Example sentences of "[vb past] in a different " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways this is the ‘ tyranny of the majority ’ argument ( met in chapter 4 ) described in a different way . |
| 2 | Two of the brass chandeliers suspended above the nave gave a gentle diffused light but the church looked dimly mysterious compared with the glare of the passage and the figures of Massingham and the detective sergeant quietly conferring , of Miss Wharton and the boy patiently sitting like hump-backed dwarfs on low chairs in what must be the children 's corner , seemed as distanced and insubstantial as if they moved in a different dimension of time . |
| 3 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 4 | The reassuring love she had expected from the house she found in a different measure from the three little dogs , friendly , even worshipful , and proffering no accusations of her neglectful absence — their care and pleasures important to her , she leaned against the car and waited while they took to the woods and the wild . |
| 5 | Although the sequence oral-anal-phallic seems to be , and indeed is , determined by the basic pattern of infantile physical development — oral dependence giving way to increasing control of the anal sphincter , followed by development of genital sensitivity , etc. — the pattern of instinctual renunciation and control which this series represents is derived from another , different series in which the stages originally occurred in a different order . |
| 6 | It does n't only happen with women : it happened in a different way with Tom Keating and Chris Frayling ( who is Professor of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art ) . |
| 7 | It was an awful dream that belonged in a different landscape . |
| 8 | [ 4 ] Discovering this literary phenomenon , we should realise that the contemporary reader of Middle English lived in a different social and cultural reality from ours . |
| 9 | I lived in a different house , read different books , played different games and so on , and , despite various efforts , could not become popular . |
| 10 | This production was only a qualified achievement , but Eyre succeeded in a different vein when he brought out the kindliness and charm of Harold Brighouse 's Hobson 's Choice at the Haymarket ( 1983 ) , in which Penelope Keith appeared to splendid effect . |
| 11 | What 's the matter ? ’ he asked in a different tone . |
| 12 | If you think a little about it you will be able to convince yourself that Rk is nothing other than the old familiar resistance ( proportional to length ; inversely proportional to cross-section ) derived in a different manner . |
| 13 | Not that it did n't work the way we did it , but it worked in a different way . ’ |
| 14 | There is just enough décor and furniture to prevent it from looking empty , but space and simplicity are the most powerful impressions made on the visitor — what Leonard called in a different context ‘ the voluptuousness of austerity . ’ |
| 15 | To render the applicability of natural justice dependent upon a prior classification of the above type would have its utility in greater certainty and predictability : if a case fell within one category certain results would follow ; if it fell in a different category differing results would ensue . |
| 16 | It also seems that unemployment , the chief cause of poverty during the inter-war period , resulted in a different outlook from that induced by pre-World War I poverty , which was caused primarily by low wages . |
| 17 | These are based on existing sources of information but presented in a different way . |
| 18 | Another friend , ‘ E ’ , reacted in a different way when I told her . |
| 19 | To Beaverbrook , however , he appeared in a different light . |
| 20 | Furthermore , even if the person warned did not repeat the conduct about which he had been warned , he could be arrested if he engaged in a different act or course of offensive conduct . |
| 21 | I leaned over him and said in a different tone , " Do you know where Toby is ? " |
| 22 | And when they were inside she said in a different voice , ‘ What is going on between you and that girl ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I was at Sidney , ’ he said in a different voice . |
| 24 | It 's er the , the apostle 's creed ha has erm er er er is erm out of a different background and that er compiled in a different context altogether , it 's polemic law so often , this is doxological . |
| 25 | Thus I do not for example think that there could be a human person ( which Christians must proclaim ) who stood in a different relationship to God than do all other human beings . |
| 26 | In addition , there were stories of a ‘ factual ’ nature , which mirrored in a different context the tone and content of the speaker 's talk . |
| 27 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |