Example sentences of "different [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the instruments used for white middle-class parents may not be equally appropriate for black parents because they may fail to take account of different subjective experiences and racial and ethnic backgrounds . |
| 2 | This is why different thermoregulatory devices exist such as skin , fur , feather and scales , all of which play differing roles . |
| 3 | Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties . |
| 4 | Yet an overview of practice suggests that different political philosophies mould very different approaches to educational integration . |
| 5 | If allies were able to provide the necessities of life , primitive valuables could have acted as a medium of exchange ; primitive valuables may also have been used as a means of contracting alliances as may marriages between members of different political groups . |
| 6 | I , I , maybe before we start that , on the point of reductions , and I 'll ask both er , George and , and er , Jean and Mike to , to speak for the different political groups , as part of the P A G , erm , when we did go through this process , I , I mean it was very difficult for us as a P A G. |
| 7 | Under Franco , they used to be distributed among representatives of the different political groups that made up the regime 's base of support ; under democracy , incumbents in such posts have tended to be replaced with each change of government . |
| 8 | As a result , the precise direction of innovation by the companies that introduce new technology often has little to do with improved efficiency or better production , but depends on the different political interests of the managers and workers involved . |
| 9 | Most media professionals appear to know what is expected of them in their various organisations , each of which has different political backers , and the media product tends to be created accordingly . |
| 10 | Different sets perform different political tasks . |
| 11 | In its election of the supreme council members the party renounced monolithic leadership unity , Lilov commenting later that " different political tendencies are now well formed and all are reflected in the leading bodies " . |
| 12 | In the United States , although a social survey movement not unlike the tradition of Booth , Rowntree and , later , Bowley , was prominent in the early years of the twentieth century , different political traditions , among other things , gave rise to a different use of social surveys . |
| 13 | However , in the context of local authorities these initiatives can also host a competition between different political forces over which of them is going to take immediate priority . |
| 14 | An opinion survey by the party 's communications group showed women had significantly different political views from men . |
| 15 | The men also tended to have different political views as they came from such a huge and diverse country . |
| 16 | There is the need to protect the anonymity of public servants whose loyalty to different political leaders must not be jeopardized by public exposure . |
| 17 | Given the different political cultures that exist , seeking to anticipate what would happen in Britain on the basis of experience abroad is an undertaking of limited usefulness . |
| 18 | Different organizations operated from different political standpoints , from within different boundaries and on different time-scales . |
| 19 | It had always been the president 's strength , the way he managed to keep all the different political factions under control , to keep them talking as the Soviet Union underwent her tremendous social change . |
| 20 | Conversely , indigenous politicians , who do not make explicit reference to the individual actor as having multiple points of view , may nevertheless in practice make considerable use of those multiple points of view that are implicit in the existence of different political factions . |
| 21 | Indeed , there could be peaceful co-existence between different political systems . |
| 22 | Fitting different political systems into this schema empirically involved defining the dimensions on the following variables . |
| 23 | Spain has the added advantage as a comparator , therefore , that it contains its own recent ‘ internal comparison ’ between markedly different political systems . |
| 24 | Others , like Nottingham and Stamford , failed — though the failure was due to entirely different political circumstances . |
| 25 | Social elitism , however , needs to be distinguished from political elitism : Labour and Conservative councillors on a local authority could easily have relatively similar ( and relatively elitist ) social backgrounds but very different political priorities . |
| 26 | This is a language , a world view , a form of life perhaps , wherein one of the principal reasons for according praise to a type of art is that it is able to give voice to a politics ; Bolshevism in the main case , though as Callinicos acknowledges , one of the salient points about Modernism was its ‘ ambiguity , its capacity to express a variety of different political positions ’ ; that is , when it was not engaged on its more usual ‘ flight from politics ’ ( p. 161 ) . |
| 27 | This is a clear indication that these initiatives have developed locally , have taken account of local conditions , have started from different political positions and bases , and have had their roots in very different local experiences . |
| 28 | Nairn ( 1981 ) and Weiner ( 1981 ) have argued from very different political positions that this culture together with the predominance of financial capital has undermined British industry . |
| 29 | Writing from two very different political positions they draw the same conclusion : the Congo experience had a traumatic effect upon Nkrumah 's view of Ghana 's relations with Britain , the United States and the Commonwealth . |
| 30 | They agreed on the direction of change , Yel'tsin suggested in October 1990 , but not about its tempo ; Gorbachev , for his part , professed to see the difference not in personal terms but as one between ‘ two different political lines and programmatic aims ’ . |