Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for different " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally used by Suess ( 1886 ) , who visualised a sharp tectonic front marked by northward thrusting over a relatively undeformed foreland , the term ‘ Variscan Front ’ is ambiguous , having conflicting meanings for different authors in various areas . |
| 2 | The business of getting and staying fit has become a complicated science and a lot of time spent working out specific programmes for different training phases during the year . |
| 3 | The period may start at different times for different companies . |
| 4 | A multiplicity of jurisdictions , dependent in part on where one lived , meant that a man might be subject to different courts for different reasons . |
| 5 | Reorganizing the lay-out of the production process can therefore permit the much greater automation of final assembly processes if robots , for example , can be programmed to perform different operations for different models almost to the exact moment the components arrive . |
| 6 | Words however are only symbols and they can have different meanings for different people . |
| 7 | write in different forms for different purposes and audiences ; |
| 8 | The suit had to be practical , which in practice meant seven different suits for different functions ( some worn mainly by stuntmen ) and two more for his damaged appearance at the end . |
| 9 | One could speculate that behaviour would continue to improve , although at a decreasing rate , with it perhaps approaching a plateau somewhere below the optimum ; one might also want to speculate that there would be different plateaus for different people — reflecting the ‘ fact ’ that some individuals are better decision-makers than others . |
| 10 | You should try to develop different methods for different kinds of historical information . |
| 11 | The powder lip colour lasts for ages and the top gloss seals the colour , but the great thing about it is that you can use different combinations for different effects . |
| 12 | You can define formatted styles for different types of heading and blocks of text ; once the style is defined , you simply apply it to chosen blocks of text and it will conform to your master plan . |
| 13 | Is this correct or should we allow different styles for different boats ? |
| 14 | Where goat milk or milk products are used for human consumption , milk-withholding periods for different drugs should be observed . |
| 15 | Different strokes for different folks . |
| 16 | But it is different strokes for different folks . |
| 17 | Different strokes for different folks . |
| 18 | That person is Paul Johnson , divisional controller at Esselte Dymo : ‘ The spreadsheet approach tends to result in the development of different spreadsheets for different things . |
| 19 | It is envisaged that there will be different targets for different countries , based on assessments of the " critical loads " of acid rain that ecosystems can tolerate . |
| 20 | The Times , like the Guardian , has different days for different types of jobs . |
| 21 | It seems likely that several factors account for the gender differences in morbidity and that there are different explanations for different types of illness . |
| 22 | Different colours for different services in Russia . |
| 23 | and , what happened was it was a hell of a stink in dock , because there was all different workers for different jobs , it was one for fitting car seats , you had one for fitting glass , you had one for doing engine , one for fitting the gear box , one fitting wheels on , so you had ten blokes just doing one job on a car |
| 24 | Five different kinds for different parts of the ship . |
| 25 | Perhaps the future lies in the compromise of adopting the old management accounting adage : different costs for different purposes . |
| 26 | For while it is true that ‘ different costs for different purposes ’ is an accepted part of textbooks , it is not clear that the idea has been successfully communicated to non-accountants . |
| 27 | Since changes in benefits can have different implications for different individuals , aggregate time series tests of the effect of average benefits may be misleading . |
| 28 | For example , there may be different conditions for different grades of staff . |
| 29 | One feature of prison rules as published in most administrations is that they require different provisions for different categories of prisoner . |
| 30 | Analysing tenants ' own accounts of their living conditions , he again argues that ‘ home ’ and what we have earlier called ‘ ontological security ’ actually mean quite different things for different classes . |