Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been so deeply involved with her own emotions that she had lost the imaginative sense that is necessary if you are to see other people as independent entities , locked in their private worlds . |
| 2 | California has stated that manufacturers will have to begin marketing " zero-emission " vehicles by 1998 if they are to sell other models in the state . |
| 3 | But for many people , the slide into drug use has been to escape other problems — poor living conditions , no real job prospects and broken relationships at home which all lead to feelings of hopelessness and despair . |
| 4 | They are to protect other unsecured creditors who might otherwise see what 's left swallowed up by large fees . ’ |
| 5 | Most commentators considered that the effect of the decisions would be to encourage other states to reinstate existing laws on parental notification and consent which had fallen into disuse because of previous court rulings . |
| 6 | In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted . |
| 7 | The more that marriage is based on ability ( the more likely able individuals are to marry other able individuals ) , the slower is the process of regression towards the mean . |
| 8 | If one were to include other categories of ‘ news ’ , such as ‘ Law , police and accidents ’ — a category excluded from the public affairs one — then the reader would have had access to substantial amounts of information about the outside world . |
| 9 | It was necessary therefore to originate our national network shows early in the evening if they were to reach other parts of the country before their respective peak listening hours had passed into bedtimes . |
| 10 | Having said that , the book could be useful as a guide if the student were to read other texts to fill in the gaps . |
| 11 | Our solution is to plant other asters which are mildew-resistant . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most important thing that QED will have done is to open other sufferers ' eyes to the realisation that they are very far from being alone . |
| 13 | One way of ensuring that a particular type of microcomputer is suitable , is to visit other schools , or school library services or teachers ' centres to find out whether a particular microcomputer will be suitable in the individual school . |
| 14 | The simplest way of accounting for this is to assume other , unnamed children of Adam and Eve . |
| 15 | The first option , where relevant , is to let other employees in your organization know that a vacancy exists . |
| 16 | The consequence of those legal manoeuvres is to deny other London boroughs a massive capital receipt which could have been put to good use on behalf of charge payers . |
| 17 | It may be argued that to focus on social security is to overlook other sources of income in old age . |
| 18 | So if Charles is to become king and Diana is to have other relationships , they will have to divorce . ’ |
| 19 | The aim , says the blurb , is to develop other publishing and ancestor-tracing businesses . |
| 20 | We appear to be selfish , cynical creatures ; our greatest ambition in relation to rules of behaviour is to get other people to obey them so that our own cheating is even more productive . |
| 21 | In Brooke-Rose 's view , the role of the novel as a self-consciously written , fictional , narrative genre is to remind other discourses that they too possess the same attributes of logical paradox , fictionality , and narrativity . |
| 22 | But the main purpose is to deter other people which is tantamount to an abuse of human rights . |
| 23 | If the difference is real , however , it could be that one of the effects of the project involvement was to alert other service-providers to any need for institutional care at an earlier stage than would occur for those in the control sample . |
| 24 | Councils were supposed to set up sites for industrial and domestic wastes ; the Baldonnell site was to marshal other unsuitable wastes . |
| 25 | The purpose was to encourage other spies to confess since obtaining proof of spying without compromising sources of information is almost impossible . |
| 26 | The answer was to sell other things in the same style : china , lighting , textiles , rugs and kitchenware . |
| 27 | It was common for sittings to take place in rooms contained in buildings whose primary purpose was to house other government departments . |
| 28 | The immediate impact of this event was to dissuade other prelates from publicly defending the king . |
| 29 | He accused her of blaming him for his failure to return with Oreste when , if anyone was to blame other than her sister Ellen , it was she herself . |