Example sentences of "[noun sg] different from that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the least it is usually laid down that the amendment of the Constitution can take place only through a special process different from that by which the ordinary law is altered … |
| 2 | The advent of the new political regime changed this ; for the first time it was possible to conceive of a legal order which rested on a basis different from that of the civil law . |
| 3 | It thereby implicitly recognises that culture does indeed have a meaning different from that of beef or grain . |
| 4 | It tends to run with a period different from that of a solar day ! |
| 5 | Further unhappiness and a similar rift were generated over opinion and strategy in defence , where de Gaulle was striking out on a path different from that of the other Western allies , a path that culminated in the withdrawal of France from the NATO military command structure in 1966 , necessitating the removal of NATO headquarters from Paris to Brussels . |
| 6 | Any object with a conductivity different from that of the water will distort the pattern . |
| 7 | I may have to learn a notion of proof different from that to which I am accustomed . |
| 8 | The alienness of Tolkien 's elves , the thing which makes their whole history different from that of humanity , is obviously that ( in the natural course of things ) they do not die . |
| 9 | The shape of these Cycladic pots is that of the common store-jar ( pithos ) , and such decorated relief-pithoi are found elsewhere also , particularly in Crete which has an artistic history different from that of the rest of Greece . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is important when dealing with older people who in many cases are not now what they have been , making the counselling task different from that of any other age group . |