Example sentences of "others [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accusations from others of being nosey , bossy , overmanaging . |
| 2 | Some were lost to follow up from clinic before fulfilling the entry criteria for longstanding disease ; others despite being eligible , were not entered . |
| 3 | If the first furrow was straight , example and actual guidance helped to persuade the ploughman who followed after him to draw the other furrows in the stetch in like manner : if the first furrow was bent nothing could prevent the others from being less than perfect also . |
| 4 | Briefly , we would prescribe certain categories of development which were prohibitable without compensation , while allowing others to be prohibited subject to full or partial compensation . |
| 5 | Even then it appears to have caused something of a religious furore , being declared by some to be a fake and by others to be the true Shroud . |
| 6 | Mainly , of course , he bought books and arranged for others to be copied , but whenever any of the magnates fell foul of him , he would confiscate his library . |
| 7 | Having read about the way in which Adam and Eve were beguiled out of the garden , Christians settle for being innocent as doves and leave others to be wise as serpents . |
| 8 | Rights themselves are grounds for holding others to be duty bound to protect or promote certain interests of the right-holder . |
| 9 | It is relevant for the explanation of the character of de facto authorities because every de facto authority either claims or is acknowledged by others to be a legitimate authority . |
| 10 | And there are yet others to be invented . |
| 11 | To this day Girls who worked in the 1920s would not consider others to be proper Tillers unless they had done the inevitable Paris stint . |
| 12 | ‘ The Old Halls , Farm Houses and Cottages of the North of England have long been admired for their elegant pecularity reg=peculiarity of design , and , aided by accidental additions and delapidations , and by combinations of the richest woods , and back-grounds of rocks and mountains , are , in their kind , finer objects for study than any others to be met with in the island . |
| 13 | When Alexander reached the age of sixty he was persuaded by many friends , afraid that his most valuable secrets would die with him , to set up a training school to teach others to be teachers of his technique . |
| 14 | Teachers have that special task of sharing God 's name with children , of teaching others to be festive , to celebrate their love for one another , and the mystery of God 's love for us always . |
| 15 | He 's so musical that I 'm sure his ability to get others to be creative must have been considerable . |
| 16 | Nevertheless I am certain that society has the right to prevent homosexuals encouraging others to be homosexual . ' |
| 17 | Pearson , of Tadcaster , admitted three arson charges and asked for eight others to be considered . |
| 18 | There may be little or no hope of finding those particular items , but there are many others to be collected , some as yet unrecorded . |
| 19 | We all expect others to be like ourselves . |
| 20 | The limitations of this role are considerable , and such people can hardly expect others to be receptive , forthcoming and responsive towards them . |
| 21 | Richardson , 22 , of Clevedon , Avon , admitted 33 fraud charges and asked for 48 others to be considered by Gloucester Crown Court . |
| 22 | The current emphasis upon ‘ empowerment ’ , and the belief that ‘ the more self-empowered a person becomes , the more able he or she will be to enable others to be the same ’ ( Fenton and Hughes 1989 : 19 ) , is effecting a shift in approach generally , and in my own personal practice , from a passive model of students . |
| 23 | It is said by some to be more tiring physically than a paid job , by others to be less tiring : some women say it takes a greater emotional toll , others that the drain is less than other work . |
| 24 | Its symbolism may or may not be universal for all mankind , or for all within one culture , but enough dream material is common for others to be interested and gripped by a person who recounts his dreams . |
| 25 | If you do not listen your responses may be ‘ off beam ’ and you may appear to others to be rather stupid . |
| 26 | For example , the retention of selective schools characterised by traditional pedagogy and an elitist view of the curriculum means that some schools are less likely than others to be able to meet the expectations of a project founded on essentially comprehensive principles . |
| 27 | It entails moreover the risk that if the list is long voting will tend to be little more than a popularity poll , with most votes heavily concentrated on the best-known candidates , leaving the election of others to be decided by relatively few votes , cast by electors probably unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole . |
| 28 | But how were the others to be persuaded ? |
| 29 | He quotes the words of Francis Bacon in the sixteenth century : " Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested . " |
| 30 | Each member of the relay race needs to entice others to be on the team . |