Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] different [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The areas chosen for the case studies — in Lombardy and Emilia — are intended to reflect very different patterns of modernisation ; the first , relatively slow and perhaps therefore politically stable ; the second , remarkably rapid and perhaps therefore producing class polarisation and a high level of political militance expressed through the passage from socialism to fascism , and then to communism .
2 This made it possible to group together different types of service ( InterCity 's identity was first established on this basis ) and look at their costs and revenues in a sensible manner .
3 To take examples from either side of the Atlantic , both Tom Peters ( 1988 ) and Charles Handy ( 1989 ) are beginning to suggest very different approaches to management , and interestingly they are approaches which reflect far more accurately the needs for collegiate management in schools .
4 So the first stage of identifying modern multimedia is to focus on its power to draw together different forms of communication , smoothly integrating them within a digital environment , and providing access to the stored information using computer systems which are fast , friendly and , above all , interactive .
5 On the one hand , there is certainly a resistance to change and to new ideas ; academics appear quite happy to continue teaching the same old syllabuses as if there had been no ‘ explosion ’ ( Dr P 's word ) in English studies ; at the same time , there is no resistance to allowing other people within the same department to teach quite different things to students , and to do quite different types of research .
6 The term ‘ participant observation ’ is commonly used to describe rather different sorts of research methods , and in the very diffuseness of methods used under this umbrella term there lies a danger .
7 These constraints were , of course , apparent when Partnerships were created in 1977 : attempts to bring together different tiers of government and different departments of either local or central administration have proved consistently complex to implement .
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