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

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1 Presumably each side would want to state its position about the quality/condition of the sample and the evidence would presumably be about other samples said to be of various qualities or conditions .
2 It can be about other universities .
3 Just as you know you must be in certain lecture halls for certain regular lectures , so you need to know where you should be for other forms of study .
4 We knew that the districts under study were fairly advanced in the adoption of the care programme approach , and we wanted to find out how representative they might be of other authorities , so we studied the mental health chapters of community care plans to supplement our information .
5 One is that that registered disabled employees and we will be bringing forward further proposals on initiatives to you at the next meeting , and I hope that if you agree , that will be amongst other things with the issue of non-registered disabled employees , and the other consideration in looking at movements in targets and so on , is inevitably the whole job market situation and the opportunities for achieving that .
6 At least she could be near other people , even if she dare n't get close .
7 To be like other people : gardening at the weekend , scent of freshly-mown grass , children playing on the lawn ; wife in a cotton dress , long-legged , her smile sharing with him their private memories , future secured .
8 And when we do return , it shall not be like other travellers , without being able to give one accurate idea of anything .
9 His plight affects us like the unwilling martyrdom of a saint who wants to be like other men .
10 He had been better able to tolerate it ten years ago , but then he had drunk alcohol to be like other people and to impress , not because he liked it .
11 You ca n't expect us to be like other people .
12 I knew it was right for him — this is where he learnt to join in and be like other children .
13 " I do n't want to be like other women and cheat you .
14 The model remains the great house , not the small one , and great houses still try to be like other great houses .
15 But a certain failure , distressing to themselves , to be like other people , caused them to sink back , with so much else that drifted or was washed up , into the mud moorings of the great tide-way .
16 At the last moment , when the barred window was already darkened , and the echoes from the outer ward grown scattered and few , Harry suffered an agony of fear that after all this would be like other nights , that Isambard would come with his taunting smile and his small , shrewd ironies that stabbed like knives ; but instead came young Thomas Blount , true to his word , with his tilted nose and his provocative swagger , and flung open the door of the room with a flourish .
17 This Pro-hib-ition , or whatever they call it , is comin' , you mark my words , or the Tally boys would n't be into other ‘ arrangements ’ , as they say , and lookin' to buy cellars and hidey-holes and places behind walls , if ye follow me .
18 But Making Out highlights how important it is for women to have a job and be with other women workers — often in very crummy circumstances , but actually being very resilient with a lot of humour and girl talk .
19 There is nothing to suggest that a link with the County Hospital was ever contemplated ; the proposed collaboration was evidently to be with other poor law institutions only , and the initial approach was made in fact to the North Evington Infirmary in Leicester .
20 It was good for Anna to be with other children , yet to have Christine there too .
21 ‘ I want to be with other people , Dulé .
22 She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house .
23 It was all a plot to distort what she said , a plot between her husband and brother to take her daughter away from her , and her daughter had never got into any trouble while she was with her , and that she ought to be with other girls of her own age and with her own mother .
24 I should save the trip until the weekend , when we can all go , besides , she 'll be bored with all your old historical studies , she 'll want to be with other people of her own age , other Americans , perhaps — I mean , there are plenty of them about the place , goodness knows , and that shirt should really go in the wash straight away . ’
25 The opportunity to be with other Patois speakers and to both hear and use Patois is obviously critical " ( p.105 ) .
26 It 's nice to be with other people to fight the same frustrations .
27 But now he sort of seems to be with other contracts .
28 But it would be stretching the meaning of citizenship to regard these rights — however desirable they may be from other points of view — as forming part of an enlarged ‘ citizenship ’ .
29 The statements can be from other children in the class or they might be standard scientific explanations .
30 Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities .
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