Example sentences of "[adj] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MANOVA was performed , which allows serial measurements to be analysed , and xenografts treated with the histamine concentrations of 1 mgkg - 1 were significantly different from the controls ( p=0.008 ) whereas xenografts treated with histamine concentrations of 0.1 and 10 mgkg - 1 were not . |
| 2 | Analysis of the data by an analysis of variance for growth showed that the treatment groups were significantly different from the controls ( p<0.001 ) and that there was a treatment with time interaction — that is , the rate of growth was not the same for all treatments ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 3 | These codes are quite different from the models of poetics because they can not be reduced to a structure , and consequently the text itself can not in turn be reduced to a structural homology of a code . |
| 4 | However , ten-year-olds were not significantly different from the adults , with an overall success rate of 86 per cent , though the seven-year-olds were significantly poorer with a mean of 57 per cent . |
| 5 | For , plainly , such a procedure and the acknowledgement of either authoritative text or persons involve the existence of rules of a type different from the rules of obligation or duty which ex hypothesi are all that the group has . |
| 6 | The make-up of the Glasgow head office committee is slightly different from the committees at Craigforth , branches and regional sales centres . |
| 7 | Apart from the final point , these were no different from the policies being advocated by the Liberals . |
| 8 | One of them was Guardsman Johnny Cooper who had managed to join the Scots Guards while still under age and who was very impressed by his commanding officer : ‘ he was different from the officers I had come into contact with up to that time . |
| 9 | She looked at the polished coppery band , so different from the collars Samson forged along with fetters and thumbscrews for the slave trade . |
| 10 | Again , this is not radically different from the attitudes of many parents towards children of higher intelligence , who believe that their children should experience pre-school education , perhaps attending a play school or nursery from the age of three onwards , and then encouraging them to pursue further education at school leaving age . |
| 11 | We come here to what seems to me to be the central dilemma in second language pedagogy : the conditions appropriate for acquiring communicative resources are different from the conditions of their use . |
| 12 | In fact , with the exception of the occasional exotic demand , such as orchids from Singapore for Elena , Marin 's job was little different from the agents of the other communist élites placed in Western Europe to provide the videotape recorders and other appurtenances of power for the nomenklatura from East Berlin to Moscow and beyond . |
| 13 | The result is that the final confrontation with the evil Sangrado , the melodramatic scene of occult horror from which Margarita is rescued and the revelation of her true identity , take on a particular sharpness of surprise , a tone of active , romantic effort quite different from the tensions of Sard 's wanderings . |
| 14 | This was little different from the responses provided by younger age groups . |
| 15 | Now if children are unable to interpret the visual symbols and the written word , in order to make sense of them , there 's bound to be some reaction which will show itself in a sort of behavioural response which appears to be different from the responses we would receive from children who are able to interpret these words and symbols . |
| 16 | As for the precise methods that they use , there is no reason why these should be any different from the machinations — all too predictable to a selfish gene/extended phenotype theorist — of viruses . |
| 17 | Was n't he totally different from the boys who had fumblingly and rather horridly and wetly , she thought , kissed her and said they quite fancied her ? |
| 18 | ‘ You 're different from the women I 've met so far , ’ said Ray . |
| 19 | The individual clouds , identifiable as discrete features in Fig. 4 b and c , are very different from the clouds observed in the disk ; they are , on average , much denser and their velocity widths are much larger . |
| 20 | This approach to marketing is called the ‘ marketing concept ’ and its perspective is radically different from the approaches of production , product and sales-orientated organizations . |
| 21 | In what way was the economic environment which fostered search in Britain different from the preconditions of headhunting in the USA ? |
| 22 | In my own work with Japanese quail I have found that this process may lead to a preference for a partner that is slightly novel — just a bit different but not too different from the members of the opposite sex it knew when it was young ( Bateson , Mate Choice ) . |
| 23 | The problem is standards : there are hundreds of varieties of Unix , each subtly different from the others . |
| 24 | Calling in Mrs Thatcher to amplify his own quiet words , he started to say things which explained why his party was different from the others . |
| 25 | There is something common to all our experiences of art , of whatever kind — music , poetry , painting … , each art concretely utterly different from the others . |
| 26 | ‘ Finally , a letter came which was different from the others . |
| 27 | After John died , when the Girls were asked to appear at the Royal Command Performance , she saw no reason why this show should be any different from the others and stood in her usual place at the side of the stage , hissing corrections at the Girls . |
| 28 | The seventh principle is different from the others , and introduces an important new right for data subjects . |
| 29 | The British liked to think their system was different from the others , but it is not easy , in examining the literature , to discover exactly where in practice the difference lay . |
| 30 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |