Example sentences of "[noun] vary from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opportunities for wives and children to contribute to the household income varied from place to place , though they were everywhere low paid . |
| 2 | These patterns varied from language to language , but only a limited number of such patterns seemed to occur , so that the same pattern of kinship terminology was found among totally unrelated peoples speaking totally unrelated languages . |
| 3 | Patterns varied from area to area , differed between industrial and rural areas , and between city and city , and a host of social factors have to be taken into account . |
| 4 | Of course , the response varied from council to council . |
| 5 | ‘ Many of the first colonies were built at the expense of societies the settlers did n't understand because their cultures varied from Earth basic , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Savings vary from job to job and company to company but , given that the system is installed for the right reasons , it should be possible to recover the hardware and software costs within two years . |
| 7 | As a result of these successes , the 30 km/h zone has become a widely used measure throughout the Netherlands , though styles vary from place to place . |
| 8 | The precise details and mechanics of long-firm fraud vary from case to case , and many are exceedingly complex . |
| 9 | Several studies , for example , show that policy outputs vary from authority to authority in a manner which is not simply related to differing resources or needs . |
| 10 | Teaching methods vary from subject to subject . |
| 11 | Nowadays methods vary from teacher to teacher , but in a typical lesson the pupil is likely to find himself lying , sitting or standing on a hard table while his teacher , using hands and voice , gently guides his head and gets him to release his neck and shoulders . |
| 12 | Again , the songs vary from group to group , but they also evolve over time . |
| 13 | The pupil/teacher ratio in maintained primary schools varies from country to country . |
| 14 | Practice varies from faculty to faculty : for example , mostfaculties will accept SCOTVEC modules when these are offered in combination with other school-leaving qualifications ; some will make offers on the basis of Ordinary or Higher National Certificates or Diplomas for entry to the first year of study , while the Faculty of Science and Engineering will in appropriate circumstances consider such qualifications as a basis for entry to the second year . |
| 15 | Over 30 years ago J H Sheldon , whose 'Social Medicine of Old Age' is still one of the most farsighted and compassionate reviews of the circumstances of older people , described old age as ‘ a quality of mind and body whose time or onset varies from individual to individual , rather than a mere quantity expressed by the term of duration applicable to all . ’ |
| 16 | You soon find that daylight varies from country to country , or even from one part of a country to another . |
| 17 | How much support and practical help you will get from your local Social Services Department varies from area to area , but everyone is at least entitled to one third of a pint of free milk each day for each child you mind . |
| 18 | All three cities are multicultural and multiethnic , though this is hard to capture in the statistics and the mix varies from city to city . |
| 19 | The popularity of different contraceptive methods varies from country to country . |
| 20 | The colour of the duns varies from dark to silvery pale dun , and in fact is dun rather than red which is the common recessive in the breed and which could suggest a link with Scandinavia , where dun was a common colour . |
| 21 | The successor republics have all adopted presidential-type systems , although the degree of power and authority inhering in the executive president varies from republic to republic and according to prevailing political conditions . |
| 22 | In practice the planning style will fall between these two extremes , with the degree of input from the planning department compared with the business units varying from company to company . |
| 23 | In 1972 a research paper by American scientists showed that the stable isotope ratios for oxygen and carbon in white marble varied from quarry to quarry , and more extensive research since then has confirmed that such measurements provide a ‘ signature ’ for the marble quarries of Italy , Greece and Turkey , which were the main sources of Classical marble . |
| 24 | The Abbot and over half the monks of Battle perished , eight of the thirteen canons of Mitchelham , most of the heads of religious houses , and up to half of the rest of the county 's population died within a few months , although the effects varied from community to community . |
| 25 | And where they were employed , their duties varied from place to place — some fulfilled judicial as well as financial functions , others might even have a military role . |
| 26 | The lord 's power to remove the inhabitants of a village varied from place to place . |
| 27 | Wages and conditions of work varied from firm to firm . |
| 28 | The constitution and composition of this committee vary from school to school , as does its relationship with other parts of the school 's bureaucracy ( curriculum and resource sub-committees , senior management team etc . ) . |
| 29 | The diet and therefore the isotopic composition analyses vary from region to region as well as from country to country , and this has important implications for policing the current ivory trade bans . |
| 30 | Alastair Fowler has argued that Williams and other critics have overstated this tendency and that the emphases on labour , hospitality , and architecture vary from poem to poem and over time . |