Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 2 | It was all very well for the intellectuals to associate the movies with the mindless masses , but the masses who went to cinemas in the 1920s were rather different from the masses who had so enthused about films twenty years earlier . |
| 3 | In a letter to members of the Lilley Group Retirement Benefits Plan , Allan Martin , a director of Hymans Robertson Trustees , which was recently appointed by the receiver as an independent trustee of the plan , said its assets were totally separate from the assets of Lilley plc . |
| 4 | Finding the institutional means to strike at the slave trade and slavery internationally posed even greater difficulties for those abolitionists of Joseph Sturge 's generation who were more distant from the centres of political power in Britain . |
| 5 | Cimetidine treated xenografts were also significant from the controls ( p= 0.048 ) but cimetidine and histamine treated xenografts were not . |
| 6 | Their significance was enhanced by the fact that they were often far from the towns whose names they bore . |
| 7 | All these impositions , legitimate and illegitimate , oppressed the clergy , but their burden and the king 's gain were far greater from the subsidies granted in convocation . |
| 8 | A MANOVA was performed , which allows serial measurements to be analysed , and xenografts treated with the histamine concentrations of 1 mgkg - 1 were significantly different from the controls ( p=0.008 ) whereas xenografts treated with histamine concentrations of 0.1 and 10 mgkg - 1 were not . |
| 9 | Analysis of the data by an analysis of variance for growth showed that the treatment groups were significantly different from the controls ( p<0.001 ) and that there was a treatment with time interaction — that is , the rate of growth was not the same for all treatments ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 10 | The kinds of people who were most aware of public opinion polls in the closing stages of the campaign were very different from the kinds of people who were most aware of them in the mid-term ( Table 7.6 ) . |
| 11 | The kinds of people who were aware of public opinion polls in the closing stages of the campaign were very different from the kinds of people who followed them in the mid-term . |
| 12 | The sober intentions of his book were very different from the novels , plays and films which have created a mythical figure in modern culture of the artist as isolated and neglected , recognised only after his death , and whom the phrase ‘ genius and madness are near aligned ’ seems to fit . |