Example sentences of "from [det] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a beginning , it may be said that the conception of a lexical unit which will be adopted here is not very different from that of a traditional lexicographer , although we shall try to be more explicit than lexicographers are wont to be . |
| 2 | He scouts Chapman 's explanation on the grounds that aerodynamic forces change the trajectory of the ball from that of a perfect parabola and that would ruin the results of calculation based on the tangent . |
| 3 | But more vexing still was why it should be that particular face , of all those in her memory 's catalogue , she 'd chosen to configure from that of a perfect stranger . |
| 4 | After all , one way of looking at it is that the job of the community worker is no different in kind from that of a revolutionary cadre . |
| 5 | To some extent local factors come into the situation — the fine-tuning , for a village in what was Wessex will be different from that of a similar place in the former Danelaw or Northumbrian areas . |
| 6 | They may find respectable society and lawful opportunities closed to them while unlawful ones are opened up ( custodial institutions are notoriously ‘ schools for crime ’ where offenders can meet each other , learn criminal techniques and enter into a criminal sub-culture ) , and their self-image may change from that of a law-abiding person to that of a deviant . |
| 7 | Since the late 1940s the Queen Mother had been the darling of National Hunt racing : it was largely her enthusiasm for the sport that raised its status from that of a poor relation to the Flat to , by the mid-1950s , a position of near equality — in popularity if not in the prize money available . |
| 8 | For the Moon C is not very different from that of a homogeneous sphere and indicates a very slight overall increase of density with depth . |
| 9 | We are very sympathetic to Auction purchases regardless of the somewhat daunting differences from that of a Private Treaty sale . |
| 10 | How , for example , might a sociologist 's account of ‘ reactions to child abuse ’ differ from that of a well-informed journalist ? |
| 11 | The political context for investors there has shifted from that of a favoured frontline position on the Western side of the Bamboo Curtain in the 1950s to that of an emergent player in a dynamic , economically important region in the 1980s . |
| 12 | Althusser therefore concludes that Marx 's concept of contradiction is inseparable from that of a social whole , and borrows a Freudian term to describe the relations between various states of affairs . |
| 13 | But in general the position of an alien in private law does not differ substantially from that of a British citizen . |
| 14 | It tends to run with a period different from that of a solar day ! |
| 15 | Nevertheless , despite the weaker Merseyside economy , MDC has undoubtedly succeeded in transforming the docklands ' image from that of a decaying twilight zone into a popular and fashionable urban environment . |
| 16 | initially the embryo of any other mammal ( such as a cat ) is hard to distinguish from that of a human being , and only later do the necessary differences appear — this would seem to reflect the processes involved in divergent evolution |
| 17 | Although a managing director will usually be an employee the courts sensibly view him in a different light from that of a manual worker . |
| 18 | A pregnant woman is very obviously a different shape from her non-pregnant sister , and the beauty of a young girl has quite another quality from that of a mature woman . |
| 19 | A child who had been taught to pray to a Mother in Heaven would have a religious life radically different from that of a Christian child . |
| 20 | The judge was therefore at fault in considering that there was no need for him to pay explicit regard to the public interest in freedom of expression guaranteed by article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ( 1953 ) ( Cmd. 8969 ) in seeking to resolve the uncertainty or ambiguity in the common law ; ( 7 ) in failing , as did Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case , to have proper regard to the public interest in freedom of expression and to the question of whether in a democratic society there really was a pressing social need to extend the ambit of the law of defamation to enable a governmental body to sue in respect of presumed ( and not actual ) injury to its governmental reputation ; ( 8 ) in failing to take into account the acceptance by the English courts of the fact that where a governmental plaintiff sought to invoke a private law right to interfere with freedom of discussion about the workings of government , the court 's approach would ( because of the competing public interests involved ) differ from that in a private dispute between citizen and citizen . |
| 21 | An Optional Procedure claim is identifiable because the conclusion is expressed in a different form from that in a normal action , requiring payment here of a specified sum ‘ or such other greater or smaller sums as to the Court shall seem proper ’ . |
| 22 | Capital accounting in a nationalized industry is in essence no different from that in a limited company . |
| 23 | Elsewhere I have argued that the whole fabric of a primary school curriculum in a socialist state like Tanzania will differ from that in a capitalist state like Kenya , for the different philosophies will affect not only selection of syllabus content but also languages of instruction , policy towards competition and examinations , links between school and community and above all the attitudes which teachers foster in the learners . |
| 24 | From this to a second fault was a further 30 fathoms , with good copper being worked above and below . |
| 25 | It is a matter of working at , responding to the detail , exploring the ‘ resonances ’ of the detail and moving from this to a full appreciation of the total effect . |
| 26 | A tech murmured incantations as he stroked the wires running from this to a bone-framed screen where runes and formulae flickered ; the man 's left hand had been replaced by a baroque prosthetic voltmeter with electrode claws . |
| 27 | Theodore does not emerge from this as a powerful man , indeed he is very much everybody else 's pawn . |
| 28 | In France , the Compagnie d ‘ Aménagement du Bas-Rhone Languedoc is a good example of an institution which , starting with primary responsibilities in the promotion of irrigation , has moved to foster marketing cooperatives and from these to a broader community approach . |
| 29 | And down a tight , twisty road it would disappear from either in a short order . |
| 30 | For this purpose a test may be used to discriminate those pupils who have attained a higher level from those at a lower level . |