Example sentences of "[adj] from the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the rudimentary nature of the ‘ Hooligan ’ style was not in any essential way different from the later youth fashions in the ‘ affluent ’ postwar era where the kids would put together their ‘ unprecedented ’ styles out of various permutations of available scraps such as tight trousers , baggy trousers , long hair , short hair , no hair , jeans , braces , T-shirts , string ties , broad ties , no ties , heavy boots , narrow winkle-picker shoes , long jackets , short jackets , etc . |
| 2 | All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity . |
| 3 | They had an extraordinary tension and were in some ways quite different from the earlier recording . |
| 4 | None of these figures is very different from the earlier stages of weathering , and it would seem that even after more than three years of exposure to weathering , the damage and/or loss of bone is still very small . |
| 5 | This was apparently justified by arguing that CS ‘ smoke ’ is different from the earlier types of tear-gas . |
| 6 | However , we showed that the contribution which PNP appointees were able to make was inseparable from the wider management structures within which they were located , and in particular that the head played a key role in facilitating and supporting their endeavours . |
| 7 | However , this mixing has not made the surface composition the same everywhere : this is clear from the lower albedo of the maria and from differences between the samples at one site and those at another . |
| 8 | Distinguished from the larger chukar-type partridges by unspotted grey breast , chestnut horseshoe on lower breast , no white about head , less conspicuously barred flanks , greenish bill and grey legs . |
| 9 | But apart from this , the Nazareans are indistinguishable from the broader movement of which they were part . |
| 10 | When one considers that the main reason that words are absent is that they are proper nouns , which will also be unavailable from the larger lexicon , it is clear that omissions are unavoidable . |
| 11 | One way of defining the middle classes is to try to understand how they kept themselves morally distinct from the lower orders . |
| 12 | The bourgeois was , if not a different species , then at least the member of a superior race , a higher stage in human evolution , distinct from the lower orders who remained in the historical or cultural equivalent of childhood or at most adolescence . |
| 13 | They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material . |
| 14 | This seems distinct from the earlier image of a crowd being roused to the point of demanding blood . |
| 15 | It reached almost unbroken from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Natufian , enabling her to impose order on the hitherto incoherent archaeology of the Levant ( D. Garrod and D. M. A. Bate , The Stone Age of Mount Carmel , 1937 ) . |
| 16 | Its conception and inspiration were totally dissimilar from the later classical form but , diverse and richly variable as it is throughout Europe , Gothic architecture is characteristically definable wherever it is to be found . |
| 17 | That he was still a juvenile was evident from the lighter markings on his wings that are lost only in maturity . |
| 18 | In the course of history jade has been held in highest esteem among four quite distinct groups of people , the Chinese from the later stone age to modern times , the neolithic inhabitants of substantial parts of temperate Europe , the Maori of New Zealand and in the New World the inhabitants of early Mexico from as far back as Maya times . |
| 19 | The Department has previously contributed towards the cost of some such places in the voluntary sector by paying supplementation on a per capita basis to top up the amount available from the higher rate of Income Support ; or by payment of a block grant for the service . |
| 20 | Secondly , the prospective information available from the earlier work will be used to compare the importance of activity and stress during the earlier and later years of childhood . |
| 21 | It will be apparent from the earlier discussion that a simple assertion about helping old people maintain their independence does not do justice to the subtleties of achieving a balance between independence and dependence which is acceptable or tolerable to the old people concerned . |
| 22 | It should be apparent from the earlier sections of this chapter that a GIS provides both a database of spatial and attribute data and the software tools needed to manipulate and transform those data . |
| 23 | Different kinds of opacity within a program were discussed earlier and these would seem to have quite different correlates in the sphere of consciousness : the lower level of language is almost totally inaccessible from the higher level ( unless special structural features are added to the language to make it accessible ) , in rather the way that the machine code of our brain , if there is one , is utterly inaccessible to me , thinking in English . |
| 24 | Despite many exquisite passages of florid embellishment in a manner familiar from the earlier works , there is much less of their sense of ecstatic suspension of time . |
| 25 | Sheltered from the stronger north west winds , local sailing is always an option too , and we run RYA certificate courses within the framework of the holiday . |