Example sentences of "[verb] for a [adv] different [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	Eugenists argued for a quite different understanding of how norms and averages were to be calculated .
2	Terry Empson , director-general of the Historic Housing Association , said Althorp was not only virtually impossible to value but almost certainly unsaleable : ‘ Nobody in their right minds would want a ducal palace designed for an entirely different age .
3	The dilemma facing Ray Gasson , is that after decades of being encouraged to expand and produce more , the message from Brussels now is to cut down production , while environmentalists are pressing for a completely different approach to farming .
4	British trade unionists have therefore been pushing for a slightly different wording that European Works Council Representatives should be elected by current workers ' representatives wherever they exist .
5	Larger family size alone usually made for a very different situation from that of a grandchild brought up alone by a grandparent today .
6	Bukharin , since he was writing for a somewhat different purpose — at that point in his exposition — did not assume or leave implicit the equilibrium between society and nature , but instead desired to show that it is a necessary basis , precondition , for the situation that Marx dealt with .
7	As I seem to remember telling you yesterday , I design for a totally different market from G.W. Fashions . ’
8	To be here as his special guest , she thought , wanted , invited for a totally different reason ; how must that feel ?
9	Intra-medium decisions — where to put the ads within a chosen medium or media group — allow for a rather different form of judgement , and have available rather more coherent research standards .
10	The notion of a learned non-correlation fails for a rather different reason — it can accommodate the facts but largely because it attempts little more than a redescription of the facts to be explained .

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