Example sentences of "[vb past] to other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the consequences of the difficult situation in schools and the low pay was that many teachers left the profession , even to work in the informal labour sector , and some moved to other countries . |
| 2 | Most of the readers , of course , moved to other papers . |
| 3 | The maggots had done their work in those sockets and moved to other pastures . |
| 4 | Some managers found it ‘ painful ’ to relinquish their traditional directive management style and moved to other parts of the company . |
| 5 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 6 | The effects of oil appeared to halt the decline in the 1980s , and it is a principal question for this book whether recovery is being , or can be , generated by the growth of services ( such as financial services ) provided to other countries ( see below ) . |
| 7 | Middle class feminists also objected to this increasing ‘ officialism , police interference and espionage ’ , just as they objected to other aspects of state intervention in the working class family and to protective legislation for women workers . |
| 8 | However , the report is also concerned with the balance between science and technology , noting the relative emphasis on the first in the UK compared to other countries ( Robbins 1963 , Table 40 ) and suggesting ways of upgrading the latter . |
| 9 | How is Actively Seeking Work operating in West Belfast compared to other areas ? |
| 10 | Conversely , is body size less important in male Weddells compared to other species because they defend underwater territories where success depends on manoeuvrability and because females are widely dispersed ? |
| 11 | There is one other distinguishing feature of researching the RUC compared to other police studies . |
| 12 | It had not been used since 1978 , but became necessary because of the extent of the financial needs of the former Soviet republics , added to other world financial problems . |
| 13 | She was n't so sure about her safety when it came to other things . |
| 14 | When it came to other people , particularly men , she preferred to be in control . |
| 15 | Although the movements in all three are classically based , they would look out of place in older classical ballets or danced to other music . |
| 16 | He remembers what happened to other people through all periods of recorded time — through what he has read and been taught . |
| 17 | With a sexual history spanning more than twenty years and including fifty or sixty different partners , he regarded VD as something that happened to other people , and was somewhat surprised to develop a mild urethral discharge five weeks after first sleeping with his new girl-friend , Angela , who was younger than him and relatively sexually inexperienced . |
| 18 | Death was something that only happened to other people — except there was the ragged hole that the shadow-voices had opened up in her and Zulei was tearing at it and there was death behind . |
| 19 | It still happened to other people and all . |
| 20 | He needed no telling twice , but alas the episode was fatal to his position at United Racecourses and he thereupon turned to other activities . |
| 21 | So he turned to other forms of theatre , directing operas , writing and staging revues and musicals , to which he brought new ideas and methods that were widely admired . |
| 22 | Among those who turned to other occupations were Roman Catholic career policemen whose families had been associated with the RUC and its predecessor , the RIC , for two and three generations . |
| 23 | Nobody cared to enlighten her , and after an embarrassed silence the conversation turned to other matters . |
| 24 | After his departure , we all sat silent and uneasy about what to do next until Catesby cracked a joke and the conversation turned to other matters . |
| 25 | Suppose my friend turned to other people for help , gathered all the crucial data about myself , consulted everyone who knew me , all my friends and acquaintances . |
| 26 | Attention turned to other causes of disaster and among these identified the quality of masters and officers who were required to pass no test of competency except , ironically , when they were carrying slaves . |
| 27 | The paper did not cause much excitement and Rous turned to other subjects . |
| 28 | Even this century has produced stubborn opponents of the view that the library was either burnt in one of Moscow 's fires , or that the books were long ago dispersed to other libraries , or that , in reality , there never was such a library . |
| 29 | Held : An occupier of premises owed the same duty of care to a fireman attending the premises to extinguish the fire as he or she owed to other visitors under s. 2 of the OLA 1957 . |
| 30 | We can not assume that such areas were unsettled , however , since areas of woodland often belonged to other places which are better documented . |