Example sentences of "differ [adv] from [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Gallup 's findings indicate the swing in the marginals since 1987 differs little from that in the rest of the country . |
| 2 | It is questionable , however , whether the provisions actually add to a victim 's opportunity for compensation and it has been argued that the procedure differs little from that required for any civil action except that the funds are preserved . |
| 3 | It follows that Gandhi 's view of symbols differs somewhat from that of Tillich in the sense that they do not point to a hypostasized Ultimate . |
| 4 | ‘ The practical skills and experience I have gained do not appear to differ widely from those gained by my friends in private practice . |
| 5 | On one level , whilst the rhetoric of such intervention is often that of the free market , the logic seems to differ little from that of social engineering and regional policy which was commonly thought out of fashion and eschewed in such circles over ten years ago . |
| 6 | Those who were not traced differed slightly from those who were : their birth weight was 0.2 pounds ( 91 g ) less , for example . |
| 7 | If speculative efficiency is true , we would expect the likelihood from the unrestricted model to differ insignificantly from that of the restricted model . |
| 8 | After extending palaeomagnetic investigations to rocks from North America it was found that while these too showed an apparent movement of the magnetic pole the path of polar wandering appeared to differ systematically from that determined for Europe . |
| 9 | The style of dress within this group was unremarkable and differed little from that worn by people of this age group in most social contexts . |
| 10 | The development of children , including educational attainment , social and emotional behaviour , and aspirations for the future , differed little from those of two-parent families . |
| 11 | Moreover , his values differed little from those of his unlamented father : he was committed to upholding autocracy , the nobility , and Russia 's military might . |
| 12 | It is an unlikely occurrence but it could happen and we would feel concerned if it did ; indeed , we would probably be unhappy with any sample where the sex ratio differed greatly from that of the whole school . |
| 13 | While we might indeed readily hypothesize that these individuals were generally less likely than Ballymacarrett people to be subject to the pressures of their personal networks and more likely to be subject to a less localized outside influence , it is hard to suggest dimensions on which a number of looseknit networks , which differed greatly from each other , might be systematically compared ( but see 5.7.4 for an account of Bortoni-Ricardo 's study of rural immigrants to a Brazilian city ) . |
| 14 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 15 | The model differed slightly from that approved in January by the BLDC political subcommittee , which had proposed a 30 per cent starting point [ see p. 37185 ] . |
| 16 | Regular computer analyses of the results reported by each fieldworker were done to identify workers whose results differed substantially from those of their colleagues ; they were given extra supervision and , where necessary , retraining . |
| 17 | By 1953 the international situation and the French political situation differed radically from that of 1950 when the Pleven Plan was launched . |
| 18 | In addition , the DFR 's text differed sharply from that of the ocean bill of lading in that it lacked the terms and conditions of carriage , including disclaimers . |
| 19 | The social profile of the women differed markedly from that of the men in a number of respects . |
| 20 | At the same time , although he much liked Maritain as a person ( as who could not ? ) , he felt that the French post-Bergsonian intellectual approach , even if called ‘ Neo-scholastique ’ , differed markedly from that of St Thomas himself : it was the difference between a hovering darting kestrel and a ‘ dumb ox ’ pawing the ground . |
| 21 | In the Emmental region the loca customary laws of inheritance differed markedly from most of their neighbours . |
| 22 | The early industrial landscapes differed essentially from those that developed with steam-power . |
| 23 | By the early twentieth century , paleontologists were promoting a coherent model of evolution that differed significantly from that proposed by the early Darwinians . |
| 24 | With such a low response , however , it was necessary to select some of the non-respondents in order to find out why they had not completed and returned the questionnaire , and whether their views and experiences of the Oxfordshire scheme differed significantly from those who had responded . |
| 25 | A series of discriminant analyses were then run to test whether and , if so , in what ways the views of these non-respondents differed significantly from those of the respondents . |
| 26 | ANOVA of the pepsinogen A:C ratio followed by the Newman-Keuls procedure showed that the mean value of hypertrophic gastropathy differed significantly from those of patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and chronic renal failure . |
| 27 | The mean value of Zollinger-Ellison patients differed significantly from those of all other patient groups . |
| 28 | No grouping had basal upper oesophageal sphincter pressure that differed significantly from any other . |
| 29 | Expressions for the components of the Weyl tensor 0 , 2 and 4 describing the wave and interaction components have been given by Chandrasekhar and Ferrari ( 1984 ) , though in a notation which differs slightly from that adopted here . |
| 30 | The American auctioneer 's style differs slightly from that of his London counterpart — there is a greater element of showmanship — and it is interesting that most of the transplanted English auctioneers have developed a technique that combines elements of both styles . |