Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They make three main criticisms : Regional policy has been too weak to counteract the tendency of large capitalist enterprises to move where it is most profitable from the immediate point of view and irrespective of social consequences on the local community . |
| 2 | The common experience of Christianity , of similar concepts of family , together with the more recent experience of urbanisation and industrialisation , all mark Europe out as fundamentally different from the Arab world or from India . |
| 3 | Hence the early medieval kingdom was not only fundamentally different from the tax-based Roman Empire , but inherently weak and unstable . |
| 4 | Khieu Samphan refused to sign the communiqué , which he claimed was fundamentally different from the Thai document approved by the four groups in May . |
| 5 | The septa in these corals are often arranged about a six-fold symmetry so that they are fundamentally different from the Rugosa . |
| 6 | The meanings thus arrived at would be far removed from the realms of mysticism and superstition , and be wholly free from the false claims of unchallengeable truth attributed to so-called holy scripture . |
| 7 | The perspective of the 1980s however is strikingly different from the 1970s . |
| 8 | This is rather different from the Western dialectic habit in which one party will put forward his idea and back it up with supporting information . |
| 9 | The fact that they are regularly represented with special spelling forms makes them seem rather different from the above examples . |
| 10 | Initial , would have to be interpreted as initial , plus post-initial , , with the result that the post-initial set of consonants would have to contain , , , and also , — consonants which are rather different from the other four and which could only combine with , . |
| 11 | Auburee , however , plays to the full here the apt role of a garrulous and clumsy , but essentially thoughtless and harmless , old woman to entrap the wife ; the sexual connotations of her interest in and comments on the bed are rather different from the explicit insolence of the monk of the Shipman 's Tale . |
| 12 | The perception of shape and pattern in apparently disorderly ( but dynamic and mobile ) things is usually mentioned with reference to visual perception , and it is commented on in the sciences and the arts alike : it is prominent , for example , in the notebooks of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins ( J. Milroy , 1977 ) , in his careful descriptions of cloud formations , waterfalls and other dynamic phenomena , and much of the poet 's imagery depends on a kind of ‘ observer 's paradox ’ ( rather different from the familiar Labov version ) , through which a dynamic phenomenon can nonetheless appear to have stable shapes and patterns within it and , conversely , a static phenomenon may appear to contain mobility . |
| 13 | This is not entirely surprising because the steps involved are rather different from the familiar ones used in other spreadsheet tasks . |
| 14 | Again the two models of suburbanization by addition and redevelopment are useful but the pattern of their application was rather different from the inter-war years . |
| 15 | That the orientation is rather different from the intellectual influences on the normativist style is fairly clear . |
| 16 | The features of sign language interpreting so far described , and the possible registers available , suggest something rather different from the linguistic models of Seleskovitch ( 1978 ) and others . |
| 17 | Sometimes in the latter case it seems that the assimilation is rather different from the word-boundary examples ; for example , if in a syllable-final consonant cluster a nasal consonant precedes a plosive or a fricative in the same morpheme , the place of articulation of the nasal is always determined by the place of articulation of the other consonant ; thus : ‘ bump ’ ; ‘ tenth ’ ; ‘ hunt ’ ; ‘ bank ’ . |
| 18 | The message here is rather different from the automic and unproblematic sharing of assistance portrayed in the Bethnal Green study . |
| 19 | In those circumstances , according to Mr Altman of New York University , the calculation about what capital structure to adopt became rather different from the conventional sort . |
| 20 | It 's little different from the usual ideal image , but Milligan sees influences that many of us miss . |
| 21 | It may ensure that , beneath the new uniform , our function remains in effect little different from the former ‘ ambulance service ’ ( Golby and Gulliver 1979 ) instead of increasingly becoming that of ‘ consultants in road-safety ’ . |
| 22 | The provincial groups with papers in two or three towns were little different from the other independents . |
| 23 | The tournament in the early twelfth century was a mock battle little different from the real thing : the highly organized jousting which we usually associate with such an event was only beginning to develop . |
| 24 | This means that to use the node structure from the trie , few routes would be able to be re-used , resulting in a dawg which is little different from the original trie ( figure 3.6 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ The match went ahead though and the catches were obviously low from the polluted stretch . |
| 26 | I have now had my second Chinese haircut , and am looking a suitably shorn lamb , but still bearded , and therefore sufficiently odd from the Chinese point of view . |
| 27 | Personally , I regret that the effect of these changes would be to make professional cricket in England less different from the first-class game everywhere else in the world . |
| 28 | As Philip Strick and others have commented , his fake gorillas are so indistinguishable from the real ones that they all start to look slightly suspect particularly since five ‘ mime artists ’ but no stuntpersons are credited , and neither director Michael Apted nor associate producer Baker could have risked Sigourney Weaver 's getting seriously injured . |
| 29 | Their style of life was not much different from the ordinary Zuwaya : they had perhaps recently acquired better housing , but the new villas were not segregated ; food was no more generous , nor more delicate in a rich man 's house ; schooling and medical treatment were uniform . |
| 30 | The result is a presidency with an image of blandness much different from the glitzy campaign Mr Bush waged to win the White House from Michael Dukakis who , it is worth remarking , is governor of the speedy state of Massachusetts . |