Example sentences of "[noun sg] from that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can only distinguish your library card from that of a book by the difference in the thickness of one line . |
| 2 | You can only distinguish your library card from that of a book by a difference in the thickness of one line . |
| 3 | In the course of defending Creole against Shane 's objections , Chris actually begins to use Creole , distancing his own talk from that of Shane and putting into practice his own belief that " if you want them to know your culture you have to chat it " . |
| 4 | The bare infinitive is used to produce a very different effect from that of the to infinitive in exclamations , as can be seen in ( 3 ) above and in : ( 30 ) I say anything disrespectful of Dr Keen ? |
| 5 | Although a managing director will usually be an employee the courts sensibly view him in a different light from that of a manual worker . |
| 6 | Her irresponsible Flora , who sees herself as ‘ the soul of kindness ’ , and indeed is adored by people who see her in a very different light from that in which she sees herself , is ( or would be , if she were allowed ) catastrophic in her influence on other lives . |
| 7 | Are there significant sub-plots which cast some of the characters in the drama in a very different light from that in which they are officially cast ? |
| 8 | Omar Hassan al-Bashir was " keen to distance the new version of sharia law from that of Nemery " , who as President had introduced Islamic law to Sudan in 1983 . |
| 9 | Further increase of the voltage from that of ( e ) leads to a reversion to ordered behaviour . |
| 10 | He first of all distinguishes human suffering from that of animals but then defines the latter as ‘ the unpleasant emotional response to more than minimal pain and distress ’ ( 1989 : 97 ) . |
| 11 | We make an indirect observation by first making a direct observation of a sign , and then making an inference from that to what we believe the sign signifies . |
| 12 | This flow , argues Houston , evokes a different moment from that of the secularity of cinema , suggesting instead , |
| 13 | And of course British capitalism was by this stage a very different capitalism from that of the inter-war years : a social formation in which the organised working class , as organised in the trade unions , was at least consulted and listened to by governments as a matter of course , and in which the major political forces took for granted the obligation to minimise unemployment and to preserve and expand the welfare state . |
| 14 | But the facts are complicated here by the shift from that to this to show empathy , and from this to that to show emotional distance ( Lyons ( 1977a : 677 ) calls this empathetic deixis ; see Fillmore , 1971b : 227 and R. Lakoff 1974 for the intricacies of English usage ) . |
| 15 | But the edge of the disc moving towards the Earth will result in a slightly different shift from that of the disc moving away from the Earth . |
| 16 | In cases where the standardisation sample is drawn from a different population from that of the child being tested ( for example , the sample is North American children and the child to be tested is British ; the sample comprises children from a different age group from that of the child being tested ) , it is inadvisable to make judgements based on comparisons with the standardisation data . |
| 17 | The Zoology here , from what I have already seen , is likely to be of a most interesting description , totally different in its nature from that of Sydney , but probably approaching nearer in its character to the productions found beyond the Liverpool range , or what is more properly called the interior of New South Wales . ’ |
| 18 | He also purported to apply the conventional collateral fact doctrine but reached a different conclusion from that of his brethren . |
| 19 | However , it is better to distinguish the issue of objective truth from that of rationality . |
| 20 | In cases where the standardisation sample is drawn from a different population from that of the child being tested ( for example , the sample is North American children and the child to be tested is British ; the sample comprises children from a different age group from that of the child being tested ) , it is inadvisable to make judgements based on comparisons with the standardisation data . |
| 21 | In the current period industrial relations is conducted in a very different climate from that of much of the post-war era . |
| 22 | The fact that the female work-force in general had a different age profile from that of the male , and that many ( though by no means all ) women left work in their mid-twenties , was yet another reason for the low pay and status of " women 's work " . |
| 23 | It is a different picture from that for employment , in that from 1966 to 1973 manufacturing output continued to grow even while employment fell . |
| 24 | Often the boss will have a different expectation of the job from that of the person undertaking it . |
| 25 | Forfeiture for non-payment of rent follows a different procedure from that of forfeiture for breach of any other covenant in the lease . |
| 26 | Soon the bodies began to pile up here , too , and yet again the Collector and his men had to put their shoulders to the carnal barricade to prevent it from being ejected into the hall ; and yet again , as if in a dream , the Collector found his face an inch from that of an amused sepoy and thought : " It surely ca n't be the same man ! " for from this corpse 's moustache there was also a scent of patchouli . |
| 27 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 28 | The subject also expanded greatly in scope from that of the study of leys , and one theme which began to be explored was that of folklore . |
| 29 | He scouts Chapman 's explanation on the grounds that aerodynamic forces change the trajectory of the ball from that of a perfect parabola and that would ruin the results of calculation based on the tangent . |
| 30 | For example , much library work with students takes place on a one-to-one basis , and offers opportunities for a different adult/student relationship from that of the classroom . |