Example sentences of "[adj] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The areas protected by these systems , both sprinkler and ventilation systems and controllable from the same point , should coincide . |
| 2 | Cases such as Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 and Reg. v. Mason ( Carl ) [ 1988 ] 1 W.L.R. 139 are very different from the present case or the blackmail example . |
| 3 | If he is that different from the present denizens , perhaps his influence may extend to more tolerance toward detector users ? |
| 4 | Few areas have been subjected to uninterrupted denudation since then , but , as the earlier Tertiary climates were very different from the present ones , any surviving landforms could present difficulties to the investigator . |
| 5 | If she had n't approached me first I doubt I should have recognised her , she was so different from the plump , fresh-faced girl whom I had met on the train that January morning more than three years ago . |
| 6 | But his idea of a merger was quite different from the Allied proposal , which would have ruled out the possibility of a provisional French government and subordinated de Gaulle to Giraud . |
| 7 | Well who are the Kuwaitis and how do they differ and how are they different from the Saudi Arabians and the southern Iraquis ? |
| 8 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 9 | Here is the typical layout of such blocks , which is quite different from the Pompeian house . |
| 10 | The ‘ madrigal ’ which succeeded it — a fourteenth-century term revived in 1530 for something quite different from the Florentine madrigal — was a fairly free poem of anything from six to sixteen lines , roughly equivalent to one stanza of a canzone . |
| 11 | Only this : it is misleading to suggest that a socialist alternative qualitatively different from the actual record of 1964–70 existed in potentia and merely went by default , on account of a failure of political will . |
| 12 | The court ruled 7:2 on June 20 that writers could be sued for fabricating or deliberately altering quotations if such alterations were sufficiently different from the actual words used by the subject to alter materially their meaning . |
| 13 | A 'sham " has been defined by Diplock LJ ( as he then was ) in Snook v London and West Riding Investments Ltd [ 1967 ] 2 QB 786 ( at p802 ) to include : [ A ] cts done or documents executed by the parties to the " sham " which are intended by them to give to third parties or to the court the appearance of creating between the parties legal rights and obligations different from the actual legal rights and obligations ( if any ) which the parties intend to create . |
| 14 | Reading a cookery book about how to make a cake is very different from the actual doing of it . |
| 15 | This is an example of the abstract view of phonology where the way a word is represented phonemically may be significantly different from the actual sequence of sounds heard , so that the phonetic and the phonemic levels are quite widely separated . |
| 16 | Their style of life was not much different from the ordinary Zuwaya : they had perhaps recently acquired better housing , but the new villas were not segregated ; food was no more generous , nor more delicate in a rich man 's house ; schooling and medical treatment were uniform . |
| 17 | A Living Will is quite different from the ordinary will described earlier in this leaflet . |
| 18 | The term is brought in whenever there is anything supernatural or different from the ordinary course of nature . |
| 19 | However it is evident that he intended something different from the simple a cappella doubling of voices by instruments , and this ‘ something different ’ became known as the ‘ concerted style ’ ( stile concertato ) , a ‘ consort ’ of voices and instruments . |
| 20 | The administration of law and order may enforce another definition of crime which is different from the legal definition . |
| 21 | You can select the required field name from the form , if this is different from the current value , by inputting an appropriate field number . |
| 22 | You can select the required field name from the form , if this is different from the current value , by marking the required field name or by inputting an appropriate index . |
| 23 | The developments that followed the success of The Brow were different from the Dutch innovations in several crucial respects . |
| 24 | Its format may also be different from the logical schema . |
| 25 | The essential feature of this timekeeping device was a linkwork escapement quite different from the verge-and-foliot system invented in Europe in the late thirteenth century ( ch. 7 ) . |
| 26 | This could not be more different from the cruel flinging of Mary Vetsera 's body by Rudolf in the Mayerling pas de deux with which MacMillan describes the Count 's tragic mental state . |
| 27 | Ophiopristis differs from Ophioprium as follows the oral tentacle scales are not markedly different from the oral papillae — those of Ophioprium are much more elongate and slightly separated ; the tentacle pores are smaller and armed with 1–2 large tentacle scales whereas the pores in Ophioprium are open and armed with small thin tentacle scales . |
| 28 | A binary trie is different from the binary tree described earlier because the two pointers leading out of a node have different functions , and there is one letter per node , rather than one word per node . |
| 29 | The circuit only sends the motor an impulse when the sensor 's output is different from the required setting . |
| 30 | What a fool I am , he thought , still to mourn for a lost past and a girl who existed only in my imagination , the reality being so different , when I have this ardent , hardworking … child … to keep me company , so different from the mercenary beauty who has just left . |