Example sentences of "[adv] different [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 At stake was not the resolution of a desperate national emergency , but a choice between two fundamentally different concepts of democracy , the outcome of which was bound to affect the trajectory of French politics for years to come .
2 The membership of this minority was never defined , nor was its need for a fundamentally different kind of teaching explained or justified .
3 The Mendeleev Table appeared at first sight to conclude the study of the atomic theory by setting a limit to the existence of fundamentally different kinds of matter .
4 Many of our partners have a wholly different tradition of employment practice which is reflected in the separate arrangements which they have agreed , which will affect only their countries and for which only they will pay .
5 A wholly different dynamic of change can be seen in the semi-conductor industry .
6 However , once this is conceded the basis of Oakeshott 's theory is challenged since he views these two forms of association as categorially distinct moral conditions and as shaping two wholly different manners of government and two profoundly different characters of human identity .
7 In the early days of the development of control systems for machine tools , two rather different principles for control were being explored .
8 But representative assemblies of a kind , parliaments , had a history which went back many centuries before the modern revival of the idea of democracy , and these assemblies brought with them their own rather different concept of representation .
9 SERAFIN : Yes , but we have jumped into a really rather different category of household appliance , have n't we ?
10 Among the sea anemones sticking limply to the rocks exposed at low tide , there are , almost everywhere in the world , rather different lumps of jelly .
11 First a by now familiar digression via the early modern , where we find rather different conceptions of sameness and sexual difference .
12 Hilary said the same thing , in a rather different tone of voice , over the breakfast table next morning to his parents .
13 The language of science overlaps with that of ordinary life , but words like ‘ field ’ , ‘ elementary ’ and ‘ family ’ came to be used in the later nineteenth century in rather different senses in physics , chemistry and biology .
14 A rather different type of argument suggests there may be strategic advantages in manufacturers remaining separate from retailers , whilst having distinct linkages .
15 So through that dismal day Hugh Templar sat at his kitchen table and pursued the adventures of a team of space-travellers who had discovered a world directly behind the sun , which was a mirror-image of our own Earth , with the same physical composition , but with a rather different kind of population , a race having strange and , I hoped , thought-provoking ideas about how to run their planet …
16 The theory developed for this purpose by Wimsatt and Brooks ( and in a rather different way by Ransom and Tate ) takes as its starting-point Richards 's ( and Coleridge 's ) principle of the reconciliation of opposites , though the view it arrives at differs from Richards 's in a number of important respects .
17 Huxley as a popularizer of Darwin and as a teacher of biology emphasized rather different aspects of science .
18 She is described as ‘ a decent-looking workgirl , employed at a mineral water factory ’ , and hers is a rather different tale of woe .
19 They concluded that there were a number of rather different sorts of town and city in Britain with dramatically varying levels of high-status jobs , social-welfare and educational provision .
20 The term ‘ participant observation ’ is commonly used to describe rather different sorts of research methods , and in the very diffuseness of methods used under this umbrella term there lies a danger .
21 ‘ The owner of the restaurant might have a rather different point of view . ’
22 Derkinderen and Crum ( 1984 ) raise a rather different point about risk .
23 In spite of the attractions , Guide has not adopted this uniform approach , mainly because unifying rather different types of object does not make for simplicity .
24 At the moment the figures of housing provision in that draft advice are rat are done on a rather different basis for West Yorkshire as opposed to the other counties in the region .
25 That is , we have two rather different kinds of plurality to deal with : Fig4.4 ( A ) PLURALITY OF ( B ) PLURALITY OF CODING LEVELS FUNCTIONS Textual Now , there is no one-to-one correspondence between levels and functions ( although we shall find , in Chapters 6 and 7 , some strong associations between them ) .
26 Some light is perhaps shed on the problem by the most recent psychological researches on memory , which have identified two rather different kinds of memory — ‘ explicit ’ memory , which amounts to relatively detailed recall of a set of stimuli ; and ‘ implicit ’ memory , which is distinctly short of detail , but enables people , in effect , to ‘ know I 've seen it before somewhere ’ .
27 Intra-medium decisions — where to put the ads within a chosen medium or media group — allow for a rather different form of judgement , and have available rather more coherent research standards .
28 There are also several poison arrow frogs of South America that show a rather different form of cannibalism .
29 Atkinson and Coleman offer a rather different view of bureaucracy under corporatist conditions .
30 Direct evidence of a rather different sort of learning comes from a study of great reed warblers and cuckoos , also in Central Japan , undertaken by Arnon Lotem and Amotz Zahavi of Tel-Aviv University , in collaboration with Dr Nakamura .
  Next page