Example sentences of "[adj] from [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew about the light shining in darkness , and had come , for reasons completely different from Alexander 's desire for exactness , specificity , to mistrust figurative language . |
| 2 | Also in January 1950 , Sukarno paid a state visit to India which was returned by Nehru in June : in a typically ruminative speech ( so different from Sukarno 's declamatory style ) Nehru told his audience , Politicians are accustomed to making this kind of speech on a foreign tour , but we may believe that Nehru , with his almost mystical sense of Asian-ness , meant every word . |
| 3 | At first blush this seems , though more cautiously stated , not too different from Macaulay 's grand vision of a free and regenerated India , launched into the civilized world by the patient efforts of generations of Englishmen . |
| 4 | Modern biblical scholars concur that the churches which evolved in Syria , in Asia Minor and in Egypt embodied a form of ‘ Christianity ’ no less valid than Rome 's , different from Rome 's though it was . |
| 5 | All cities have different records in this respect and they all merit individual research if we are to piece together the various aspects of post-war urban development ( Manchester 's Moss-side development was different from Sheffield 's Park Hill estate of ‘ streets in the sky ’ , and different again from Newcastle 's development at Byker , with its famous ‘ wall ’ ) . |
| 6 | Glasser 's vapours are different from Fraser 's . |
| 7 | Thus , in the end , it looks as though Hegel 's view of the relation between husband and wife in marriage is not very different from Kant 's . |
| 8 | Mellow fluty song , quite different from Skylark 's , often on an interrupted descending scale , usually delivered in circular song flight , sometimes at night . |
| 9 | This is different from Owen 's other poems in that they are more dramatic and gruesome , with descriptions of warfare and death . |
| 10 | Kate looked into his haggard face , so different from Dan 's blond smoothness . |
| 11 | Very different from man 's condition . |
| 12 | This is different from Sun 's previous strategy which basically charged Russian customers European list prices plus high shipment costs . |
| 13 | During the last few years , John Morley , of Rolls Royce , has prepared silica glass fibres ( with a composition different from Griffith 's glass ) with strengths rather over 2,000,000 p.s.i . |
| 14 | Peter 's Friends is not only witty , intelligent and relevant , it is also completely different from Branagh 's previous films , Henry V and Dead Again . |
| 15 | Ryle 's positive point , in his Royal Institute of philosophy lecture , that Le Penseur 's thinking is to be understood in terms of that of the tennis player , is different from Wittgenstein 's positive point , in 88 to 136 or thereabouts , but particularly in 100–103 , which might now be expressed by saying that ‘ I thought … ’ is like ‘ I meant … ’ ( see above ) , though this way of putting it is really no more than a hint as to his meaning . |
| 16 | Eliot 's vision of the urbane savage was very different from Arnold 's , but gave him the same privileges as his Romantic predecessor . |
| 17 | I say rightly so because Herbert Spencer 's theory of evolution was fundamentally different from Darwin 's , even though it 's often confused with it . |
| 18 | The arm spines of A. palmeri are very different from Mortensen 's specimen ; they are thick with a very distinct hook , the arm spines of A. otteri are slender with only a small hook , like those of the Ingolf specimens . |
| 19 | I do n't think her view is that different from Forster 's . |
| 20 | So that although the theoretical presuppositions of traditional literary criticism are very different from Derrida 's , the student of literature is likely to recognize his strategy of not taking texts at face value . |
| 21 | This approach is markedly different from LDDC 's practice and , indeed , from MDC 's accountability concerns in its initial phase . |
| 22 | Of course my piece will be very different from Valerie 's : I would n't want you to think there was duplication : that we were taking up your time unnecessarily . |
| 23 | Mr. Marshall 's office was very different from Ingard 's . |
| 24 | He had forgotten how pleasing a woman 's soft voice was , the faintly suggestive noise her skirts made , and the delightfully pleasant scent which accompanied McAllister everywhere , so different from Matey 's sensible Lifebuoy and carbolic . |
| 25 | In fact the performance is very different from Chailly 's . |
| 26 | Women 's viewing habits are different from men 's , and older people 's viewing habits are different from younger people 's . |
| 27 | She took the view that if one gave women the chance to do current affairs they might produce current affairs ' programmes that were different from men 's . |
| 28 | The second stage was to reinterpret difference so that women 's own activities would gain social value even though they were different from men 's ( ‘ radical ’ feminism ) . |
| 29 | His approach was different from Marx 's in that it was not a prediction of the future based on inexorable laws in history , but a probable result based on ‘ observable tendencies ’ . |
| 30 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |