Example sentences of "a different " in BNC.

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1 The authorities claimed they were conspiring to overthrow the government , which is dominated by a different community , the Moors , but offered no evidence to substantiate this claim .
2 A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society .
3 There can be no doubt that the climate of Japan imposed on her artists a different attitude towards art problems .
4 Another book about the age of Dürer , but on a different topic , is The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany , by Michael Baxandall , published in 1980 .
5 In a different context , but also on the issue of religion , an American book on the Aztecs by the archaeologist Vaillant commented tartly :
6 Roger Fry , in writing about Cézanne , took a different route .
7 The level of detail may seem much the same as in a catalogue raisonné , but the stress falls in a different way .
8 A different sort of exhibition which has had some success in attracting attention , and thus newspaper coverage , is the prize competition .
9 In a different sort of context , what appears to be an abstract design , devoid of reference to the natural world , may in fact be a stylisation of a person , an animal or an imagined figure .
10 A different sort of description is an artist 's copy of a work .
11 But Hawksmoor is a different beast .
12 I 've met a different gauge of girl from yours .
13 My very writing became a different adventure , no longer the dolorous itinerary of a convalescent , no longer a begging for compassion and friendly faces , but a lucid building , which now was no longer solitary ; the work of a chemist who weighs and divides , measures and judges on the basis of assured proofs , and strives to answer questions .
14 You may well be asked to sing something unaccompanied , or do a short improvisation and you may well be asked to perform one of the speeches in a different way .
15 But there 's the travelling to get to the one the night after and seeing a different one every middle of the week .
16 My twin sister is a nurse and I suppose all the blood and thunder of things took me a different way .
17 Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level .
18 The real work of acting takes on a different dimension .
19 Are you saying that this combination of vocal and physical training stems from the demands of the classical play , like Richard III , or do you think a different approach is needed for the modern writer ?
20 In addition , Roman catholic schools in Ireland , in continuity with the belief and practice of Roman catholics in a number of other countries , have a different concept and practice of teaching religion in the schools from that of the majority of protestant traditions .
21 I need to introduce a different dimension and I am at a loss .
22 The rest of us are running a different race — by choice perhaps .
23 All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake .
24 If top panel is without perspective and bottom is nothing but perspective , then is that not the place for a different kind of vision ?
25 Scotland has a different brewing tradition in England and Wales .
26 We live in the fading twilight of an ‘ overpubbed ’ urban world ; a world which , even within living memory , gave the citizens of a small city like York the choice to drink in a different pub for every day of the year .
27 A vinaigre d'alcool will give a different taste from a vinaigre de vin vieux .
28 The tears on her face were a different colour now .
29 In fact , gardens that are long and narrow are among the more simple to design because they can be broken down very easily into separate garden areas or ‘ rooms ’ , each of them having a different function or theme .
30 If every type of glider required a different recovery there would be the risk of a pilot using the wrong method for the type of aircraft .
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