Example sentences of "vied [prep] [adj] other " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Questions were raised in the House of Commons about a group of local hippies arrested early in 1967 , and local MPs vied with each other to be in the vanguard of efforts to control the ‘ army of secret drug takers in the area … ( who need to be ) brought back from the brink of madness ’ ( Newcastle Evening Chronicle : 27 February 1967 ) . |
| 2 | BOHUNT and Mill Chase pupils vied with each other in a closely-fought end-of-term contest to win a place in the final of a quiz sponsored by Hampshire Racial Equality Council and the county education authority . |
| 3 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
| 4 | The companies vied with each other to find new settings for the basic story-lines and messages that they had to put over . |
| 5 | While the sibling competition was an inevitable part of growing-up , far less bearable was the growing parental rivalry , conscious or not , as Frances and Johnnie vied with each other to win the love of their children . |
| 6 | They frequently inhabited the same Soho haunt but at Muriel 's , where they vied with each other in buying bottles of champagne , they often occupied different ends of the room . |
| 7 | He reminds the visitor that so famed were Swiss soldiers for their heroism that monarchs vied with each other to hire them , and that the Swiss guards of Louis XVI died to a man in his defence when the mob stormed the Royal Palace in August 1792 . |
| 8 | The nearest town was sufficiently far north to be a pie place , and nearly all the shops — the butchers , the bakers , the grocers , the solitary delicatessen — vied with each other in the quantity and variety of their pies . |
| 9 | Cities vied with each other to build more beautiful towers . |
| 10 | The presence of tattoo shops , ‘ topless ’ discothèques which offered dancing and music almost twenty-four hours a day were a reminder that Copenhagen was an active and important port , yet the overall effect was charming and romantic as flowers spilled out of window-boxes and the cafés and restaurants vied with each other to attract custom by the quality of their food and their individual décor . |
| 11 | The traditional political " families " still vied with each other in pursuance of their particular objectives ; but the old clans of Catholics , monarchists and Falangists were now joined by a new breed of apolitical technocrat and a new kind of Falangist . |
| 12 | They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details . |