Example sentences of "[be] [prep] another " in BNC.

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1 Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year .
2 Du n no , oh he 's , he 's what , he 's been for another job interview and the bloke
3 Still , some things are worth another look — the bizarre and burlesque nature of saxman Lee Thompson 's two solo spots emphasises hidden depths , as does Mike Barson 's adept way with a Motown backliner rhythm .
4 But , in true South African style , it also owns large stakes in other subsidiaries outside mining , which are worth another 9 billion rand .
5 I decide that these two are worth another .
6 Scientists have identified and studied 1.4 million animal species and estimate that there are between another ten and 30 million species in existence , many of these insects and invertebrates .
7 There are about another forty things that you can get , you know , for this particular er , binder .
8 She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter :
9 They are there , they are colossal , they are of another age ; and nobody knows how they came there .
10 Beyond the page-turner are the real semi-literate books which are of another kind entirely .
11 Djinn are of another dimension but can take possession of all living things .
12 Sir Thomas was quite willing to try , even though ‘ four gentlemen , two of whom are of another communion ’ , had declined to sign the petition .
13 They 're like another hair .
14 Or if you 're with another body that 's agreed er seventy five er eightieths or whatever
15 Looking at what Micky 's like and everything , when I thought before what it would be like and what the situation actually is , I think basically you 're in another world , you know what I mean ?
16 No , well but er it , it , it 's it just strikes me as being a very , very immature when you 're in another person 's house
17 Like , you can tell people who are , like , geniuses , you can almost tell to look at them , they 're on another planet .
18 er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room .
19 ‘ Tell him we 're on another planet . ’
20 ‘ He thinks we 're on another planet . ’
21 Second year you 're on another assignment anyway so it does n't make no repeat .
22 Excuse me , we 're on another subject , but I will put you in the clear
23 There they are with another twelfth for you .
24 Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted .
25 At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months .
26 The Government buildings along the Embankment drop away behind us , and here I am in another world , another life .
27 Ours went , I think , to 2 , 5 and 7 ; the other floors might have been in another building , or another town .
28 I did point out that you were supposed to have been in another place at the time … ’
29 Supposed to have been in another place ’ — what are you suggesting ? ’ he demanded .
30 To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived .
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