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

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1 The law , now in section 6 of the ERA 1988 , still requires all pupils to take part in an act of collective worship ; however , there may be a single act for all pupils or separate acts for different groups of pupils .
2 But it is more likely that , while they provide reasons for different things , they share the same basic structure .
3 The board of the vendor company also has a duty to deal fairly between all shareholders of the same class , although it does not need to treat them exactly the same if there are particular reasons for different treatment , as in the case of regulatory or exchange control requirements applying to overseas shareholders .
4 The politicians in Washington are there to fight for their state and the conflicts in Washington are not conflicts between , so much between the states and the federal government , as conflicts between the states for different advantages .
5 This comes about , he suggests , for three reasons : there is frequent movement of personnel between different posts ; the supervision and direction of a complex set of machinery encourages the multi-functional use of individuals ; and there is an increase in the use of shift work .
6 It has also been very difficult indeed to establish any reliable differences in sleep profiles between different sorts of people — men versus women , the extroverted versus the introverted or the intelligent versus the unintelligent .
7 In order to ensure the supply of food to these markets the government established buying agencies at a national level and prohibited the transport of agricultural products between different provinces without official authorisation .
8 Here we were on swings in small parks , our hair that had been blonded by the African sun now turning dark , as if another person was emerging , slowly , day by day , and with it our accents changed too , so that we spoke in multiple mangled voices as we moved endlessly , six times , seven times , eight , nine times through different versions of Englishness .
9 This would be true , for instance , of the trading that took place in pre-colonial times between different tribes of Australian Aborigines , and there are many other examples .
10 We have noted that a male community defends a group territory and the outcome of aggressive interactions between different communities is known to be in part dependent upon party size .
11 An example of environmental modelling and prediction where the interactions between different processes and dynamic feedback is taken into account is given by Haber and Schaller ( 1988 ) .
12 The foregoing explains a powerful method of analysis and assessment that the NRC requires to be carried out on a variety of systems within the PWR plant , such as the emergency feedwater system , ECCS injection and recirculation , containment cooling , actuation of safety features , the auxiliary systems on which these depend , for example the AC and DC supplies and essential service water and cooling systems , and they must allow for possible interactions between different parts of the overall system .
13 THE co-ordinated function of effector and accessory cells in the immune system is assisted by adhesion molecules on the cell surface that stabilize interactions between different cell types .
14 The final shape of the whole body , the size of its limbs , the wiring up of its brain , the timing of its behaviour patterns , are all the indirect consequences of interactions between different kinds of cells , whose differences in their turn arise through different genes being read .
15 I mean , we 're not , erm , we 're just simplifying a very complex situation , and in fact , probably large numbers of genes are , are involved , and they 're , there are probably complex interactions between different sorts of altruism. kin altruism will certainly function within families for reasons that we 've just been looking at , but this will also be a fertile and erm , encouraging er , framework for sibling altruism .
16 Any attempt to appreciate the political significance of uneven development must surely undertake the study of the complex interactions between different kinds of social relations in different localities .
17 We also felt that the interactions between different sources of knowledge was still far from clear .
18 Psychological studies ( e.g. Marslen-Wilson & Tyler 1980 ) have shown very close interactions between different types of linguistic knowledge in speech decoding , though the nature of these interactions is still obscure .
19 Figure 4.3 Financial policies for different parts of the McKinsey-GE matrix
20 Plans for different groups
21 Reorganizing the lay-out of the production process can therefore permit the much greater automation of final assembly processes if robots , for example , can be programmed to perform different operations for different models almost to the exact moment the components arrive .
22 ‘ By creating structured programmes for different types of levels of staff ’ .
23 The business of getting and staying fit has become a complicated science and a lot of time spent working out specific programmes for different training phases during the year .
24 In classical literature , certain fairies acted as guardians for different gods .
25 A multiplicity of jurisdictions , dependent in part on where one lived , meant that a man might be subject to different courts for different reasons .
26 A multimethod approach to evaluating GIS maps for different users
27 The figures for wastage rates between levels of education reproduce much the same patterns between different regions and between the sexes .
28 The suit had to be practical , which in practice meant seven different suits for different functions ( some worn mainly by stuntmen ) and two more for his damaged appearance at the end .
29 ‘ Computer will choose planets for different animals , ’ it said .
30 Words however are only symbols and they can have different meanings for different people .
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