Example sentences of "to different " in BNC.

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1 As a result , they were transferred to different prisons .
2 Whereas an opponent may be able to cope with a single technique , it is much more difficult when the attack is continuous , incorporating both linear and circular blows delivered to different , often widely separated targets .
3 Recent experiments on the psychophysiology of selective attention by , for example , Steven Hillyard at San Diego and Emanuel Donchin at Illinois have successfully related different endogenous components in the ERP to different stages in the process of selective attention .
4 Suppose a subject is listening to different sequences of sounds played independently to each ear through a pair of headphones in order to pick out and respond to a particular target sound .
5 Muller 's nineteenth-century ‘ doctrine of specific energies ’ formalized the ordinary observation that different sense organs are sensitive to different physical properties of the world and that when they are stimulated , sensations specific to those organs are experienced .
6 By working the pecs from different angles it is possible to direct the work-load to different parts of the muscle .
7 Roger Henderson , QC , the Bar 's public affairs spokesman , warned that the words used in the White Paper were open to different interpretations , but said : ‘ Lord Donaldson has plainly interpreted the White Paper on the basis that there has been a major change from the Green Paper . ’
8 ‘ It seems to me that a new play like Shadowlands needs to be exposed to different audiences before it settles down .
9 ‘ We would never let it become specialised , although , as children grow older , we 've got to move towards a middle school model , so there is specialised teaching in maths and humanities ; they actually go to different teachers for four complete sessions a week . ’
10 Smeed went on to argue that if drivers were charged for the delays they impose on one another , some of them would travel at different times , by different means or to different places — and that time wasted by everyone in jams would be reduced .
11 While making no overt concessions , he told lawyers and judges at the Middle Temple in London that discussions between a proposed advisory committee , the Law Society and senior judges ‘ may lead to different conclusions for different types of case , and most important of all , our conclusions may change in the light of experience ’ .
12 Surveys of response to different types of promotions .
13 Opinion on certain aspects of party and leader images was more polarized , on others more homogeneous ; and different aspects of images were subject to different influences .
14 In any case Marxism was broad enough to lend itself to different educational interpretations .
15 Recording contracts can be particularly complicated due to the different royalty rates and ‘ packaging deductions ’ which can be applied to different types of record , and to where it is sold , when it is sold , and in which cover it is presented .
16 At the same time the government did not push its reforms as far as some supporters wished ; it did not , for example , place the onus on union members to contract in rather than out of paying the political levy and has done little to break down national wage bargaining which pays little attention to different local labour market conditions .
17 For Pearce , with his strong belief in personal contacts , that has meant a lot of travel to different parts of the world .
18 To fish without a licence is illegal and anglers may pay up to £30 for training which covers everything from fish diseases to different kinds of aquatic weed .
19 All three combine the properties if high tensile modulus and low density , but to different degrees .
20 If sleep is taken at an unusual time , the changes associated with it ( the release of some hormones , the type of sleep ) will be affected to different extents depending on whether they are dominated by external factors or the body clock .
21 They constitute an assortment of ill-defined symptoms that affect people in different ways and to different extents .
22 I see no reason why this could not apply to different sizes of swimming pool . ’
23 ‘ After all , words like ‘ wispy ’ and ‘ short ’ mean different things to different people , ’ she said .
24 The two Germanys belong to different military blocs . ’
25 The danger is that there will be a careful selection both of members with primary allegiance to different and even hostile interests , and of officials preoccupied with their careers .
26 The others move to different premises , where nearly all of them are given degrees three years later .
27 Again , even though things do appear differently to different people , this is due to differences in the people , not to there being no reality behind the appearances .
28 The different performances of other clocks correspond to different mechanisms ; the differences in quality of different substances , the yellowness of gold , or the silvery colour of lead , similarly correspond to differences in the shape , size , arrangement , and state of motion of their corpuscles .
29 Its great merit is that it is not confined to particular activities , and therefore has an across-the-board application to different sources of endangerment .
30 That gives a box-shaped windrow which can be adjusted to different widths .
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