Example sentences of "other was " in BNC.

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1 The other was the Irish Trades Union Congress .
2 The other was the sense of injustice experienced by the subordinate classes at seeing the scheme dropped .
3 And the other was mine , I said .
4 Tried using popgun after fiasco of toy cannon , he wrote , but that was too violent where other was too weak .
5 One was a dashing , debonair young man ; the other was a beautiful elegant girl with high cheek-bones and eyes of the purest grey .
6 The other was in the article by Alexandra McAdam Clark , in which she mentioned the number of courts available in France .
7 One was Max , the other was a bitch which had never been socialised .
8 Forced to face up to her own fears and failed expectations , it was as if Belinda had to deal with two babies : one was the theoretical idea of a baby with Down 's syndrome , the other was Sophie herself .
9 The other was a £310,000 provision for the diminution in market value of an undisclosed investment .
10 The recent picture shows the ceremony at the crash site , the other was taken secretly on the day of the disaster .
11 They looked at each other quizzically , trying to decide how much emotion the other was prepared to invest in this .
12 Clearly they each believed there was a real issue , and that the other was intelligent enough to pursue it .
13 One offer he describes as ‘ managing quite a lot of money ’ and the other was a partnership in a substantial firm of solicitors .
14 The other was trying to find a mechanism to sell more. , Another example of the ability to see the wood from the trees can be drawn from the time he was asked to take charge of Esso 's marine operations .
15 ‘ There were two of them , ’ she said , ‘ both men , one of them was white , the other was probably a Pakistani .
16 One shoe floated empty , the other was still on a foot .
17 The other was a photograph of Enoch Powell and the message ‘ Enoch says keep the Farm white . ’
18 Mr Zhao was one prominent victim of the upheavals of 1989 ; the other was Mr Deng 's reputation .
19 The other was that although most Morgan companies prospered , so they should have : they were monopolies , or implicit cartels thanks to the cross-shareholdings .
20 They 'd each think the other was taking him home .
21 The other was from the Vice President in charge of Overseas ' Operations , thanking him for his personal contribution to the expansion of European Component Operations .
22 The other was the knowledge , inexplicable and certain , like all knowledge in dreams , that he would find something deadly inside the last box .
23 The other was a much shorter way , a footpath stretching diagonally across a very large ploughed field , this path making the third side of a triangle .
24 One was the outrage caused by the Anatomy Act , which was briefly described in chapter one ; the other was the onset of cholera , beginning in 1832 , the year in which the hated Act came into force .
25 The other was the offspring of doting , bourgeois parents , who should have given off the opposite kind of vibrations .
26 The other was a stout man with a dark moustache .
27 It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse .
28 The other was the Tory Grandees . ’
29 Again , when the Irishman Scotus Eriugena , one of the two finest minds of the ninth century ( the other was Gottschalk , close student of Augustine 's works and initiator of the controversy on predestination ) , translated from Greek into Latin the Heavenly Hierarchy of Pseudo-Denis ( c .860 ) , he might at first sight have been engaged in something purely academic .
30 The other was a great plan for improved relations : sometimes going no further than better intelligence on a crucial country , sometimes an all-embracing scheme for encouraging moderate successors to Khomeini and saving the country from the Soviet camp .
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