Example sentences of "different [noun pl] [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 Colouring was done by hand , following pattern plates coloured by the artist , so that different copies of the same work , perhaps done several years apart in a slow-selling book , may differ considerably among themselves .
2 The number of fully established senses is presumably finite at any one time ( though it may differ for different members of the language community , and at different times for the same speaker ) .
3 Some owners have observed that two helpings of exactly the same cat food , given at different times on the same day , are treated differently — the first being eaten , the second rejected .
4 This comes clearly into focus with a realisation that the differences in recall at different times by the same person are to be understood through this creativity process .
5 ‘ That could mean having children of vastly different ages in the same class , ’ he says .
6 Whether two different surfaces of the same area have the same radiation signature was generalised to the point where mathematicians asked if drums of the same perimeter and area , but different shape , had different sounds : could one hear the shape of a drum ?
7 Similarly , where in different strata of the same excavation or in separate sites discontinuities in the styles of artefacts occur , these indicate that different manufacturing communities are involved .
8 Evidently , different dictionaries can provide quite different definitions for the same word .
9 Similarly , Marshall Sahlins 's work on the Hawaiian islanders in his Islands of History , though far more acutely aware of contending multiple narratives trying to ascribe different significances to the same happenings , is also organised so that it allows Sahlins to present a narrative wherein conflicting stories/histories are mapped out in a framework which explores these histories ' interpenetrations , their assimilations of each other rather than their refusals of each other .
10 If different strains of Lolium perenne produce different phenotypes from the same clone of white clover , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that different species of grass are even more likely to exert different selective pressures within populations of white clover .
11 By writing down their key words , taken from headings within the chapter , you can have in front of you parallel but different patterns of the same subject .
12 All religions , according to Gandhi , are different roads to the same goal and it is his contention that there will always be a variety of religions corresponding to different human temperaments and environments .
13 One of the reasons for the slow advance in understanding syphilis and gonorrhoea was the belief that the two conditions were simply different manifestations of the same disease .
14 As we have repeatedly noted , however , politics and religion for Israel at the time were inextricably associated — were , in fact , essentially different manifestations of the same thing .
15 Barrett was the first to suggest that these fibrotic conditions were inter-related and probably different manifestations of the same disorder .
16 There are some scary production photos showing Burroughs , Cronenberg and leading actor Peter Weller staring , bespectacled and unblinking , into the camera , as though they were three different generations of the same person .
17 This comes from the study by Goldthorpe , Llewellyn and Payne ( 1980 , pp. 152–6 ) on patterns of social mobility for men , as measured by a comparison of the occupational status of different generations of the same family .
18 Recognise a large number of different Fonts on the same page ;
19 Lawrence Durrell sustains in his own way what he calls his ‘ challenge to the serial form of the modern novel ’ : in The Alexandria Quartet , he presents successively three different views of the same set of events , creating a novel ‘ not travelling from a to b but standing above time ’ ( Durrell 1957 and 1983 : 198 ) .
20 Database technology has significance as it can assist in many of these problem areas : high-level end-user languages such as SQL can be embedded in standard programming languages to integrate data-base facilities with other functional aspects ; management of large volumes of persistent data , including such aspects as security , integrity , concurrency and optimization of access , is a central tenet of the technology ; multi-level architectures with mappings from logical to physical levels provide different views of the same stored data ; content-addressing can be integrated with navigation to give facilities as sophisticated as those found in information retrieval systems .
21 But its flexibility depends upon the levels of aggregation adopted and the willingness to provide different views of the same information .
22 As they jockey for position , firms often adopt quite different strategies within the same industry .
23 Assignment , on the other hand , requires a more explicit focus on the particular property assigned ; what is assigned may be a complex property ( like fairly acceptable ) , or even a co-ordination ; but to expect a single linguistic faculty to make two separate assignments of properties to the same entity in the same phrase would be unreasonable ; it would be analogous to expecting a physical eye to focus on two different objects at the same time .
24 The reliability of a test is measured by correlation between the test scores , obtained at two different times , between different forms of the same test or between samples of questions in different parts of the same test .
25 Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases .
26 Intracommodity spreads involve different contracts of the same future , for example selling the December 1989 future and buying the March 1990 future in the FT-SE 100 index on LIFFE .
27 Such behaviour results from the importance of " league tables " in attracting further primary eurobond business and " relationships " with issuers , the existence of " joint demand " for different products from the same firm — and possibly also joint costs in the production of different services .
28 So , the network can simultaneously represent a single reader 's conception of nine different texts , or nine readers ' different reactions to the same text .
29 But Origen and Augustine could also explain differences between ( for example ) the evangelists by observing that different eyewitnesses normally give different accounts of the same event .
30 Two sources offering different accounts of the same issue or event , provide the history teacher with another very useful device .
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