Example sentences of "[adj] from the old " in BNC.

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1 Often this will not be successful if the population is attached to its traditional methods and the new methods are radically different from the old ; a careful marketing campaign to change attitudes can have a dramatic effect , particularly by presenting new products in a way that is not dramatically different from the old .
2 Often this will not be successful if the population is attached to its traditional methods and the new methods are radically different from the old ; a careful marketing campaign to change attitudes can have a dramatic effect , particularly by presenting new products in a way that is not dramatically different from the old .
3 It emphasises that a proposed change of use constitutes development if the new use is ‘ substantially ’ different from the old .
4 As I have said , the general structure of these aeroplanes was quite different from the old fabric biplanes .
5 The new machine or system must not be very different from the old one for a variety of reasons .
6 The salute was repeated , different from the old Nazi one that had been discredited when Germany lost the last war .
7 And the new life , the Christian life , is described concisely and clearly as being different from the old way .
8 Although the case is similar on the facts to Glasgow Corpn v Taylor , the approach on the statute might be different from the old common law approach .
9 She rarely allowed herself to remember Grandmother Gertler but that word was inseparable from the old lady .
10 This severity of customs was inseparable from the old friendship with Rome .
11 In view of this , climbers are asked to approach the crag direct from the old bridge and avoid Lovers ' Walk .
12 The party stood on a detailed manifesto which addressed local issues but stressed that the NILP had ‘ new ideas free from the old sectarian catch cries ’ .
13 Three company bosses walked free from the Old Bailey trial — which has cost the taxpayer £3 million — as ministers were attacked for ‘ withholding the truth ’ .
14 We found Venturous better than ever with her new engines and at fourteen knots was much quieter and free from the old vibration .
15 The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years .
16 They realized dimly that , for the moment at least , the Bolsheviks seemed even keener than the SRs to provoke similar disorder at all levels : and their Land Decree seemed indistinguishable from the old SR demands on behalf of the peasantry .
17 The new kids were indistinguishable from the old and the new parents were just the same , for the female cousins had all married , or shacked up with , wispy , indefinite , ineffectual men ; and the male cousins had simply married their mothers .
18 Their association became known as the Royal Mines Copper ( as distinct from the old Company or Society of Mines Royal ) .
19 Secluded from the old Roman road running eastward from Stamford Bridge , Skirpenbeck is a small , quiet village with some charming Properties , several of which are listed buildings .
20 The insignia , a cross with the ends linked up and an eagle 's head at the centre , was n't far from the old Nazi swastika .
21 One could suggest that there is a learning of the young from the old , that they follow scent markers from a previous year .
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