Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [vb past] different " in BNC.
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| 1 | For diverse and often disparate groupings , the language of scientificity stood as a metaphor and a referent , which condensed specific anxieties and signified different solutions to different people . |
| 2 | In each age they had different demands and made different choices for the use of the land . |
| 3 | The difference in the political context meant that the formulation and transmission of government objectives took on different forms and involved different actors in the two cases , most notably where the unions were concerned , as we shall see . |
| 4 | The two schools came to different conclusions because they asked different kinds of questions and had different views as to what counted as an explanation , and of how an explanation should be evaluated . |
| 5 | Alternatively , the analyst could say these different sentences to a group of listeners and ask them all to write down what attitudes they thought were being expressed ; however , we have a vast range of adjectives available for labelling attitudes and the members of the group would probably produce a very large number of such adjectives , leaving the analyst with the problem of deciding whether pairs such as ‘ pompous ’ and ‘ stuck-up ’ , or ‘ obsequious ’ and ‘ sycophantic ’ were synonyms or represented different attitudes . |
| 6 | But he thought that the links were bound to become more tenuous when the institutions were paid for from different purses and had different bureaucratic structures . |