Example sentences of "different [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 • time-of-day tariff perhaps with several different charge bands applying to different times of day .
2 Anyone of a moderately sensitive disposition , who is not in the thrall of what Aldous Huxley termed their ‘ idiot monologue ’ of petty rigmarole , but who is sufficiently inwardly tranquil and open to the influence of the landscape , can not fail to be struck by the uncanny quality which the chalk ‘ breathes out ’ at different times of day under particular atmospheric conditions .
3 Children who perform differently at different times of day may be reacting to a changed quantity or quality of lighting level .
4 And , of course , there are very considerable differences in the proportion of people viewing at different times of day : in general , ITV ratings double between 5 pm and 8 pm , which is usually the peak viewing time .
5 Dexter had no idea why , except that the superintendent sometimes found it useful to revisit the scene of a crime alone and absorb its atmosphere at different times of day or night .
6 Different species often do not get a chance to interbreed because they live in different geographic areas , or in different localities within an area ( one species at the tops of trees , the other on the ground , for example ) , or they might be active at different times of day .
7 When there is a daily or seasonal pattern in demand , peak load pricing reflects the different short-run marginal costs of supplying different customers at different times of day or times of year .
8 Several Passifloraceae present pollen and nectar at different times of day and share the same pollinators , while certain nectar-less Bignoniaceous lianes mimic nectar producers , by flowering at the same time as , or just after , those that are pollinated .
9 Over the years our local support groups — Open Houses , New Mums , Mobile Mums and Mothers in Employment , have evolved according to different needs at different times of parents and children .
10 I also considered the number of claims made for visits by deputies before and after the 1990 contract and the ages of patients visited at different times of night .
11 Such behaviour may be practised by animals of any age , and at different times of year , and sometimes between the same sex , but does not always lead to mating .
12 The first is that the form which study skills development has typically taken in project schools is by no means at the radical end of the spectrum in terms of the different ideologies of education which we described in Chapter 3 .
13 This programme takes an entertaining look at the different ages of Northampton , from Medieval times , through the Industrial Revolution and Victorian era , to the present day .
14 A number of different rules of construction applicable to exclusion clauses have been identified , but it is probably safe to say that they are all really examples of the general rule that courts will interpret exclusion and similar clauses strictly , contra proferentem , or contrary to the interests of the party who drafted them — normally the person seeking to rely on them .
15 Why is it inefficient for different government departments to have different rules of thumb about the marginal value of human life ?
16 One of its central aims is to develop an empirically grounded understanding of the structure , form and operation of different rules of evidence and procedure , and to explore the relevance of such research for current policy debates about the relative merits of alternative methods of dispute settlement — particularly where these involve innovations aimed at making courts more ‘ informal ’ or accessible .
17 The European Court held that the existence of such different rules of company law in the member states precluded reliance by the UK company upon the right of establishment to transfer its central management and control to another member state .
18 These constraints were , of course , apparent when Partnerships were created in 1977 : attempts to bring together different tiers of government and different departments of either local or central administration have proved consistently complex to implement .
19 Different tiers of government refused to co-operate ; Liverpool City Council disbanded inner-city working parties and incorporated Urban Programme issues into mainstream committees ; and the Secretary of State steadily distanced himself from what he perceived to be a largely meaningless ‘ talking shop ’ .
20 The types of conflict between different tiers of government — so obvious in England throughout the 1980s — are , while far from unknown , less apparent .
21 But they offer three conflicting accounts of how different tiers of government operate .
22 The pattern of change over the 1970s and 1980s is similar if one considers different definitions of pay or broader classes of worker .
23 But there is yet one further narrowing of the meaning of STYLE to consider , and this brings us on to more controversial ground , where different definitions of style involve conflicting views of the use of language in literature .
24 What it means , of course , is that very often we have different definitions of experience and reality from men , and that much of what we say is critical of men and about what they have done to women .
25 There are many different definitions of leadership , but they do seem to have certain features in common and a useful general definition is that given by Kossen : ‘ Leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction . ’
26 ( 1990 ) ruled out differences in crime rate or detection rate or the use of different definitions of imprisonment .
27 Er this is clearly go going to become an important schedule and I think it you will inevitably run into difficulties here on different definitions of allocations for example .
28 Different definitions of charity for different purposes , for example , charity , tax , rating , would be very confusing .
29 Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades .
30 In what ways could such a display explore what ( and whose ) interests are at stake in the production and circulation of different definitions of design today ?
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