Example sentences of "different [noun] to the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All religions , according to Gandhi , are different roads to the same goal and it is his contention that there will always be a variety of religions corresponding to different human temperaments and environments . |
| 2 | A man brandishing a sword 100 feet away , preferably on the far side of a river , is a very different experience to the same man brandishing the same sword just 10 feet away . |
| 3 | So , the network can simultaneously represent a single reader 's conception of nine different texts , or nine readers ' different reactions to the same text . |
| 4 | As we all know from personal experience , intellect will often come up with two very different solutions to the same problem in two different individuals , or even in the same individual on two different occasions . |
| 5 | The eclecticism of the mid-nineteenth-century architects was of two types : either they applied different styles to different buildings , as did Burn or the Barrys , or they applied motifs derived from different styles to the same building and so produced an original design . |
| 6 | It had become clear to the garrison that not only did the doctors sometimes apply different remedies to the same illness , in certain cases these remedies were diametrically opposed to each other . |
| 7 | This need not be a problem , especially as each will have a different approach to the same material , but it makes obvious sense on many counts if the teachers are each prepared for this by consultation . ) |
| 8 | Erm , we 've got several different answers to the same thing . |
| 9 | As far as I was concerned , that merely represented a different path to the same goal and so on 22 June I told the House of Commons that rail electrification was going ahead . |
| 10 | Sometimes it helps to produce two or three alternative structures , embodying quite different approaches to the same material . |
| 11 | d ) If , at some point , a program can output several different expressions on the same channel , or assign several different expressions to the same variable , some subtle difficulties appear . |
| 12 | However , this reduction of different verbs to the same primitive does have its disadvantages , as information may be lost ( as in the case of ’ joke ’ , ’ say ’ and ’ preach ’ all being reduced to MTRANS ) . |