Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In fact , with the exception of the occasional exotic demand , such as orchids from Singapore for Elena , Marin 's job was little different from the agents of the other communist élites placed in Western Europe to provide the videotape recorders and other appurtenances of power for the nomenklatura from East Berlin to Moscow and beyond . |
2 | This was little different from the responses provided by younger age groups . |
3 | It was arranged that they would take the horses down to the railway sidings where there was enough light from the warehouses to school in the evenings , and Biddy would come twice during the week and once at the weekend , for two hours each time . |
4 | It was so different from the rooms Xanthe and her father had taken in a former hôtel particulier of a family of the ancien régime , round a courtyard off the Rue St Honoré , with ormolu chests of drawers , lace-trimmed bolsters and a chiming clock on the writing desk in the small , light sitting room where stood striped chintz chairs with gilded lyre backs and a matching silk-covered settee . |
5 | The strict anti-reformist line resulting from the ninth plenum was largely absent from the resolutions of the 10th plenum held in December 1990 . |
6 | Apart from her shortness she was hardly distinguishable from the others , except for the largeness of her green eyes . |
7 | In the interval much had happened to Marx and he was by then an exile in London in a place and a situation where inevitably he was more remote from the centres of political action . |
8 | She would have left the door open and the landing light on so that she was clearly visible from the stairs . |
9 | He was slightly different from the others , Isabel saw , watching him with apprehensive eyes . |
10 | These holy men , whose sanctity was often clear from the miracles which God had allowed them to perform in life , had in death entered his presence . |
11 | It was perfectly obvious from the accounts that the company was in deep trouble . |
12 | It was the only maisonette in the block but was otherwise indistinguishable from the flats , with their mean windows and small , badly proportioned rooms . |
13 | The Labour Party , dominated by the free trade philosophy of Philip Snowden , offered more of the same and was barely distinguishable from the Conservatives in the economic policies they offered — except for the Conservative Party 's references to ‘ safe-guarding of industry , ’ a code-phrase for selective protectionism . |
14 | Relatively little detail was actually available from the recalls and the between subjects variability was extremely large . |
15 | Er not not particularly apart from that er that the the s the support from from the Party in general wa was very poor from the members in general was relatively poor . |
16 | Radicalism , however , was very far from the thoughts of the Secret Committee on the Peasant Question . |
17 | His style was very different from the others but like Cagney he was a very intelligent actor with strong views and sound business instincts with regard to the films that he should make . |
18 | His next kiss was very different from the ones that had gone before — swift , fierce and possessive , as if he were claiming back something that had always belonged to him . |