Example sentences of "[adv] different [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The common experience of Christianity , of similar concepts of family , together with the more recent experience of urbanisation and industrialisation , all mark Europe out as fundamentally different from the Arab world or from India .
2 Khieu Samphan refused to sign the communiqué , which he claimed was fundamentally different from the Thai document approved by the four groups in May .
3 However , what may look like a good deal now , as the UK emerges from its adjustment period of higher interest rates and recession , could look rather different in a few years ' time .
4 What seems plain maltreatment at the time could look rather different in the quiet surroundings of a tribunal or courtroom months or years later .
5 This is rather different from the Western dialectic habit in which one party will put forward his idea and back it up with supporting information .
6 The fact that they are regularly represented with special spelling forms makes them seem rather different from the above examples .
7 Auburee , however , plays to the full here the apt role of a garrulous and clumsy , but essentially thoughtless and harmless , old woman to entrap the wife ; the sexual connotations of her interest in and comments on the bed are rather different from the explicit insolence of the monk of the Shipman 's Tale .
8 This is not entirely surprising because the steps involved are rather different from the familiar ones used in other spreadsheet tasks .
9 The perception of shape and pattern in apparently disorderly ( but dynamic and mobile ) things is usually mentioned with reference to visual perception , and it is commented on in the sciences and the arts alike : it is prominent , for example , in the notebooks of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins ( J. Milroy , 1977 ) , in his careful descriptions of cloud formations , waterfalls and other dynamic phenomena , and much of the poet 's imagery depends on a kind of ‘ observer 's paradox ’ ( rather different from the familiar Labov version ) , through which a dynamic phenomenon can nonetheless appear to have stable shapes and patterns within it and , conversely , a static phenomenon may appear to contain mobility .
10 Again the two models of suburbanization by addition and redevelopment are useful but the pattern of their application was rather different from the inter-war years .
11 That the orientation is rather different from the intellectual influences on the normativist style is fairly clear .
12 The features of sign language interpreting so far described , and the possible registers available , suggest something rather different from the linguistic models of Seleskovitch ( 1978 ) and others .
13 Sometimes in the latter case it seems that the assimilation is rather different from the word-boundary examples ; for example , if in a syllable-final consonant cluster a nasal consonant precedes a plosive or a fricative in the same morpheme , the place of articulation of the nasal is always determined by the place of articulation of the other consonant ; thus : ‘ bump ’ ; ‘ tenth ’ ; ‘ hunt ’ ; ‘ bank ’ .
14 In those circumstances , according to Mr Altman of New York University , the calculation about what capital structure to adopt became rather different from the conventional sort .
15 The situation is altogether different in a continuous-process industry .
16 The Chunkies and double-knits are a little different to the standard gauge , but they resemble each other .
17 do accept , though , that personal service workers such as shop assistants , check-out and wrap operators , and receptionists are little different to the working class .
18 Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa .
19 The provincial groups with papers in two or three towns were little different from the other independents .
20 The tournament in the early twelfth century was a mock battle little different from the real thing : the highly organized jousting which we usually associate with such an event was only beginning to develop .
21 This means that to use the node structure from the trie , few routes would be able to be re-used , resulting in a dawg which is little different from the original trie ( figure 3.6 ) .
22 Although the distribution of patients who were stone free for > or nine months and 57% appreciably different in the two tablet groups .
23 Personally , I regret that the effect of these changes would be to make professional cricket in England less different from the first-class game everywhere else in the world .
24 Their style of life was not much different from the ordinary Zuwaya : they had perhaps recently acquired better housing , but the new villas were not segregated ; food was no more generous , nor more delicate in a rich man 's house ; schooling and medical treatment were uniform .
25 The result is a presidency with an image of blandness much different from the glitzy campaign Mr Bush waged to win the White House from Michael Dukakis who , it is worth remarking , is governor of the speedy state of Massachusetts .
26 In fact the staff student ratios of the early 1980s are not much different from the pre-expansion figures , though they are generally not so good as in Britain or the US .
27 In practice , to date , pursuers ' agents by and large have tended to specify their case with as much detail as previously though there have been efforts , to date challenged successfully , to give a briefer outline not much different from the initial letter of claim .
28 There 's no point in us getting bogged down , every parish is so different to every other parish , they 've got to look at local needs , that 's not our priority .
29 The scene before me was so different to the familiar landscape of southern England , domesticated by near hedgerows , roads , copses and buildings .
30 It is interesting to notice that Lamia and Circe are represented as physically mature women , so different to the pubescent bodies favoured by Onslow Ford .
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