Example sentences of "[adv prt] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | The A G M , the last two years people have said well there 's not a great deal of point in coming along other than for a drink because er the committee 's got it all sorted out , you know , beforehand as regards who 's doing what . |
| 2 | Pro-reunification protestors dominated Leipzig 's Karl Marx Square on Monday , shouting down other groups who spoke out for an independent and socialist East Germany . |
| 3 | Self-contradiction is natural in the human make-up ; inconsistencies are not worrying in themselves , so long as they are n't planted by memoir-writers or biographers putting down other biographers . |
| 4 | Requests for assistance or consultation lead to a fairly high level of interruption and noise in the office , which may slow down other work and even make holding a telephone conversation difficult . |
| 5 | Connoisseurs of bike racing prefer breaks by more than one rider , especially when they 're in different teams , for then riders ‘ sit in ’ , not taking their working turn at the front , conserving energy and slowing the break , thus wearing down other riders in favour of a team-leader back down the road in the peloton . |
| 6 | We could also write down other things about what we have noticed which would be better expressed in words than in paint . |
| 7 | Language that belittles , that if you like pushes down other people . |
| 8 | In the 1980s a change in political attitudes affected a long-standing commitment to public-sector plan making , and different policy initiatives have sought to reduce local authority provision of housing and play down other forms of local planning . |
| 9 | The local council says the women turned down other accomodation but admits there is severe housing pressure in the Wantage area . |
| 10 | I says to him , with him breaking down other night his dinner went to dog . |
| 11 | An open policy to trade may be maintained if the nation is doing well economically , but a less successful economic position may lead to swift and much more extreme action to erect trade barriers and bring in other sanctions . |
| 12 | Accepting that politically it would be unrealistic to expect the National Curriculum to be couched in other than conventional terms , ie subjects , I questioned the absence of a rationale . |
| 13 | However , this initial , albeit restricted , study has demonstrated the usefulness of vitrinite reflectance data in other than strictly maturation-related applications . |
| 14 | He himself never used his pigments in other than a most orthodox manner . |
| 15 | They had spies out , to be sure , but so far no definite reports had come in other than that Balliol and the English army , now unfortunately reinforced by the Highland and other Scots adherents , had left Perth ten days before , cavalry and foot marching southwards by Auchterarder and the Allan Water , to cross Teith by the Ford of Keir and Forth by the Fords of Frew , presumably to avoid any opposition at the vulnerable Stirling Bridge ; which conjecture had set Alexander Ramsay worrying about Doune Castle and Mariot Randolph , not to mention her brother raising his levies thereabouts . |
| 16 | It is said to be found at depths of around 30 metres and is , therefore , unlikely to be shipped in other than very restricted numbers . |
| 17 | Similarly , Message Queue Interface should improve the efficiency with which loosely coupled systems work : travel agents , for example should be able to request flight information from one system and get straight on filling in other details without having to wait for the remote system to respond . |
| 18 | A court of the United States may order the issuance of a subpoena requiring the appearance as a witness before it , or before a person or body designated by it , of a national or resident of the United States who is in a foreign country , or requiring the production of a specified document or other thing by him , if the court finds that particular testimony or the production of the document or other thing by him is necessary in the interests of justice , and , in other than a criminal action or proceeding , if the court finds , in addition , that it is not possible to obtain his testimony in admissible form without his personal appearance or to obtain the production of the document or other thing in any other manner . |
| 19 | Though the antecedents are ancient , it was not until the 1960s that one could begin to see the beginnings of what we now call global competition in other than oil and similar natural resource-processing industries . |
| 20 | However there must be a core of supervisory functions resident in main store at all times , which can bring in other functions as required . |
| 21 | It is that we might , in other than merely a logical sense , have got yesterday but not last night . |
| 22 | The government made no effort to redeem this promise but Unionists believed that they were in a temporary phase pending the reconstruction of the upper house , and that it was therefore no business of the government to bring in other constitutional Bills before they had settled the constitution itself . |
| 23 | The crux of the rows centred around a belief that Sydney Newman , promoted from ITV into a very senior position and given virtual carte blanche to reshape the BBC 's drama output , was carrying out his task by bringing in other friends and associates from ITV in place of BBC staff who felt they could equally rise to the challenges . |
| 24 | Not only do they receive the first offers of any work that is available ( and in other than special circumstances always accept such offers ) , but also the organisations for which they work undertake a sufficient volume of business to make offers of work for many days each week and for most weeks of the year . |
| 25 | Even in the engineering companies the role of the unions seemed to have been limited to ensuring that , in other than their temporary status , temporary workers were not disadvantaged and received the same fringe benefits ( except membership of company pension schemes ) as regular workers . |
| 26 | The man had never behaved towards her in other than a friendly and decorous way ; nevertheless , she burned . |
| 27 | We sneer at the European Parliament , but it is time that we looked at Europe in other than a partisan way — ’ Ha ha , ha . |
| 28 | I agree that nobody should be forced to breathe in other people 's cigarette smoke . |
| 29 | The results might have been worse : a number of cattle lost from one side to the other , some barns and carts burned , and half a dozen women held hostage and returned in other than mint condition . |
| 30 | So , if multimedia is going to get established in other than the very long term , it is more likely to be delivered by a low cost stand-alone system such as CDTV , CD-I or even DVI , if a low cost dedicated player can be devised . |