Example sentences of "other [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No reference was made by Press , or , so far at least , by any of our other statesmen of science , to the fact the new Reagan budget consigns 70 per cent of all federal R&D funds to national security .
2 But he and the five or six other aficionados of control line flying , a hobby which peaked in the 1950s and 60s and then declined when the more sophisticated radio control models appear on the scene , are hooked into a pure form of aeronautical nostalgia .
3 What other chains of industries are there leading to the Heinz baked bean factory ?
4 Again it should be emphasized that the incentives need not be based upon financial performance but might be linked to other proxies of effort ; productivity measures and the like .
5 At the SEC , Mr Breeden argues that there is sufficient law to tackle insider-trading abuses in debt securities and other conflicts of interest if they occur .
6 In between promise and entry lie not only the stories of Isaac and Jacob , but the long story of Joseph and the other sons of Jacob , a period of 430 years spent in Egypt by their descendants , most of it in slave labour , a dramatic escape from the Pharaoh and his army , and forty years of wandering or living in the wilderness of the Sinai peninsula .
7 Many other sons of Ayrshire prospered in Australia and contributed to the country 's development but only a few can be mentioned .
8 Theuderic I seems to have kept himself apart from the other sons of Clovis , though this could , in part , be explained by his greater age .
9 Other hatchings of interest were two straw-necked ibis , three scarlet ibis , three rhea and three emu .
10 Before his association with William Smith and other Lollards of Leicester he had acted as a preacher and for a time as a hermit , with varied reception but some support from the Augustinian canons at Leicester Abbey .
11 So far as the variability in the attainment of learners is concerned , it has to be said that the situation is not unique : strategies of other disciplines of teaching can be successfully adopted .
12 Very , very little really , erm we had contact with other Authorities of course , in the course , in erm er particularly in connection with evacuation , erm evacuation took up erm quite a lot of staff and , and time at that er particularly initially because erm Suffolk was in a peculiar position or at least the East Suffolk was , erm at the beginning of the war of course erm East Suffolk was an evacuation , er was erm a reception area
13 They would hang around all day , bored stiff , while the menfolk sported , would provide the statutory feminine presence in the evenings — be brought on , as it were , as the dancing girls — and as a reward would be permitted to waste money on the sheepskin rugs , the ( fairly ) local pottery and all the other objects of tourism that Mrs Molesworth purveyed .
14 There are two other objects of note ; one is a Pietà of c.1380 from the Peter Parler workshops and the other is the magnificent monument to the Lord Chancellor Count Mitrowitz , made in 1714–16 .
15 Yet the transmission of precious substances in the form of jewellery or other objects of display has at all times and most notably during the last five millennia served the same purpose the world over , that of signalling and enhancing status .
16 In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain .
17 There were no other contracts of significance during the year in which a director of the company had a material interest .
18 Section 7 imposes similar controls on clauses which seek to exclude the equivalent implied terms in other contracts of supply such as hire , work and materials and barter .
19 A party to a contract " deals as a consumer " in relation to another party if — ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act [ ie other contracts of supply ] the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption .
20 ‘ ( a ) the purpose or principal purpose of the secondary action was directly to prevent or disrupt the supply during the dispute of goods or services between an employer who is a party to the dispute and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action relates ; and ( b ) the secondary action ( together with any corresponding action relating to other contracts of employment with the same employer ) was likely to achieve that purpose . ’
21 It should be pointed out , however , that other definitions of strain will be met with in the literature , most notably , is often called the true strain , while an expression arising from the kinetic theory of elasticity has the form
22 Third , the Acropolis of Athens — a feature which , like some other masterpieces of nature or art , is so familiar that it is hard to see it with fresh eyes — was an inevitable centre for the rynoikism or concentration of Attica from a plurality of villages into a mia polis , ‘ one city ’ .
23 This does not explain , however , why many countries think it necessary to give the Constitution a higher status in law than other rules of law .
24 For where there is a legislature subject to no constitutional limitations and competent by its enactment to deprive all other rules of law emanating from other sources of their status as law , it is part of the rule of recognition in such a system that enactment by that legislature is the supreme criterion of validity .
25 British political scientists , for their part , dissolve the distinction between law and other rules of behaviour because they are not much interested in law : for them , the constitution is practice .
26 They demanded that a second shaft be sunk to afford protection against the aftermath of explosions — the main cause of death in a methane explosion being not the explosion itself , but poisoning by carbon monoxide or suffocation by choke damp ( carbon dioxide ) or other products of combustion .
27 One possibility that 's emerged from that research , is that mercury vapour from gold burning may be combining with the ash and the other products of combustion the forest , to produce an even more toxic ingredient in a lethal brew .
28 Britain favours buying information from other investigations of reactor safety , notably the United States programme , run by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission .
29 Sir Thomas 's chamber , deserted except for a bed , table , and other sticks of furniture was , surprisingly , open .
30 Carbon 14 is a radioactive isotope of carbon that is absorbed by all living things ; the proportion of carbon 14 to other isotopes of carbon remains constant , but when something dies , the carbon 14 in it decays at a known rate , while the other isotopes stay the same .
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