Example sentences of "[prep] very different " in BNC.

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1 The CRE organised a series of three seminars in order to bring together people of very different points of view and evolve a broad consensus on some of the large issues raised by the Rushdie affair .
2 No matter how small the sample size , however , it would obscure the analysis to group readers of very different papers , such as the Guardian and the Telegraph , together .
3 Providing the necessary care is obviously problematic — and for a number of very different kinds of reason .
4 Education is often used as an ideological tool by regimes of very different political persuasions , and sometimes itself becomes a site of political conflict .
5 Then there is the fact that audiences consist of very different groups of people .
6 Getting these two sets of very different people to work for a common cause is n't always easy but , as well as you can , make sure both understand that :
7 The comradeship , energy and commitment of the core of the Working Party , comprising as it did a lot of very different people , was an example of the possibilities of uniting diverse interests and oppressions to the mutual advantage of all concerned , including management .
8 We asked our designer to create a series of very different looks using Allied furniture , carpets , fabrics and accessories .
9 For language skills which are first seen to occur in children of very different ages , it may be more helpful to choose the age by which a given percentage ( for example , 50 per cent ) of the total sample has shown evidence of that skill .
10 Of course , individuals do become fluent in the exercise of language within a number of very different contexts and some of these may not , at first sight , appear to be social .
11 The build-up of the Binbrook Canberra Wing in 1951 meant that Bomber Command had entered the jet age ; the Lincolns and Washingtons were being replaced by an aircraft of very different character and performance .
12 In the form of the consciousness registered in the antislavery celebrations of the 1830s , manifestations of a triumphant unity could betray evidence of very different senses of who had primarily achieved the triumph and how .
13 There can of course still be disagreements even when there is clear mutual understanding because underlying values result in the assessment of very different priorities .
14 In the agrarian south and east of the continent , the character of society was dominated by two classes of very different size : a body of wealthy landowners , still often enjoying the prestige and privilege and sometimes the legal and noble status of its feudal forebears , and a huge mass of subordinate peasants , some of whom might be freeholders , but by and large economically dependent on the landowners .
15 It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things like icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market .
16 It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things such as icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market .
17 We look at Europe as a series of very different market conditions and risks . ’
18 This symbolic , familial structure of affiliation between firms of very different sizes makes it difficult to identify the exact extent of independent control especially where subcontractors supply the bulk of their output to one buyer .
19 The starting-point , then , is the idea of identical men of very different environments and the hereditary reasons why English Rudolf Rassendyll so strikingly resembles Rudolf , King of Ruritania .
20 It is not hard to see how the two positions may be invoked in support of very different views on how children should learn to read .
21 A number of very different trends were to be seen in a sample of frequencies on bus routes , ranging from consistent decline over the period since 1939 to slight increase in recent years on a few routes .
22 The sociology of culture , in its most recent and most active forms , has to be seen as a convergence of very different interests and methods .
23 Just as you might make a selection of examples of written English from newspapers , journals , academic textbooks or works of fiction , so you can have video material of very different styles and construction .
24 Community disturbance was considerable , with very high annual transference rates of people from slum housing to alternative accommodation of very different style , quality , location and community setting .
25 They also entered a world of very different beliefs from their own .
26 It comprises painters of very different kinds , who all , in their work , are animated by a vision of life that is more internal , more popular and more poetic .
27 Later , after Picasso had denied any knowledge of African art in the Enquête sur l'Art Négre conducted by the review Action in 1920 , Paul Guillaume , the first Parisian art-dealer to become interested in African and other primitive sculptures as works of art , wrote : ‘ Picasso owns a certain number of pieces of very different origins ; he makes a pretence of attaching no importance to their chronology . ’
28 Such joint relationships could occur between spouses of very different backgrounds .
29 As Nietzsche uses them , however , the names denote not merely this pair of very different Greek deities , but two large , supra-historical , and diametrically opposite aspects of art and existence in general .
30 He went through a quick succession of very different feelings .
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