Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] different " in BNC.

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1 The teacher had given them bricks of different widths .
2 I think the art of moving around as I have done in my career into different products and functions and into various industries is the ability to sum up quickly your close colleagues .
3 As I gave her an exaggerated account of my clashes with different members of my family , she continued to discourage me , saying that the work in London was hard and that exile was no easy way of life .
4 If institutions are out of phase with social formation , the most powerful institution will be that which is most useful in regulating the conflict between interests which have their foundations in different modes of production — the bureaucracy .
5 When an organisation diversifies its activities into different products and markets , it is common for the structure to be ‘ divisionalised ’ .
6 the ability to combine its personnel in different ways .
7 Furthermore , social work ( or social pedagogy ) in its variety of different approaches has become firmly established as a cornerstone of the German welfare system and a vital part of the legitimacy of the state .
8 As was the case with their administrative reforms , the liberals of the nineteenth century were to rest their offensive on different ideological foundations ; but their practical demands on the Church remained , largely , an extension of the regalism of the late-eighteenth-century civil servants .
9 The factor structure was also similar , though , as might be expected from their exposure to different schemes ( mandatory and voluntary ) , not exactly so .
10 OUR MONTHLY BEGINNER 'S GUIDE TO COMPUTING CONTINUES ITS LOOK AT DIFFERENT FILE TYPES .
11 Although the quantity and quality of all this information seems impressive at first glance , it is inevitably uneven in its coverage of different trades .
12 Different patients vary in their response to different therapies — possibly a subtle effect of the inherited background — and no therapy has yet been devised which will suit everyone .
13 At the same time , the figure for ‘ operational balances at the Bank of England ’ falls by an equal amount as the recipients of his cheques pay them into their accounts at different banks and the cheques are presented for payment at the issuing bank .
14 In general ( see Appendix I , Table 12c ) women and men did not differ much in their attitudes to different types of credit , but women had more favourable options of mail order .
15 THERE ARE excellent opportunities for people to keep on learning more about their faith in different parts of the diocese .
16 Men and women may express their faith in different terms , but there is an underlying and profound similarity beneath all the differences .
17 Each town and city suffered a proliferation of unconnected lines , each with their termini in different quarters .
18 Central to the tax are the bands into which homes of different value will be sorted .
19 People acquire their homes at different times and in different circumstances .
20 At best , it merely clarifies some aspects of the processes by which parties with different , even mutually conflicting , objectives manage to reach agreement both can live with .
21 We seek individuals who will develop and apply principles central to architectural design and its practice under different conditions of society and culture .
22 Brown & Levinson point out the importance for social relationships of establishing common ground and agreeing on points of view , and illustrate the lengths to which speakers in different cultures will go to maintain an appearance of agreement , and they remark ‘ agreement may also be stressed by repeating part or all of what the preceding speaker has said ’ ( 1978:117 )
23 Greenfield 's comparable studies and conclusions are related to her research into different groups of Wolof children in Senegal , namely : ‘ rural unschooled ’ , ‘ bush schooled ’ and those who attended westernised schools in the cosmopolitan capital , Dakar .
24 There was a manufacturing game , complete with factories in which units of different colors were made , roads and railways on which they were carried , and a stock market .
25 That we do not , in the process , undervalue the experience that is already available to us in our own schools and those around us — in particular there is a danger that we fail to make use of the managerial ability which all teachers constantly deploy with children , or that experience which schools in different age sections from our own can give us .
26 These very different characters were both ‘ at risk ’ in different ways because of the society they and we live in and their vulnerability in different areas : However , both are less ‘ at risk ’ than many because they are growing up loved and taught , ie given information rather than left ignorant and because there is some explanation of faith — relationship with God .
27 The volume of a board determines its buoyancy and , to some extent , its speed in different wind conditions .
28 Heads perceived their roles in different ways .
29 They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli …
30 some aspect of ‘ harmoniousness ’ between mother and child may pitch their descriptions at different levels .
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