Example sentences of "[adj] from that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have to learn a notion of proof different from that to which I am accustomed . |
| 2 | But doubt has been cast on this useful generalization by observations of a transition process in boundary layers , different from that to be described in Section 18.2 and much more like that usually observed in free flows . |
| 3 | For instance , speakers are well able to judge that the contrast between 24a and b is the same as that between 25a and b , but different from that between 26a and b , and 27a and b : |
| 4 | All this makes the Japanese system decidedly different from that with which it is often carelessly linked : continental Europe . |
| 5 | The condition of the Northern catholic — nationalist minority has been very different from that of the majority in the South . |
| 6 | Now London in the late fifties was very different from that of the ‘ seething sixties ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , today 's JA Ashton is likely to be very different from that of our original concept when far fewer people had bank accounts , when the great majority of customers were male and when credit cards had barely hit the scene . ’ |
| 8 | Voters who read a stridently left- or right-wing paper are at least exercising some choice , even if their own partisanship is different from that of their paper . |
| 9 | Because Marx never did write this anthropological work , it is futile to speculate too much on how his position would have been different from that of Engels . |
| 10 | Because this is so , I do not believe that their position is as different from that of nineteenth-century anthropologists and Marx and Engels as they would like us to believe , if we were to take their rejection of ‘ evolutionism ’ at its face value . |
| 11 | Their lives were therefore presumably very much easier and different from that of Bushmen . |
| 12 | It tends to run with a period different from that of a solar day ! |
| 13 | The two modes fight it out in Schlesinger 's Billy Liar , where the hero escapes from the constraints of life in an undertaking business by fantasizing himself as variously a soldier , Winston Churchill , a gunman mowing down his family or an aristocrat living with obliging parents whose behaviour is strikingly different from that of the real screeching proletarians . |
| 14 | The Mulcahy approach could hardly be more different from that of Stanley Kalms , the creator and chairman of the Dixons empire . |
| 15 | The danger of contamination from radioactive wastes persisting into ages which exist only as figures beyond the range of human imaginations belongs to an order different from that of oil spills and coal slurries . |
| 16 | The identity of a man is basically no different from that of any other animal . |
| 17 | On this view , the generality of the word ‘ man ’ is no different from that of ‘ John ’ which , after all , can itself be used of a number of things . |
| 18 | As a result of the Married Women 's Property Act 1882 , and later Acts , the capacity of a married woman to own property , to make contracts , and to incur liability for torts was different from that of a man . |
| 19 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 20 | The situation of these workers was very little different from that of the members of the middle classes and , indeed , many of them , in income terms alone , were , from time to time , effectively within that social category . |
| 21 | a state of mind so different from that of ordinary human beings that the reasonable man would term it abnormal . |
| 22 | This means the type of information they can give is often different from that of other artefacts . |
| 23 | The evidence offered by hoards is somewhat different from that of individual finds . |
| 24 | The structure of the house building industry in Great Britain is quite different from that of most of rest of the ‘ western ’ world . |
| 25 | The 1979 Arkleton lecturer pointed out that many upland farmers in Britain tend to have ‘ their own ‘ viability concept ’ , which may be different from that of the theoretical agricultural economist and sociologist ’ . |
| 26 | They tend to have their own ‘ viability concept ’ which may be different from that of the theoretical agricultural economist and sociologist . |
| 27 | Certainly they talk of other gods , but the nature of these gods is so different from that of the god whom Jews and Moslems are to follow that we might be tempted to deny that these others are gods at all . |
| 28 | Although , generally , women lag behind men in educational achievement , at higher levels the proportion of female students is not very different from that of male , with the result that a small number of highly educated women enter the labour market each year . |
| 29 | This view sees the experience of the Third world as being little different from that of the industrialised countries . |
| 30 | The household formation pattern of women over 80 is quite different from that of all elderly persons . |