Example sentences of "[prep] a different [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When goods are carried in different vehicles or are of a different kind or are divided into different lots , the sender of the carrier is entitled to require a separate consignment note for each vehicle or each kind or lot of goods . |
| 2 | Whether or not you can reasonably be expected to take a job of a different kind or at a lower rate of pay will depend upon the circumstances . |
| 3 | There is , it seems to me , a danger of treating the communities we study as pawns in some cosmic game of micro and macro processes , locating reality in the microprocesses of social interaction we observe in our villages and treating what is our subjects as something that is either less than reality or reality of a different kind or order . |
| 4 | Later in the season , plants offer animals food of a different kind and for a different reason . |
| 5 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 6 | The seller delivered cabbage seed of a different type and vastly inferior quality , but the House of Lords held that this was not a " peas and beans case " so that there was no breach of the fundamental term . |
| 7 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 8 | The other fact which they had overlooked was of a different character but no less important in the long run . |
| 9 | How much more difficult when that old person is of a different race or culture from one 's own , has a lifetime of tradition and experience of which we know nothing and has been subjected to hostile experiences , whether the horror of the Holocaust or consistent denigration by virtue of skin colour ? |
| 10 | In 1982 , however , Dr Mary Prior published the results of a different approach and showed just how revealing a detailed study of an urban occupational group over the centuries could be . |
| 11 | He implies that the psychic gifts are of a different order than other gifts , when he warns , |
| 12 | A problem here for the responsible head or class teacher is to reduce the possibility of accident ( of a different order than the odd bump or collision referred to by Barraga ( 1976 ) ) . |
| 13 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are not just to the dominance of image and sensation and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 14 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are , not just to the dominance of the figural and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 15 | If art is no longer to be considered as of a different order than life , then the idea of aesthetic avant-gardes is questioned . |
| 16 | Images , she notes , are signifiers of a different order than language . |
| 17 | A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal . |
| 18 | For example , if the proposed route of the march takes the participants past an embassy or a particular factory against whose occupants the organisers wish to protest , the prescription of a different route or terminus may obviate the whole point of the demonstration , and amount to in effect a disguised ban . |
| 19 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
| 20 | Women , however , were still perceived as being made of a different metal and , in spite of Mill , their voting remained an absurd and scandalous project for many decades after ‘ manhood suffrage ’ became a reality . |
| 21 | This of course means that in principle the same minor arousal manipulation may impair the performance of one subject and yet improve the performance of a different subject and nonetheless remain consistent with an overall inverted-U relationship . |
| 22 | For example , the first vowel in the following English words is of a different quality when it is stressed than when it is unstressed : convert , progress , transfer . |
| 23 | He seemed of a different texture and substance from her gentle and ineffectual mother ; he was hewn or cut out of thunder itself . |
| 24 | It was suggested that the extension of the period to three years from one required the attribution of a different meaning because the Theophile construction meant that it did not really matter what the period was ; as long as there was a debt , a bankruptcy petition could be presented . |
| 25 | The use of a different laminate and fingerboard in the neck of the six helps to elicit a slightly darker sound , but the power is still there , without a doubt . |
| 26 | This was achieved by examining brooches which are pairs , those not paired but which are very similar and those which are of a different design but which share the same characteristics . |
| 27 | This model would , of course , be the cheapest possible for cremation ; anything more elaborate would require to be of a different design and materials . |
| 28 | Here the external economies were of a different form and the location , of course , is today no longer in the inner city . |
| 29 | In his book , One Hundred Days in Europe , he wrote : ‘ Our recently naturalized fellow-citizens , of a different blood and different religion , must not suppose that we are going to forget our inborn love for the mother to whom we owe our being . ’ |
| 30 | I even knew that if we talked about her past and all her life I might begin to like her , but I was thinking of a different countryside and different cattle and worrying about the oxen who ploughed the fields and turned the water wheels . |