Example sentences of "took a different " in BNC.

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1 Roger Fry , in writing about Cézanne , took a different route .
2 Mr Justice Simon Brown said that shortly before the tribunal came to its decision in this case a tribunal chaired by Professor Jackson took a different approach in a similar case , Syed Jabar Hussain Shah .
3 In 1987 , the Howarth Bill took a different route , proposing to add an alternative test based on whether or not the work in question was ‘ grossly offensive to a reasonable person ’ .
4 They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn .
5 The House of Lords , however , took a different view .
6 Geraldine Pederson-Krag , in a paper written in 1951 , took a different stance from her psychoanalytic contemporaries when she analysed the system of mass production .
7 The backlash within the majority population took a different path .
8 They took a different view , however , and told him he would n't get a penny .
9 But Lord Justice Roskill , Lord Justice Lawton and Mr Justice Wien , who were hearing the appeal , took a different view : ‘ Each of us watched him closely while he was giving his evidence .
10 There they took a different path from the High Elves and wandered far from the mainstream of Elf culture , declaring themselves independent of the Phoenix Throne .
11 Liverpool Health Authority took a different approach .
12 Because , no doubt , of the different structure of the population in Scotland , the Wheatley Commission took a different view .
13 Later cases took a different approach : starting from the assumption that the Convention was or could be time-consuming and expensive , a number of courts held that the party wanting to ‘ impose ’ the use of those procedures must show good cause .
14 He frowned at this suspected future injustice , but the next moment he remembered the siege and the fact that there was every chance that he would not live to suffer the humiliations of old age , and his thoughts promptly took a different line : " After so many hardships , how sad to be deprived of the tranquil evening of one 's life ! "
15 A little outside Saint-Jean to the north-east , in fact , near the village of Ostabat , three of the main pilgrim routes across France met up , to advance as one towards the mountain passes , so that through Saint-Jean there went the pilgrims who had travelled from Paris , from Vézelay in Burgundy , and from Le Puy and Conques further to the south ; only those who had come through Provence took a different route into Spain , over the Col du Somport .
16 In these circumstances it can fairly be said that there was no medical evidence favouring such ventilation , although it was clearly possible that within the paediatric medical speciality some consultant of repute could be found who took a different view .
17 The guardian ad litem took a different view .
18 But Harold Wilson and the government took a different view .
19 But Mr Sexton took a different view of Mr Motion 's intentions from the others : ‘ His biography is clear , detailed and illuminating .
20 Leibniz took a different route and looked for clues to particularity within the monads themselves , but the only " criterion " he was able to produce was his " principle of indiscernibles " , and eventually he was forced to introduce the additional metaphysical postulate of " sufficient reason " in order to safeguard the existential uniqueness of his monads .
21 Even in the United States there was a considerable change : in 1984 about 60 per cent of Americans thought of the USSR as an ‘ evil empire ’ , according to the Los Angeles Times , but by late 1987 nearly 70 per cent took a different view .
22 Where Johnson exercised great prudence in his remarks , both in his own text and in his letters to Mrs Thrale , Boswell took a different line ; having concluded his great notation of Flora Macdonald 's exciting tale , Boswell summarised that for all the Highlanders ’ dedication to the Stuart Cause , he ‘ found every where among them a high opinion of the virtues of the King now upon the throne , and an honest disposition to be faithful subjects to his majesty … ’
23 Amy , 42 , took a different tack when she found that Joe had been leading a double life for 18 months , holed up with a ravishing ex-model 15 years her junior while she believed he was ‘ opening up new markets ’ in Middle Europe .
24 After Jordanhill , his career trajectory took a different path to most when he decided to join the Colonial Education Service in what was then Northern Rhodesia , now Zambia .
25 In adapting Doolittle 's theory for low-molecular weight liquids to the case of very high molecular weight polymers , Williams , Landel & Ferry ( 1955 ) took a different definition of the fractional free volume defining it as where is the fractional free volume at a reference temperature is a coefficient of expansion of free volume .
26 Margaret took a different view of the situation .
27 Eva took a different line .
28 In the remainder of the region now comprising East and West Germany Gothic development took a different form from that encountered in France , England and Belgium .
29 The minority took a different view of the convention , and their conclusions about the implicit extension were correspondingly different .
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