Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] different [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Once again there are different ways in which such data are used , but all share the object of analysing the data anew , using them for different purposes than originally intended .
2 Another problem with doing these talks is working out at what level I should pitch them for different age groups .
3 Thus it might be that the old English case of Woodhouse v Brotherhood 1972 ] ICR 186 would be decided the same way under the Directive , because the facts , as found in that case , were that the transferee employer used the factory and the machines to produce different products from those made by the transferor and sold them in different markets .
4 People always will want horses but they want them in different forms at different times .
5 She made appointments to meet me at different places : restaurants , art galleries .
6 She received random bits of memory , tried them in different patterns , hoping to make sense .
7 The turbulence will have carried them over different paths .
8 There is indeed a skill of craftsmanship in applying technology ; knowing just how far to go in programming the machine and what to do by hand ; selecting from the materials and technologies and applying them in different ways ; deciding exactly what one should attempt to achieve through technology .
9 They were , generally speaking , well informed about international politics and had a sceptical attitude to news ; they discussed their government 's internal policies and decrees , in particular relating them to different conceptions of government , freedom and justice : their talk of socialism , democracy , dictatorship was by no means purely theoretical .
10 He must know how to lift or catch her in different ways from a static position or jump without any sign of strain .
11 and they 've got it in but it wants it at different times does n't it ?
12 But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience .
13 It did not , however , initiate the longer-term processes discussed above , although it affected them in different ways — contributing to the globalization of liberal political ideas and economic policies , posing new challenges to the European integration process as the East European states seek to participate therein , and stimulating the process of fragmentation .
14 She wished suddenly that she had met him under different circumstances : not as Jenny 's boy friend ; not as her fellow beneficiary in Aunt Alicia 's will .
15 I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world .
16 These investment-people can make the capital produce more — put it into different things . ’
17 You had different , different companies do the , do the job so you used to get say I mean th you get a receiver for that cargo , well it , perhaps he got so much for receiving that cargo , then that was his job then to allocate it to different people but he , cos that was another job for him which you do n't do now .
18 It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below .
19 The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names .
20 In another language where mother 's brothers and father 's brothers are referred to by different words we would see them as different kinds of relatives .
21 If you want one type of match one or another then you specify them in different rows .
22 Separating sheep from goats within a school was little better than separating them into different schools .
23 In music of this century , composers have cultivated melodic ‘ growth ’ by choosing a specific group of notes , and then , by presenting them in different orders or different rhythmic shapes , created melody which proliferates from what may be only a very limited stock of initial material .
24 The system can understand spoken utterances by simultaneously analysing them at different levels ( including syntax and semantics ) , and then combining the results .
25 In other words , even if you have saved your document more than once , you will have two versions altogether , but no more ; unless you save them under different filenames .
26 So her shops with their carefully designed clothes sat on top of great orders for dresses and suits that Belmodes made for a handful of big stores who marketed them under different trade names , sometimes their own , but never Belmodes .
27 erm And he describes them in these terms because of course this is how he sees them from different angles while rounding a series of bends on the road , so that in fact he describes the movement which his senses perceive , not the solid immobility to which his intellect testifies .
28 you ought to see what she er , you ought to see her outfit she 's got , she 's nearly going around er , oh he , he can see her with different outfits on
29 Charnos have taken the microfibre story and turned it into different leg looks — shiny , matt and suede — using the softer , finer handle and textures now available , the products can achieve that smoother than silk feel .
30 Wittgenstein says that in addition to interpreting ( = treating , applying ) the figure in different ways , we can also see it in different ways : now as one thing , now as another .
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