Example sentences of "a difference in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it does not always go by size but depends on the subject , as Foujita 's young girls cost much more , and the year in which it was painted makes a difference in price . |
| 2 | There is a difference in price of 4p a pound in poultry meat due to inspection charges . |
| 3 | But there 's quite a difference in price if you notice . |
| 4 | The thermistors form part of a Wheatstone bridge , and ΔT is recorded as a difference in resistance ΔR . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that dichotic listening techniques have often been adopted without proper validation , findings which show a difference in the direction and/or magnitude of ear asymmetry between groups of right and left ( or non-right ) handed subjects have been taken as indicating a difference in direction or magnitude of cerebral lateralisation . |
| 6 | As there is a difference in vapour pressure between the solution and the solvent drops , solvent from the vapour phase will condense on the solution drop causing its temperature to rise . |
| 7 | Analysis of the clinical findings in children referred for circumcision reported in this week 's journal suggests a difference in interpretation of symptoms and clinical signs between surgeons and general practitioners ( p 28 ) . |
| 8 | Between the Buid and the Christians there is a difference in outlook so profound that one might almost say that a state of permanent antagonism and hostility prevails between them . |
| 9 | A comparison using the log rank test showed a difference in survival times in patients with disease at various sites . |
| 10 | Think what a difference in cost there is between handling that bulk volume and the early morning milkie making his drop of a single pint on scattered doorsteps . |
| 11 | But the parties ' replies reveal a difference in emphasis rather than polarity : the green-is-moreprofitable school consisted of all but one of the Labour MPs and two-thirds of the Conservatives . |
| 12 | So really there 's only that item w w we felt that particular one was a bit er a bit steep and er the rest was er a a difference in emphasis , I would suspect , coupled with shortage of time |
| 13 | This may reflect a difference in emphasis in that parents seemed to be looking for information about their child 's overall character and behaviour ( eg ‘ good at sharing toys ’ ) whereas staff seemed to report specific good behaviour ( eg ‘ She 's done a lovely painting this morning ’ or ‘ He ate his dinner up nicely today ’ ) . |
| 14 | This difference is usually formulated in terms of a difference in knowledge ( pure as against applied , theoretical as against practical ) but it may be more accurate to see it as a difference of stance . |
| 15 | But between the practice of the two , the difference of degree is so great as to amount to a difference in kind . |
| 16 | But D'Oyly 's informant still insisted on a difference in kind as between transactions within the caste , that is with kin , and transactions with members of another caste , that is with non-kin . |
| 17 | In Aspinall v Sterling Mansell Ltd [ 1981 ] 3 All ER 866 it was said that there is a difference in kind between an ordinary medical examination and one involving experimenting or a diagnostic procedure . |
| 18 | All that is needed , then , is a difference in degree , not in type . |
| 19 | Lord Loreburn L.C. might well question whether there is really a difference in degree . |
| 20 | Is it a difference in receptor structure or is the variability imposed upon the receptor by the calcium content of the endoplasmic reticulum ? |
| 21 | The study had 90% power to detect a difference in heart rate of 6.5 beats/min according to our previous study . |
| 22 | But it could equally well be a consequence of a difference in difficulty between the two pre-training tasks . |
| 23 | If a difference in SMR had been found , then one of the explanations for this might have been a difference in performance between the two ICUs . |
| 24 | It 's not a difference in age ; it 's a difference in sex . |
| 25 | In one case changes were being proposed because the computer calculated a difference in response time of about five or six seconds , he claimed . |
| 26 | Although reports indicate that the Soviet Union has exclusive control over Cam Ranh Bay there remains a difference in size between it and the Soviet ‘ base ’ in Alexandria until 1972 or the American base in the Philippines . |
| 27 | Examination of the location of the cDNA by autoradiography illustrated that a difference in migration between uncomplexed cDNA ( lane 2 as control ) and the cDNA:RNA complex , which migrates at about the same rate as uncomplexed RNA , could be distinguished . |
| 28 | Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures . |
| 29 | Explain the problem if you must as a difference in approach to the job ; if you denigrate a previous boss the interviewer will assume that you will do the same thing next time around . |
| 30 | A comparison of the UK and USA also indicates a difference in function and use of fingerspelling . |