Example sentences of "to be different " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dare to be different |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I wanted to be different , ’ he admitted . |
| 4 | But with football it is going to be different . |
| 5 | The phenomenon seems to me to be different in kind from the first . |
| 6 | The last word must go to Nick : ‘ She said it was going to be different , but I did n't realise quite how different . |
| 7 | There is , for instance , likely to be different ‘ weighting ’ for results . |
| 8 | When people are attempting to be different for the sake of it , I find it incredibly irritating . ’ |
| 9 | Pugin was not trying to be different for the sake of it ; his medieval revival was born from a genuine moral and religious fervour . |
| 10 | The mood and issues of the 1990s are bound to be different from those of the 1980s . |
| 11 | Perception of extension is subject to relativities too , the same thing appearing to be different shapes according to our view . |
| 12 | It has been said of them that ‘ in order to be different they dress exactly alike ’ ! |
| 13 | They wanted me to be different from what I was . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Look , I 'm not an educated man , I came here to show my solidarity and things are going to be different from now on . ’ |
| 16 | This God allows people to be different from each other — slaves from the free , Jews from Greeks and women from men . |
| 17 | DARING TO BE DIFFERENT |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Treasury ideas are bound to be different , and should have to do with choice and with making markets work . |
| 23 | Just dare to be different . |
| 24 | The nature of the planning process at the various levels needs to be different . |
| 25 | ‘ Paris was the place then , ’ he said , ‘ but I wanted to be different . |
| 26 | If two uncontrolled groups prove to be different in some respect , we can only treat this as evidence of a causal relationship if we are convinced that they are not also different in some other important respect , as we shall |
| 27 | Do n't be afraid to be different . |
| 28 | A possible basis for the contrast was suggested : proper names single out principal protagonists in narratives , and so , even in the simplest of materials , will tend to put the named character in a role which is likely to be different from that played by a character introduced through a noun . |
| 29 | These results are consistent with the findings of Chowdhury and Kreitman ( 1971 ) , and Kreitman and Chowdhury ( 1973a ) , who found attempted suicide patients and Samaritan clients to be different in many respects — the Samaritan clients , for example , including a greater proportion of men , and more socially isolated individuals . |
| 30 | For example , the weight distribution for each type has to be different . |