Example sentences of "[be] [prep] a different " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then , Chapman considered that the all-red jersey looked ordinary , out of tune with the club 's distinction , so he decided that in line with Aston Villa , until then the club with the greatest prestige and tradition behind it , the sleeves should be of a different colour to the rest of the top . |
| 2 | Or they may be of a different kind . |
| 3 | Differences are likely to stimulate choice ; the smallest chair might be most suitable for the ‘ baby ’ , place settings might each be of a different colour , saucepans might be chosen by size to fit the ring available . |
| 4 | They are of two sorts — those which are an integral part of the book , printed on the same paper and gathered up for binding with the rest of the sections ( though they will usually be paged separately ) ; and leaves or sections printed separately , sometimes on different paper altogether , which may even be of a different size . |
| 5 | This model would , of course , be the cheapest possible for cremation ; anything more elaborate would require to be of a different design and materials . |
| 6 | In each case the containing font may be of a different size , but the title will adapt . |
| 7 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 8 | At Chedworth , however , the simple geometrics of rooms 11 and 14 appear to be of a different quality to those portrayed in Lysons ' engravings of plates 44 and 45 ; although here ( and also at North Leigh : pI . |
| 9 | Excavation beneath this mosaic has shown the mortar beneath the central -roundel to be of a different character to that used elsewhere in the pavement ( Goodburn pers. comm. ) : the overall picture , therefore , suggests two workmen , or ( less probably given the remarkable variety of the meander ) one workman using " acquired " sections of prefabricated mosaic . |
| 10 | The information gained on each generation will be from a different perspective , but will be in each case of intrinsic value in contributing to our understanding of the changing patterns and experience of ageing in the ordinary population . |
| 11 | It had been thought no money would be forthcoming , but the new grant will be from a different department within the SAC , it emerged yesterday . |
| 12 | But , if underfloor engines and transmissions were to be used , they had to be in a different league of reliability and performance from the DMUs which BR had been running since the 1950s . |
| 13 | But other things would be in a different category . |
| 14 | Somehow what is left of Beaufort conspires to embody these political and religious transitions ; when the mists lie in the valleys of southern Lebanon , the remaining walls can be glimpsed above the clouds , but because of the peculiar geography of the place — because the ravines and wadis fold in uneven formation and in odd directions — Beaufort always appears to be in a different location , its broken ramparts a nightmare denture which eludes every contour and coordinate . |
| 15 | Each ‘ pass ’ may be in a different colour . |
| 16 | If you filled one in to read Pay John Smith one thousand pounds , and it was stolen , the thief could sign it on the back with the name John Smith , and then pay it into his own account , which might be in a different name entirely . |
| 17 | But if there are more than about 12–15 words in the unclassifiable group , and your children are older than 9 , then look again more carefully , because you have probably put words there that ought to be in a different category . |
| 18 | That is to say that a word in bold in your word processor file should still be bold when it gets onto the page , even though it has changed from being monospaced typescript to a real typeface and may be in a different size altogether . |
| 19 | Even if the policies of successive governments since World War II had been successful in all respects , would we now be in a different situation fiscally and socially ? |
| 20 | One can learn the techniques of counselling just as one can learn to sing or to run but one will still be in a different league from those who were born with these skills . |
| 21 | Twice I rose and tried to help her , but I seemed to be in a different dream . |
| 22 | We ca n't say er we ca n't ask to be in a different Division to Notts County and Derby and Leicester . |
| 23 | In other cases the plotter hardware is physically located some distance from the user ; for example , the user may be in a different building or even at a subsidiary office in another town . |
| 24 | Yeah well they would n't be in a different colour if they were n't vital to us . |
| 25 | So I 'm touching wood that we 're gon na be in a different situation . |
| 26 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 27 | A few men will not get the message during the flight , and will land believing themselves to be on a different drop zone . |
| 28 | It 's still not uncommon to meet people who declare that if one were seated in a Parisian cafe , rather than a British pub , then the conversation would be on a different level . |
| 29 | If ‘ appears ’ is the logical complement of ‘ thinks ’ , so that ‘ X appears φ to Y ’ means ‘ Y thinks X is φ ’ , then the thinking involved must somehow be on a different level , or something , to what we ordinarily understand by thinking . |
| 30 | I said , above , that if ‘ appears ’ is the logical complement of ‘ thinks ’ then ‘ the thinking involved must somehow be on a different level , or something , to what we ordinarily understand by thinking ’ . |