Example sentences of "[conj] [art] other was [art] " in BNC.

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1 Either one or the other was a place where he went and looked and he , he was going back in October .
2 If a person assaults another who turns out to be a policeman , he can he convicted of assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty even though he had no knowledge that the other was a policeman , or even the means of such knowledge .
3 One offer he describes as ‘ managing quite a lot of money ’ and the other was a partnership in a substantial firm of solicitors .
4 One had the reputation of being always drunk , and the other was a Scotsman , which was not necessarily a different thing .
5 One was a tall , large-featured and forbidding man , dressed in black velvet , and the other was a masked lady , obviously in the last stages of bearing a child .
6 One was that education had an increasingly vocational function especially at post-elementary level and the other was a vague notion that ‘ education is a good thing and therefore ought to be supported ’ .
7 One was an old woman , who was nearly always drunk , and the other was a busy local doctor , who was not paid enough to be very interested in Oliver 's survival .
8 One had a recurrence of an old back injury involving a disc which bulged from between the vertebrae from time to time , causing intense pain , and the other was a young secretary with period pains .
9 One was a young man from the shop-floor who 'd got a metal splinter in his eye and the other was a secretary who had caught her heel in one of the open staircases and twisted her ankle .
10 When we were at the flat er I 'm not quite sure , I think the one was a Tuesday and the other was a Sunday , when there was a bus used to go down to Tenby
11 One was a a a business man , the other was er , trade union official , and the other was a housewife , which seemed to me to be badly representative
12 There were two snags to the shoes : one was that there was no cushioning whatsoever for your feet , and the other was the dye .
13 Two periods were especially prosperous for courtiers and officials : one was the minority of Edward VI and the other was the reign of James I , when the Scottish monarch bid lavishly for the favour of his new subjects .
14 There were two projects on his mind : one was the little prose book which had been " clogging his system " , to employ another of his own phrases , since the mid-Forties , and the other was the new play which had been postponed effectively since 1939 .
15 One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter .
16 One of these was a 2 cm diameter tubulovillous adenoma exhibiting severe dysplasia , and the other was an 8 cm diameter villous adenoma that had undergone focal malignant change .
17 Certainly , Coleman and no other was the route of entry into the College and into the army veterinary service .
18 They will both claim that they were unfairly dismissed because the other was the culprit but that is not the issue .
19 Both had argued that three of the dogs were in fact American Staffordshire terriers while the other was a stray .
20 The emergence of nation states , initially in Western Europe and the US , depended upon two main conditions : one was the development of modern centralized government , undertaken by the absolute monarchs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , while the other was the rise of nationalism , embodying the idea of political self-determination for a social group which inhabits a definite territory , conceives itself as having a distinct ethnic and cultural character , and has embarked upon a struggle to establish popular sovereignty in place of dynastic rule .
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