Example sentences of "[adj] from the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said , in effect , that the extent of , say , carbonate deposits over a few square miles in the Bahamas at the present day is something quite different from the persistence of carbonates in early Carboniferous times over much of the northern hemisphere . |
| 2 | These activities in themselves are no different from the kind of activities often found in books of exercises , but here the context is crucially different . |
| 3 | This facility can be used to indicate individual items in a set of data that have to be treated in a special way , different from the majority of items in the set ; a special case is " undefined " items , which have not as yet been assigned a value . |
| 4 | This is totally different from the state of affairs when we are awake and have taken an hallucinatory drug , when , however compelling the hallucination , we are well aware that the experience is drug-induced , and not " real " . |
| 5 | This latter type of work , it is claimed here , is not logically as different from the work of sociologists and anthropologists as it is from that of scientists working with animals , plants or inanimate objects . |
| 6 | Baudrillard perceives this as the product of multi-national capitalism , but on reflection this principle is not so different from the utility of relations enhanced by the object which was stressed as socially cohesive in a non-industrial society . |
| 7 | But their role in this capacity was totally different from the role of visitors to universities and colleges . |
| 8 | Quite different from the cacophony of patterns and painting styles which characterised his work of a decade ago , they employ greater expanses of pure colour and favour passages of thick impasto laboriously built up in acrylic paints . |
| 9 | The ships were taken out of service in circumstances entirely different from the set of priorities and considerations that apply today . |
| 10 | Perhaps the very first thing you will discover in acquiring a knowledge of actual police work , though it is in fact obvious , is that the sort of murders the police deal with are very different from the sort of murders that the detectives of detective stories dealt with . |
| 11 | It is clear from the evidence of wills from all social classes up to the sovereign himself that society valued the spiritual input of those whose dying to worldly values ( at their enclosure the burial service was read over them ) was not regarded with jokey discomfort as disturbingly eccentric , but valued as contributing a unique gift to a total social welfare . |
| 12 | It is clear from the nature of police work in the district that the relations the police have with the public in this largely Protestant area parallel those that police forces have in societies where religion is not a social marker . |
| 13 | People who are in one particular workplace and that workplace makes up the branch , then it 's clear from the sort of jobs that they do which section they should be in . |
| 14 | Clearly , the basis of paternalism — that decisions concerning a particular person 's fate are better made for him than by him , because others wiser than he are more keenly aware of his best interests than he can be — conflicts with the notion of a right to self-determination , whereby a person is deemed entitled to make his own decisions concerning himself , within tolerable limits , free from the interference of others . |
| 15 | Graduated separatism creates a space where women and girls can be free from the burden of men and their persistent sexism long enough to gain confidence and a skill , which would otherwise have been impossible . |
| 16 | " Imagination " is the upper level of animal intellectual activity according to Boethius , as distinct from the Reason of humans and the Intelligence of God and angels ( cf. |
| 17 | But they are arbitrations which contractually-incorporated rules and commercial practice make exempt from the requirement of submissions and oral evidence . |
| 18 | Similarly , being closed and self-contained , the structure implies a concentric form of organization with the centre as the organizing agent which would then be exempt from the play of differences which , instead , it appears to control . |
| 19 | ‘ That the experience was an intense one for all was obvious from the babel of voices on the road down . |
| 20 | The Labour leadership has already stated that it will take advantage of instalment payments still outstanding from the sale of shares in British Telecom and the Scottish electricity companies . |
| 21 | While it is well known that machair may extend as much as 2 km inland in South Uist , less well known is the altitude to which blown shell sand exerts an ecological influence : the dunes at Luskentyre Banks ( NG 0699 ) are up to 35 m high , while the presence of large amounts of wind-blown shell fragments is evident from the presence of charophytes in lochs on Tairaval ( NB 1135 ) ( Angus , unpublished NCC report ) and at Mangersta ( NB 0131 ) ( Biagi et al 1985 ) , both sites being more than 50 m above sea level . |
| 22 | The simplicity of wing chun is evident from the number of forms , or sets , the student has to master . |
| 23 | That Duck had opened a new avenue of literary expression is evident from the number of poems published in the 1730s , often addressed to Duck , in which poets assert the literary possibilities of their own labour . |
| 24 | As is evident from the extent of objections in the educational journals and in the summary of responses ( Haviland , 1988 ) to the National Curriculum consultation document ( DES , 1987 ) , the writer 's research uncovered a substantial resistance to this ideological shift from the teaching profession . |
| 25 | Equally , it must be apparent from the statement of reasons how the court has approached its duty under section 25 or indeed whatever section or sections of the Act of 1989 with which they are concerned . |
| 26 | Mr Gray said : ‘ On that basis , it is very alarming that £75 million is being top-sliced from the level of consents and only if these sums are achieved will local government be able to spend up to the figure of £628 million . ’ |
| 27 | The District Council and the Regional Council have jointly published a free leaflet ‘ Cycle Routes in Edinburgh ’ which is obtainable from the Department of Highways . |
| 28 | The District Council and the Regional Council have jointly published a free leaflet ‘ Cycle Routes in Edinburgh ’ which is obtainable from the Department of Highways , |
| 29 | Mainframe and minicomputers have data storage facilities which are remote from the majority of suppliers and users of the data They can be stored on magnetic material , often in the form of tape ( much as music can be held on magnetic tape ) These tapes are held centrally and are frequently accessible to many users . |
| 30 | Where among the fathers there had been one representative each of gamekeeper , watchman , pilot , none of these trades was represented among the husbands : instead there were one each of policeman , teacher , minister of religion , prison warder and two farmers : occupations entirely absent from the list of fathers . |