Example sentences of "[noun pl] to different [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The main modalities of touch and smell , hearing and sight are all specializations to different modes of ‘ distance reception ’ .
2 We will take the animals to different planets .
3 The eclecticism of the mid-nineteenth-century architects was of two types : either they applied different styles to different buildings , as did Burn or the Barrys , or they applied motifs derived from different styles to the same building and so produced an original design .
4 Given the uncertainty that surrounds the entitlement to means-tested benefits , one might expect the individuals to attach different weights to different components of the total income in the optimisation ( Jenkins and Millar , 1989 ) .
5 The argument for the adoption of national spatial policies was persuasive , the latest of a long line of advocacy for a programme of urban rebuilding which would consciously reconstruct older areas to different patterns .
6 Port wine stains are heterogeneous , and responses to different lasers vary considerably .
7 They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli …
8 Very briefly , however , solicitors rendered two bills to different clients , the first of which allocated £17.10 to travelling fares , and the second of which allocated £34.20 for air fares from London to Rotterdam on behalf of the second client .
9 As the Council drew to a close , Pope Paul said formal goodbyes to different groups .
10 Professionals and businesses that stand in fiduciary relationships with their customers have always had to cope with the problems that arise when they owe conflicting duties to different clients , or their own interests conflict with those of a client .
11 Instead of sending donations to different charities direct , providing the minimum annual sum is over £120 a year ( or over £10 a month ) , donors can ‘ gift ’ the money to CAF who will maintain a ‘ charity cheque account ’ for them and will distribute the money to whichever charities they nominate .
12 A more useful , albeit theoretical , contribution is made by Challis and Ferlie ( 1987 ) when they ground their discussion of the various organizational developments in an examination of different criteria of efficiency , arguing that ‘ the attempt to disentangle the arguments for various alternative approaches to traditional generic practice into their expected contributions to different aspects of efficiency provides an agenda for valuable research ’ ( 1987 , p. 165 ) .
13 Our most up to date probing of Intel Corp 's P5 or Pentium architecture — given that the company is sending different messages to different parts of the industry — has the processor running at only two thirds of its promised speed and needing both a heat sink and fan to dissipate the heat it is producing .
14 With the depressed semiconductor market in Japan , NEC has reassigned 100 people in its plants to different jobs , but has not cut jobs as its overseas competitors have done .
15 The need for interdisciplinary approaches is reinforced but the abiding difficulties of interdisciplinary communications remain at every level from different values and concepts to different terminologies .
16 But parents have criticised the plans and are worried that rezoning could split their families to different schools .
17 It takes different people different styles who like to do different things to different meanings to be part of the rest .
18 Eliot once explained that , even if a poem meant different things to different readers , it was still necessary to assert its absolute " meaning .
19 Hick once compared the different religious traditions to different planets in a solar system like our own , all of which orbit the same sun .
20 Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery .
21 Further comments on attaching priorities to different subjects and to different levels of material are to be found in Chapter 3 .
22 It is essential to distinguish between , on the one hand , attaching priorities to different types of service or service to particular user groups , and on the other ensuring that certain types of material , reflecting certain views , are excluded from libraries altogether .
23 Homonyms are headwords to different entries that are spelt in the same way , e.g. bow ( the weapon ) , bow ( the action ) , bow ( the verb expressing the action ) .
24 And then I used to have t er a wicker basket with three wheels on , taking parcels to different firms .
25 Psychological method 's de-activation of women applies in different ways to different groups of women .
26 It was necessary to park the trucks some distance away from Acropolis Park , The freight routes from the factories were via underground subways to different areas of the city , or else , for lighter materials , via the highwire .
27 It has been attacked on the grounds that it attempts to relate particular skills to different levels of management , or that it sectionalises/parochialises management thinking .
28 In a sense , two or more pointers from atomic descriptions to a common role-slot constitute a condition for plural reference , like a complex ref-O , while pointers from atomic objects to different role-slots constitute the condition for singular reference , like simple ref-Os .
29 This included deciding between day care or school , and parents ' attitudes to different options .
30 Indeed , taking things a step further , you can break down an overall favourable attitude to a brand into a set of attitudes to different aspects of the brand .
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