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

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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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 First a by now familiar digression via the early modern , where we find rather different conceptions of sameness and sexual difference .
6 Huxley as a popularizer of Darwin and as a teacher of biology emphasized rather different aspects of science .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 ) .
11 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 ’ .
12 But when consumers have a choice which includes widely different types of credit arrangements , it may often be more sensible for them to give more weight to the total cost of credit or the amount of each instalment .
13 In particular , indirect attempts to uncover the phenomenon have been made by Crenson and others , but these have tended to founder on the difficulties of separating the notion of a ‘ latent issue ’ , for which one relies on observation of declared but otherwise undeveloped wishes of significant actors , from that of ‘ real interests ’ , which introduces altogether different problems of method , and of course takes one completely out of the field of behaviourism .
14 The search space was organised around a global uniform data-base , the blackboard , and so different configurations of knowledge bases could easily be tested .
15 But there are then crucially different phases of commodity production .
16 Two types of feature were surveyed and they required somewhat different accuracies of determination : nick points and terraces .
17 It is commonplace for me to step outside the door in the morning intending to do one particular task , and then to come back in for a lunchtime bowl of soup having done three or four entirely different jobs of maintenance or repair .
18 They could nonetheless claim with justice that if these topics were handled in isolation from each other , by specialists in Educational Psychology , in various methodologies , in literacy , or in English as a Foreign Language , nobody except the student herself was in a position to discern a relationship between and among topics taught by different people , at different stages of her course , and at extremely different levels of sophistication .
19 We have just suggested that one way of interpreting these apparently different patterns of error in the production of open and closed class lexical items is to argue for the existence of two separate vocabularies which are accessed during the production of spoken language .
20 Excluding the interesting view of God offered by the various sects , there are apparently different forms of theism promoted by Jews , Christians , Moslems , Sikhs , Hindus and perhaps Buddhists in Britain alone .
21 These constraints were , of course , apparent when Partnerships were created in 1977 : attempts to bring together different tiers of government and different departments of either local or central administration have proved consistently complex to implement .
22 So the first stage of identifying modern multimedia is to focus on its power to draw together different forms of communication , smoothly integrating them within a digital environment , and providing access to the stored information using computer systems which are fast , friendly and , above all , interactive .
23 This made it possible to group together different types of service ( InterCity 's identity was first established on this basis ) and look at their costs and revenues in a sensible manner .
24 As a guide in setting a monthly repayment level that suits you , the enclosed table gives examples of how long different levels of borrowing will take to repay .
25 ‘ I think it might be a reaction but I think we 'll find they do all different kinds of music as they go on .
26 But the question is , what is involved in the assumption that there are different ontological existents not just different topics of discourse ; what conditions must be fulfilled before such an assumption can make clear sense ?
27 Most of the vital questions as to how these skills are acquired , how they are to be selected and adjusted according to context , how easily or not different kinds of school environment can accommodate them and so on , are begged .
28 It was interesting to note that 84 per cent had had three or more different types of experience .
29 Such examples suggest a strong case for claiming that the existence of deeply different forms of life constitutes a formidable barrier to a theory of international relations .
30 The organization of the new regiment was somewhat confused as there were two totally different tables of establishment .
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