Example sentences of "different [noun] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colouring was done by hand , following pattern plates coloured by the artist , so that different copies of the same work , perhaps done several years apart in a slow-selling book , may differ considerably among themselves . |
| 2 | The number of fully established senses is presumably finite at any one time ( though it may differ for different members of the language community , and at different times for the same speaker ) . |
| 3 | Some owners have observed that two helpings of exactly the same cat food , given at different times on the same day , are treated differently — the first being eaten , the second rejected . |
| 4 | This comes clearly into focus with a realisation that the differences in recall at different times by the same person are to be understood through this creativity process . |
| 5 | ‘ That could mean having children of vastly different ages in the same class , ’ he says . |
| 6 | Scrunching is a simple and effective technique for adding volume to fine hair , giving you a different look at the same time . |
| 7 | Whether two different surfaces of the same area have the same radiation signature was generalised to the point where mathematicians asked if drums of the same perimeter and area , but different shape , had different sounds : could one hear the shape of a drum ? |
| 8 | When a speaker S who speaks a particular variety V1 of a language L moves to an area where the local language is , in terms of speakers ' own assessments , a different variety of the same language L — in other words , a different dialect of L — say , V2 , it is usual for that individual 's speech to acquire some of the phonological and grammatical characteristics of V2 . |
| 9 | Similarly , where in different strata of the same excavation or in separate sites discontinuities in the styles of artefacts occur , these indicate that different manufacturing communities are involved . |
| 10 | Evidently , different dictionaries can provide quite different definitions for the same word . |
| 11 | If different strains of Lolium perenne produce different phenotypes from the same clone of white clover , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that different species of grass are even more likely to exert different selective pressures within populations of white clover . |
| 12 | By writing down their key words , taken from headings within the chapter , you can have in front of you parallel but different patterns of the same subject . |
| 13 | All religions , according to Gandhi , are different roads to the same goal and it is his contention that there will always be a variety of religions corresponding to different human temperaments and environments . |
| 14 | As we have repeatedly noted , however , politics and religion for Israel at the time were inextricably associated — were , in fact , essentially different manifestations of the same thing . |
| 15 | One of the reasons for the slow advance in understanding syphilis and gonorrhoea was the belief that the two conditions were simply different manifestations of the same disease . |
| 16 | Barrett was the first to suggest that these fibrotic conditions were inter-related and probably different manifestations of the same disorder . |
| 17 | There are some scary production photos showing Burroughs , Cronenberg and leading actor Peter Weller staring , bespectacled and unblinking , into the camera , as though they were three different generations of the same person . |
| 18 | This comes from the study by Goldthorpe , Llewellyn and Payne ( 1980 , pp. 152–6 ) on patterns of social mobility for men , as measured by a comparison of the occupational status of different generations of the same family . |
| 19 | Recognise a large number of different Fonts on the same page ; |
| 20 | But its flexibility depends upon the levels of aggregation adopted and the willingness to provide different views of the same information . |
| 21 | Lawrence Durrell sustains in his own way what he calls his ‘ challenge to the serial form of the modern novel ’ : in The Alexandria Quartet , he presents successively three different views of the same set of events , creating a novel ‘ not travelling from a to b but standing above time ’ ( Durrell 1957 and 1983 : 198 ) . |
| 22 | As they jockey for position , firms often adopt quite different strategies within the same industry . |
| 23 | Assignment , on the other hand , requires a more explicit focus on the particular property assigned ; what is assigned may be a complex property ( like fairly acceptable ) , or even a co-ordination ; but to expect a single linguistic faculty to make two separate assignments of properties to the same entity in the same phrase would be unreasonable ; it would be analogous to expecting a physical eye to focus on two different objects at the same time . |
| 24 | When customers of one branch deposit cheques from customers of a different branch of the same bank , the clearing house is not involved . |
| 25 | A man brandishing a sword 100 feet away , preferably on the far side of a river , is a very different experience to the same man brandishing the same sword just 10 feet away . |
| 26 | The reliability of a test is measured by correlation between the test scores , obtained at two different times , between different forms of the same test or between samples of questions in different parts of the same test . |
| 27 | Intracommodity spreads involve different contracts of the same future , for example selling the December 1989 future and buying the March 1990 future in the FT-SE 100 index on LIFFE . |
| 28 | Such behaviour results from the importance of " league tables " in attracting further primary eurobond business and " relationships " with issuers , the existence of " joint demand " for different products from the same firm — and possibly also joint costs in the production of different services . |
| 29 | So , the network can simultaneously represent a single reader 's conception of nine different texts , or nine readers ' different reactions to the same text . |
| 30 | Two sources offering different accounts of the same issue or event , provide the history teacher with another very useful device . |