Example sentences of "[prep] be different " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own taste for formal furniture tends to fall between the ‘ Arts and Crafts ’ and ‘ Modern ’ , rather than ‘ Repro ’ , and yet looking at modern designs you see in exhibitions , I doubt their ‘ long-sit ’ comfort and , personally , I feel that the limits of acceptable elegance are frequently passed by many , in the cause of being different . |
| 2 | This state of detachment is in some ways like the discrimination of Shankara in which all things are seen to be the same though they possess the illusion of being different . |
| 3 | There was a terrible fear of Being Different in those two houses . |
| 4 | An equally important issue to investigate is how stigmatization may be linked to the fear of being different . |
| 5 | This is more of the same , a comic novel about the difficulties of being different . |
| 6 | I 'm fed up with being different from everyone else . |
| 7 | You 'll what you 'll end up with is different organisations managing houses scattered all over the city . |
| 8 | Dare to be different |
| 9 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted to be different , ’ he admitted . |
| 11 | But with football it is going to be different . |
| 12 | The phenomenon seems to me to be different in kind from the first . |
| 13 | The last word must go to Nick : ‘ She said it was going to be different , but I did n't realise quite how different . |
| 14 | There is , for instance , likely to be different ‘ weighting ’ for results . |
| 15 | When people are attempting to be different for the sake of it , I find it incredibly irritating . ’ |
| 16 | Pugin was not trying to be different for the sake of it ; his medieval revival was born from a genuine moral and religious fervour . |
| 17 | The mood and issues of the 1990s are bound to be different from those of the 1980s . |
| 18 | Perception of extension is subject to relativities too , the same thing appearing to be different shapes according to our view . |
| 19 | It has been said of them that ‘ in order to be different they dress exactly alike ’ ! |
| 20 | They wanted me to be different from what I was . |
| 21 | Growing more acquisitive in the present , they prepared to disown the past ; the future was to be different , both for themselves and their children , and they had to run to catch up with it . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , I 'm not an educated man , I came here to show my solidarity and things are going to be different from now on . ’ |
| 23 | This God allows people to be different from each other — slaves from the free , Jews from Greeks and women from men . |
| 24 | DARING TO BE DIFFERENT |
| 25 | Hailed as the weird and wonderful show that dared to be different , the media could n't lavish enough praise on David Lynch 's Twin Peaks when it debuted on American television in April . |
| 26 | I seemed to be drifting from one thing to another , trying to please my parents and trying to do the opposite from Pat , to be different . |
| 27 | One , a punk , talked about the village in Wales where she lives and how difficult it is to be different , so that dyeing her hair blue becomes an extremely powerful statement about herself , saying all the things she wants to about her rejection of the values of the people in her village . |
| 28 | I realise that there are many young Asian women living in Britain today who might find it difficult to be different from their friends at school . |
| 29 | Treasury ideas are bound to be different , and should have to do with choice and with making markets work . |
| 30 | Just dare to be different . |