On rare occasions , these chimpanzees have been seen to kill and eat other animals such as young baboons and bushbuck . |
| 14 | Does it suit you to have a specific initial commitment , culminating in a natural break when you can leave and pursue other interests ? |
| 15 | Mapplethorpe has begun to collect and photograph other Roman sculpture — notably an Apollo , photographed in close-up profile — lips parted — against a black background . |
| 16 | In the last edition of Link I reported that the economic outlook was against us , but this would also create opportunities for us to acquire and merge other businesses with our own . |
| 17 | Lydia swirled the water in the pan into a whirlpool and slithered in the egg , which proceeded to foam and display other signs of rebellion . |
| 18 | If our ideological preconceptions incline us to an exclusive interest in standard English , we will produce what is in effect a history of literary English ; this will exclude and neglect other historical patterns that are capable of enriching our description of the history of spoken English and , ultimately , of adding to our understanding of the general phenomenon of linguistic change . |
| 19 | This involves the incoming group taking the time and trouble to go and see other local leaders to talk through their plans . |
| 20 | It outgrew its premises , and in 1982 the plaintiffs decided to acquire and convert other premises ( ‘ the bakery ’ ) to become the new premises of the centre . |
| 21 | She is able to inspire and motivate other students to undertake community welfare tasks and she shows qualities of leadership as well as the ability to work as one of a team , close quotes . |
| 22 | Do you try to get to know and understand other people ? |
| 23 | Apart from printing the sort of story that incensed John Small , newspapers have also helped to foster and perpetuate other myths about foxes . |
| 24 | So the groups that owned metal might perhaps conquer and enslave other groups . |
| 25 | This gave me confidence to go ahead and develop other things . |
| 26 | Write it out to read it back , not for publishers to petrify and clog other people 's heads with stone thoughts . |
| 27 | But what had promised to be a happy greeting turned to a strained departure — tonight Adisa was taken onto hospital although she 's since been allowed to leave and join other refugees in Northampton . |
| 28 | She was the departmental secretary , and she would bring papers for him to sign and take other papers back with her . |
| 29 | But U.S. attack submarines , designed to hunt and destroy other subs and surface ships , seldom move on the surface of the ocean . |
| 30 | This was one of the changes initially seen under the Republic : the capture of Jamaica in 1655 opened up a new road which encouraged rulers in the second half of the century to go forward and force other European powers to give up their lands on almost the whole of the North American coastline . |