Example sentences of "be [v-ing] different " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the few studies that have taken account of gender suggest that Afro-Caribbean girls are achieving higher levels than boys at school level , partly because they are pursuing different strategies , which are necessary in order to survive in the context of high unemployment and low wages for black male workers ( Fuller , 1983 ; see also Riley , 1986 ; Driver , 1977 ) . |
| 2 | Those faces are looking different , more mature . |
| 3 | why you know what I do n't know what 's changed in the meantime or whether we 're paying different rates or whatever , but if you take the material that we were getting in two three years ago when first time I was involved , it 's just absolutely nothing like . |
| 4 | which is to achieve greater equality but you 're having different means to achieve that . |
| 5 | So in a way yo you 're doing different hours and all so your pay , was that based on forty hour week ? |
| 6 | It 's OK if you 're playing the same lines over and over again to thicken up the sound but if you 're playing different lines within the song as overdubs I often use different guitars to achieve different effects . ’ |
| 7 | The sender and the receiver are speaking different languages . |
| 8 | We can look at the relationship between perceptions of paper bias and the electors ' own partisanship amongst ‘ readers of right-wing papers ’ , though it has to be remembered that different Voters are Evaluating different individual papers . |
| 9 | In a Chinese phrase , they are in one bed , but they are having different dreams . |
| 10 | Thirdly , it is not only that the approaches give different ‘ answers ’ , it is also that they are asking different questions . |
| 11 | In the Edinburgh area at the moment there are several organisations very willing and enthusiastic to pay for and carry out much-needed upgrading of the Union Canal towpath , but it appears that different departments of BW are giving different reactions . |
| 12 | If you removed all the he saids and she saids from the writing above you would still know who was saying what because Nicolas and Bridget are doing different things . |
| 13 | You have the sense that , from now on , you 'll be travelling on a different line , you 'll be seeing different views through the window . |
| 14 | The government 's Drinking Water Inspectorate suspects that Britain 's 39 water companies may be adopting different standards when it comes to reporting pollution incidents which threaten the safety of domestic supplies . |
| 15 | Thus , while all three publishers will be publishing different novelisation titles based on the series , the publication rights for annuals and calendars ( which are more akin to merchandise than books ) went to BBC Enterprises . |
| 16 | A profoundly deaf therapist said : ‘ I do feel that if I did n't have this type of job where I 'm meeting different people every day I would withdraw very quickly into myself . ’ |
| 17 | The fact that the cortex consists of two hemispheres which may be doing different things has particularly excited writers in recent years . |
| 18 | I 'm doing different things here all the time ! ’ |
| 19 | In more recent times , Luciano Berio has used the same technique in his Sinfonia , Labirintus H , and electronic works , so that we seem to be hearing different music — symphonic , jazz , military , vocal , etc. — as if radios were tuned to different stations and the music merging , conflicting , and changing . |
| 20 | If he is to continue , he should now be taking different movements and linking them together to form his fighting style — a format of defence and attack that becomes second nature to him . |
| 21 | Cattle would be carrying different CIDs , depending on what premium has already been claimed . |
| 22 | The parents may be trying different techniques , coaxing and offering a wide variety of foods . |
| 23 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 24 | we may expect continuations to have to do with plumbing , in which the plumber is offering advice to Mary , and so they are playing different roles . |
| 25 | Because the authors were using different types of data , it is quite possible that they have seen different dimensions of an essentially complex process . |
| 26 | To imagine what a girl 's prospects actually were , we should bear in mind three by now well-established points about the employment of women in general : by and large women were doing different work from men of similar age and class ; women were concentrated in unskilled and low-paid jobs ; and a majority of women in paid work were young and unmarried . |
| 27 | And erm the I , I ca n't remember er oh I think most of the work up there that I was on , we were doing different jobs in the mill , like er when very too when the mills were closed at the holidays , we , we used to go up and work in some of the mills . |
| 28 | But Conservative and Labour partisans who disagreed about the bias in their daily papers were reading different papers . |
| 29 | Notions of law and morality seemed to be so far apart that the two sides were talking different languages . |
| 30 | Thousands of flags were waving , helium balloons were going up and air balloons were coming down , two separate bands at both ends of the huge auditorium were playing different songs and everyone was cheering and screaming their heads off . |