Example sentences of "be different " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then I am different . ’ |
| 2 | I am suffering persecution because I am different . |
| 3 | Would the outcome have been different had he acknowledged to himself what he was doing ? he wrote . |
| 4 | You 'd have been born in Ireland if things , history and all had been different . ’ |
| 5 | She had been different from her brother and from his friends who used to visit , make themselves at home in my clean room , on the clean bed , delighted to find a video and a cassette recorder and cassettes , who ate my nice food and listened to loud music and swallowed the drink they brought with them . |
| 6 | If Pound had been different … ? |
| 7 | Mr Lightman claimed that if the jury which had awarded the £600,000 had known that Mrs Sutcliffe was not adverse to taking money for her story , the outcome could have been different . |
| 8 | The specific policies and rhetoric have been different as the occasion demanded . |
| 9 | Would it have been different under a Labour government ? |
| 10 | At this level of causation the outcome with a different personality at No. 10 would have been different ; but is that historical reality ? |
| 11 | A number of Cabinet colleagues had doubts about all these policies and many would acknowledge that things would have been different without her . |
| 12 | Their Italian holiday had been different , a tiny golden time , snatched out of nowhere and more than either of them deserved . |
| 13 | Because Marx never did write this anthropological work , it is futile to speculate too much on how his position would have been different from that of Engels . |
| 14 | Been different if he was one of your upper crust . |
| 15 | Inside it had been different . |
| 16 | There would have been different levels of accreditation according to competence , but each level ( Crown , High Court , Appeal Court ) would have been open to both solicitors and barristers . |
| 17 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 18 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 19 | Ever since Tug opened his eyes and saw Doyle in front of the door , things had been different from the other mornings . |
| 20 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 21 | If that one horse had been Milton , it would have been different , of course . ’ |
| 22 | Every time he had been led through the house previously , it had been different . |
| 23 | Clearly their views may have been different from those of the people who died , but respondents are likely to have taken into account the reactions of their relatives and friends , and how these respondents felt about the care in the homes is also of interest and concern . |
| 24 | Had circumstances been different , I should probably have travelled in Europe during my university days . |
| 25 | Had the 6th edition been available to him , the whole evolution of homœopathy would surely have been different . |
| 26 | Things may have been different under another Minister , or under the same one in happier and healthier days , but it seems doubtful . |
| 27 | The two men met in Toledo in the spring of 1087 and with the exception of El Cid 's old enemies , there was general rejoicing from those who believed that if Rodrigo had commanded the army at Sagrajas the outcome would have been different . |
| 28 | But would it have been different if Mrs Thatcher had had a spell on income support ? or if she had ever lugged a buggy , baby , toddler and bags of shopping on and off her infrequent , deregulated buses ? |
| 29 | A female employee was offensively treated by two male colleagues , but at first her claim was rejected because the industrial tribunal felt that , had she been a man , she would still have been harassed , although the specific nature of the unpleasantness might have been different . |
| 30 | If he had been associated with a major electric manufacturer it could have been different , but his character was too individualistic . |