Example sentences of "on a different " in BNC.

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1 Another book about the age of Dürer , but on a different topic , is The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany , by Michael Baxandall , published in 1980 .
2 She has done something , something on a different plane from making a toy church or pipping a social rival at the post or committing a mindless atrocity .
3 It is as if we were to pay family allowances to every third family on a different scale in each place .
4 One of his most vivid memories is of three separate groups of fedayeen , each situated on a different hill , singing to each other just before dawn ; it was a polyphony , ‘ a great improvisation performed among the mountains , in the midst of danger ’ , heedless of death , expressing and eliciting love ( pp. 36 — 40 ) .
5 He even made a number of slips and repetitions that on a different evening he would have been quick to reprimand in others .
6 A few men will not get the message during the flight , and will land believing themselves to be on a different drop zone .
7 It 's still not uncommon to meet people who declare that if one were seated in a Parisian cafe , rather than a British pub , then the conversation would be on a different level .
8 Lords of the manor would either flatten the encroaching village and build a new one some distance away , or build their new house on a different site in pastoral isolation .
9 In the 190s it seemed intolerable to the then bishop of Rome , Victor , that the churches in Asia Minor celebrated Easter on a different date , and to the distress of many he threatened excommunication on those who did not adopt the Roman date .
10 In such ways , the Führer image functioned , in integrating the potentially disintegrative forces within the Nazi Movement on a different plane among the Party ‘ faithful ’ than among the broad mass of ‘ non-organized ’ Germans , in mobilizing the boundless energy and misplaced idealism of the fanatics and activists through orientation towards long-term ‘ cosmic ’ and ‘ utopian ’ goals , and through offering legitimation for action undertaken against ideological and racial ‘ enemies of the State ’ .
11 Sit , they said , but he would n't This week John Major began to appear on a different kind of box .
12 The tournament then was under different sponsorship on a different date .
13 The tournament then was under different sponsorship on a different date .
14 Once acquired it is rarely lost , even in echinoderms like sea urchins that ( perhaps ) could also function on a different symmetry pattern .
15 Theology must somehow be playing on a different pitch , with revelation determining the rules and faith the outcome .
16 If you travel on a flight from another airport or at a different time , or on a different day , a flight supplement is often payable .
17 All that folklore about women operating on a different intellectual level because of their hormone differences would appear to have some basis in fact .
18 As Winston Churchill was to write on a different occasion , ‘ at first the steps were wide and shallow , covered with a carpet , but in the end the very stones crumbled under their feet . ’
19 Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor .
20 The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course .
21 Quite by chance , and while he was working on a different problem , an Australian psychiatrist , J. F. Cade , discovered that , in guinea pigs , lithium salts made the brain less excitable .
22 Successive Secretaries of State have stated that only by the unvarying observance of this practice is it possible to ensure that in no circumstances is anything said or not said which , by comparison with what was said on a different occasion , might imply that a warrant had or had not been issued .
23 Similarly you could try shortening the meeting , holding it on a different day or suspending it altogether for a few weeks .
24 The consultant engineer for the canal was William Jessop , and he suggested building flights of locks instead , to carry the canal over the hill , but James Barnes , the resident engineer , argued for starting a new tunnel on a different route , and in due course this was agreed .
25 The data are based on a different population than is seen in British clinics but it provides quantitation of the degree of obesity in practice .
26 Again and again I think of Vinoba Bhave 's words on a different aspect of Sanyasa .
27 Personal pensions work on a different principle from most occupational schemes or superannuation .
28 ‘ We think this depends above all on a different social structure in the villages of central and southern Italy .
29 Are we not perhaps condemned to periodical or non-periodical ‘ crises ’ on an inverted basis , on a different correlation between production and consumption ?
30 Examples of the finest artwork of a particular moment in time or place can give a false impression since they exclude reference to those living on a different level of existence .
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