Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 2 | It was all very well for the intellectuals to associate the movies with the mindless masses , but the masses who went to cinemas in the 1920s were rather different from the masses who had so enthused about films twenty years earlier . |
| 3 | In a letter to members of the Lilley Group Retirement Benefits Plan , Allan Martin , a director of Hymans Robertson Trustees , which was recently appointed by the receiver as an independent trustee of the plan , said its assets were totally separate from the assets of Lilley plc . |
| 4 | Finding the institutional means to strike at the slave trade and slavery internationally posed even greater difficulties for those abolitionists of Joseph Sturge 's generation who were more distant from the centres of political power in Britain . |
| 5 | Cimetidine treated xenografts were also significant from the controls ( p= 0.048 ) but cimetidine and histamine treated xenografts were not . |
| 6 | Their significance was enhanced by the fact that they were often far from the towns whose names they bore . |
| 7 | All these impositions , legitimate and illegitimate , oppressed the clergy , but their burden and the king 's gain were far greater from the subsidies granted in convocation . |
| 8 | A MANOVA was performed , which allows serial measurements to be analysed , and xenografts treated with the histamine concentrations of 1 mgkg - 1 were significantly different from the controls ( p=0.008 ) whereas xenografts treated with histamine concentrations of 0.1 and 10 mgkg - 1 were not . |
| 9 | Analysis of the data by an analysis of variance for growth showed that the treatment groups were significantly different from the controls ( p<0.001 ) and that there was a treatment with time interaction — that is , the rate of growth was not the same for all treatments ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 10 | The kinds of people who were most aware of public opinion polls in the closing stages of the campaign were very different from the kinds of people who were most aware of them in the mid-term ( Table 7.6 ) . |
| 11 | The kinds of people who were aware of public opinion polls in the closing stages of the campaign were very different from the kinds of people who followed them in the mid-term . |
| 12 | The sober intentions of his book were very different from the novels , plays and films which have created a mythical figure in modern culture of the artist as isolated and neglected , recognised only after his death , and whom the phrase ‘ genius and madness are near aligned ’ seems to fit . |
| 13 | In fact , with the exception of the occasional exotic demand , such as orchids from Singapore for Elena , Marin 's job was little different from the agents of the other communist élites placed in Western Europe to provide the videotape recorders and other appurtenances of power for the nomenklatura from East Berlin to Moscow and beyond . |
| 14 | This was little different from the responses provided by younger age groups . |
| 15 | It was arranged that they would take the horses down to the railway sidings where there was enough light from the warehouses to school in the evenings , and Biddy would come twice during the week and once at the weekend , for two hours each time . |
| 16 | It was so different from the rooms Xanthe and her father had taken in a former hôtel particulier of a family of the ancien régime , round a courtyard off the Rue St Honoré , with ormolu chests of drawers , lace-trimmed bolsters and a chiming clock on the writing desk in the small , light sitting room where stood striped chintz chairs with gilded lyre backs and a matching silk-covered settee . |
| 17 | The strict anti-reformist line resulting from the ninth plenum was largely absent from the resolutions of the 10th plenum held in December 1990 . |
| 18 | Apart from her shortness she was hardly distinguishable from the others , except for the largeness of her green eyes . |
| 19 | In the interval much had happened to Marx and he was by then an exile in London in a place and a situation where inevitably he was more remote from the centres of political action . |
| 20 | She would have left the door open and the landing light on so that she was clearly visible from the stairs . |
| 21 | He was slightly different from the others , Isabel saw , watching him with apprehensive eyes . |
| 22 | These holy men , whose sanctity was often clear from the miracles which God had allowed them to perform in life , had in death entered his presence . |
| 23 | It was perfectly obvious from the accounts that the company was in deep trouble . |
| 24 | It was the only maisonette in the block but was otherwise indistinguishable from the flats , with their mean windows and small , badly proportioned rooms . |
| 25 | The Labour Party , dominated by the free trade philosophy of Philip Snowden , offered more of the same and was barely distinguishable from the Conservatives in the economic policies they offered — except for the Conservative Party 's references to ‘ safe-guarding of industry , ’ a code-phrase for selective protectionism . |
| 26 | Relatively little detail was actually available from the recalls and the between subjects variability was extremely large . |
| 27 | Er not not particularly apart from that er that the the s the support from from the Party in general wa was very poor from the members in general was relatively poor . |
| 28 | Radicalism , however , was very far from the thoughts of the Secret Committee on the Peasant Question . |
| 29 | His style was very different from the others but like Cagney he was a very intelligent actor with strong views and sound business instincts with regard to the films that he should make . |
| 30 | His next kiss was very different from the ones that had gone before — swift , fierce and possessive , as if he were claiming back something that had always belonged to him . |