Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [prep] a different [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With two votes West Germans are in a different position , even though their first vote may not be of any use . |
| 2 | Though he dismisses the tag of dreamer , the scale of his plans are on a different planet . |
| 3 | Each time the game is played the animals are in a different position on the screen . |
| 4 | Dreamer spoke to her , but the words were in a different voice from the boy 's . |
| 5 | For example , the first vowel in the following English words is of a different quality when it is stressed than when it is unstressed : convert , progress , transfer . |
| 6 | Electoral alliances were not favoured in the Party , and the radicalism of local Labour Parties was of a different character from Liberal radicalism . |
| 7 | … as you can not reason concerning colours if you have no natural sight — because all the ideas received by your senses are of a different kind … so you can not reason concerning spiritual things if you have no spiritual sight , because all your ideas received by your outward senses are of a different kind … |
| 8 | … as you can not reason concerning colours if you have no natural sight — because all the ideas received by your senses are of a different kind … so you can not reason concerning spiritual things if you have no spiritual sight , because all your ideas received by your outward senses are of a different kind … |
| 9 | English cricket does not have this capacity for internal strife in the same way , the periodic Yorkshire blood-lettings being of a different order ; but West Indian cricket has grown strong precisely because it has risen above its problems , and on that basis England can not find the same sort of strength since they do not have the same problems to overcome . |
| 10 | Coming home to the lesbian in me , my joys and fears were of a different nature from those posed by continually having to straddle the mutually hostile worlds of lesbianism and heterosexuality . |
| 11 | In fact , what we have witnessed has been the spectacle of governments running so hard to get away from this concept that they have been unable to hear the voice of the British business community , pleading that the interest it would like the government to show in its affairs is of a different nature altogether . |
| 12 | He implies that the psychic gifts are of a different order than other gifts , when he warns , |
| 13 | On this basis the specific assumptions that were made for giving an attention focusing interpretation of the recognition results were that the types of risk present at generally dangerous junctions are of a different order to those at generally safe junctions . |
| 14 | Erm from you from your experience in the , the negotiating of that , that kind of er deal and just from what you saw of it working in factories , er do you think that management quite explicitly sought to , to create some division or was the division that arose wh you 're talking about the fitters being on a different scheme from the other members of the workforce ? |
| 15 | Here the parachutes are of a different design , less easily guided and the team land on or as near they can to a four hundred metre line from two thousand feet . |
| 16 | It later occurred to me that almost every one of the board members was of a different nationality . |
| 17 | In a New Zealand decision , it was held that the police are in a different position , so that the associate of the police ‘ victim ’ was guilty of assaulting the police in the execution of their duty , even though , viz-à-viz the victim they were acting outside the execution of their duty . |
| 18 | Here the external economies were of a different form and the location , of course , is today no longer in the inner city . |
| 19 | Although the delay in criminal cases is of a different order of magnitude , it still gives rise to concern . |
| 20 | In this instance , self-citations to theses are of a different nature to self-citations of published papers . |
| 21 | Discrimination against women is of a different type , for whereas racial discrimination usually comes from slang usage , sexual discrimination is present in the formal structure of our language . |
| 22 | When he was only nineteen , a copy of the Gospel of St John that he had prepared , in which each of the twenty-one chapters was in a different language , was shown to the King . |
| 23 | If so , maternal antibodies would probably have mopped up the NFEs before their analysis , suggesting that the analysed cells are of a different type . |
| 24 | The true pastoralists , such as the Fulani , the Dinka of southern Sudan and the Masai of the east African plains were in a different category . |