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

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1 They concluded that there were a number of rather different sorts of town and city in Britain with dramatically varying levels of high-status jobs , social-welfare and educational provision .
2 The Mendeleev Table appeared at first sight to conclude the study of the atomic theory by setting a limit to the existence of fundamentally different kinds of matter .
3 Such examples suggest a strong case for claiming that the existence of deeply different forms of life constitutes a formidable barrier to a theory of international relations .
4 He agreed with Coningham 's protest against Gothic : ‘ it is going back to the barbarism of the dark ages ’ , and he could not see why all the buildings in the area should be the same style , as the ‘ neighbourhood of Downing Street is full of buildings of totally different styles of architecture ’ .
5 The CRE organised a series of three seminars in order to bring together people of very different points of view and evolve a broad consensus on some of the large issues raised by the Rushdie affair .
6 Providing the necessary care is obviously problematic — and for a number of very different kinds of reason .
7 The variant homodimeric and heterodimeric isoenzymes arising from these subunits exhibit widely different kinetic propoerties with correspondingly different rates of alcohol oxidation in vitro .
8 The almost infinitely variable situations that can occur illustrate the need for different types of investigation , with correspondingly different degrees of effort involved .
9 Yes , I was there erm and saw them working , and I think you were looking fairly amazed that the answer came out to be almost the correct answer on several occasions , with quite different bits of apparatus .
10 What we have shown in this section is that the contextual features suggested by Hymes , supplemented with the index of co-ordinates proposed by Lewis ( put forward , remember , with quite different purposes in mind ) do enable us to give a partial account of what the undifferentiated term ‘ context ’ may mean .
11 Even states with very different forms of life and different moral world views do in fact behave in similar ways .
12 Finally , suppose that the upstream firm 's product has two uses with very different elasticities of demand .
13 The result of all this is that there are two subsets of /Ε/; with very different potentials for variation .
14 The point is that they examine such areas with very different specifications in mind to , say , the sociologist , the historian or the political scientist .
15 The language of science overlaps with that of ordinary life , but words like ‘ field ’ , ‘ elementary ’ and ‘ family ’ came to be used in the later nineteenth century in rather different senses in physics , chemistry and biology .
16 They come from totally different circumstances at home and the school does n't fit in with these . ’
17 One of the ways in which the seemingly enormous differences between the ideas of Skinner and Chomsky may be reconciled is to recognise that , to a great extent , they were interested in quite different aspects of language .
18 Our approaches were from very different angles in time and geography but almost identical in impression .
19 The first event of 1993 is again fortunate to have secured three leading figures from very different fields of endeavour .
20 There are totally different class relationships , leading to totally different forms of society : ancient , feudal and capitalist .
21 With continuing deposition the nature of the plant cover slowly changes , as various species are adapted to slightly different conditions of flooding .
22 At any given age a child might be on quite different levels for difference subjects .
23 There are good grounds for thinking that to a significant degree home and foreign capital markets were separate and gave rise to quite different levels of investment expectations .
24 It may be that these portfolios both have the same level of expected return but the APT points out they are subject to very different types of risk .
25 The two approaches to discourse which we have considered in 4 may seem irreconcilable and applicable to very different kinds of interaction .
26 For , evidence suggests that the CMHT model is being seen as appropriate for quite different areas of service development .
27 They could nonetheless claim with justice that if these topics were handled in isolation from each other , by specialists in Educational Psychology , in various methodologies , in literacy , or in English as a Foreign Language , nobody except the student herself was in a position to discern a relationship between and among topics taught by different people , at different stages of her course , and at extremely different levels of sophistication .
28 The bodies all appeared to be at slightly different stages of decomposition ; the one before them now looked to be the most recent of them all .
29 One of the drawbacks of A level is that because it is an examination to be taken at a particular time , namely after two years of study in the sixth form ( there are exceptions to this , but such is the general rule ) it is taken by people who are at very different stages of development , of readiness for the examination , and , above all , of interest in the subject matter .
30 Schools seemed to be at very different stages of development and sophistication here , with some proposals incorporating details of taxonomies of the skills to be developed , while others made general statements of intent about ill-defined programmes of study or library skills .
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