Example sentences of "different from [pron] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theory has to cope with situations in which the dynamical properties of particles , such as electrons , protons and neutrons , and even atoms , are very different from what we would expect of a scaled-down billiard ball following its usual ‘ classical ’ behaviour . |
| 2 | They were big , comfortable-looking farm buildings , not much different from what one might find in parts of Perthshire , except that the upper floor had a roofed balcony running along one side . |
| 3 | The motion is thus a highly ordered one , although different from what one might anticipate . |
| 4 | But even if we accept that there is a significant difference between the ‘ legal ’ and ‘ political ’ processes in the way in which decisions are reached , they would both still come firmly within the definition of power we adopted in part I , that is the ability to get others to do what you want them to , assuming this is different from what they would have done anyway , with the use or threat of sanctions if necessary . |
| 5 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 6 | This may have had an effect on the conversation : first , in respect of the content , which may have been different from what they would otherwise have talked about , and secondly in that the girls may have tried consciously to use " Jamaican " . |
| 7 | It is easy to forget that the majority of the people living on earth still lived and died where they had been born , or , more precisely , that their movements were no greater or no different from what they would have been before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 8 | In particular , in the interpretation of provisions of the SGA 1979 relating to implied terms , Lord Diplock said ( at p501 ) that the Act " ought not to be construed so narrowly as to force on parties to contracts for the sale of goods promises and consequences different from what they must reasonably have intended " . |
| 9 | It was n't any different from what it would be back home . |
| 10 | It is just different from what it would be had Gloriana been intended as a Grand Opera in the A ida sense . |
| 11 | Except that their role is more obscure to the public eye , the authorities ' influence over short-term interest rates is not very different from what it used to be when they announced an MLR each week and expected institutions to comply . |
| 12 | ‘ The meals are very different from what you would get at home , but once they are brought to the boil they give off a most delicious smell . ’ |
| 13 | All it covers is the basic treatment in line with the minimum requirement in the country where you are staying — and that can be very different from what you would expect from the NHS . |
| 14 | ‘ What you should want to pursue him for might be different from what I would pursue him for . ’ |
| 15 | It is ‘ an extraordinary compound ’ , as he himself wrote of the Prime Minister , although the elements and the whole are as different from anything which could have emanated from Lloyd George as it is possible to imagine . |