Example sentences of "other was the " 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 The other was the knowledge , inexplicable and certain , like all knowledge in dreams , that he would find something deadly inside the last box .
4 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 .
5 The other was the offspring of doting , bourgeois parents , who should have given off the opposite kind of vibrations .
6 The other was the Tory Grandees . ’
7 One was the work of Abdulnabi al-Hatash and his Majbari assistant in consultation with the leaders of their dependent groups ; the other was the work of the shaikhs of three of the five Zuwaya sections , who had consulted with Sulaiman Musbah and his brother Bil Qasim and other young men .
8 The other was the ‘ Etcetera Oath ’ in which all clergy were required to swear not to seek the overthrow of the bishops .
9 The other was the notorious Act of Uniformity , which required clergy to subscribe , amongst other things to a new prayer book which the bishops had deliberately made offensive to the Puritans .
10 The other was the ability of Louis-Napoleon to make use of his legal position and his popularity with the masses .
11 One was a Vasa Princess , descendant of the former Swedish ruling house ; the other was the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe-Langenburg .
12 The other was the search in living tissues for the carriers or agents which determined these properties , i.e. the genes responsible for producing them in successive generations .
13 The other was the huge and spectacular sweep of Beinn Dorain 's west slopes that towered above the railway line giving scale to its forbidding gradient .
14 Certainly , Coleman and no other was the route of entry into the College and into the army veterinary service .
15 There were two snags to the shoes : one was that there was no cushioning whatsoever for your feet , and the other was the dye .
16 The other was the equally simple fact that boys in public schools were chronically deprived of the normal sources of affection .
17 One was a 50-year-old woman sitting on a shooting stick who had her spleen ruptured when the bird hit her in the back ; the other was the pregnant wife of Swiss businessman Luc Argand , who was knocked off a wall at the Floors Castle estate near Kelso in the Scottish Borders .
18 Pastels , watercolours and charcoals by Arthur Dove — whose significant other was the painter Helen Torr ( she 's in the Kraushaar show , by the way ) — are on view right now at Terry Dintenfass .
19 But their need for each other was the basis of Rich 's affection for Philip and the source of the older man 's power over the boy who would gratefully take his teacher 's name and put it up in lights half way around the world .
20 The other was the rule developed in the seventeenth century , whereby claims on a bill of exchange are treated as separate from those on the underlying transaction .
21 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 .
22 On the other was the abbey of St Martial and the castle of the Viscount ; this was called the citadel , the castrum .
23 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 .
24 One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter .
25 The other was the face of a man with black hair and dark , deep eyes — Black Michael .
26 On one side was the fast-running river , on the other was the dark hillside .
27 The other was the more relaxed model of the New Economic Policy , which was based upon a mixed economy and more democratic norms .
28 The other was the publication of a paper by John Schwarz and Mike Green of Queen Mary College , London , that showed that string theory might be able to explain the existence of particles that have a built-in left-handedness , like some of the particles that we observe .
29 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 .
30 They will both claim that they were unfairly dismissed because the other was the culprit but that is not the issue .
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