Example sentences of "[adj] from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I did n't see this from the decks of the Mantel a but from a twenty-one-foot sailing boat , Faalifu III , piloted skilfully by a skipper wearing white shorts , a kind of woollen T-shirt and a saucy sailor 's cap — Lucy Young . |
| 2 | These codes are quite different from the models of poetics because they can not be reduced to a structure , and consequently the text itself can not in turn be reduced to a structural homology of a code . |
| 3 | For , plainly , such a procedure and the acknowledgement of either authoritative text or persons involve the existence of rules of a type different from the rules of obligation or duty which ex hypothesi are all that the group has . |
| 4 | The make-up of the Glasgow head office committee is slightly different from the committees at Craigforth , branches and regional sales centres . |
| 5 | Again , this is not radically different from the attitudes of many parents towards children of higher intelligence , who believe that their children should experience pre-school education , perhaps attending a play school or nursery from the age of three onwards , and then encouraging them to pursue further education at school leaving age . |
| 6 | We come here to what seems to me to be the central dilemma in second language pedagogy : the conditions appropriate for acquiring communicative resources are different from the conditions of their use . |
| 7 | In fact , with the exception of the occasional exotic demand , such as orchids from Singapore for Elena , Marin 's job was little different from the agents of the other communist élites placed in Western Europe to provide the videotape recorders and other appurtenances of power for the nomenklatura from East Berlin to Moscow and beyond . |
| 8 | The result is that the final confrontation with the evil Sangrado , the melodramatic scene of occult horror from which Margarita is rescued and the revelation of her true identity , take on a particular sharpness of surprise , a tone of active , romantic effort quite different from the tensions of Sard 's wanderings . |
| 9 | This approach to marketing is called the ‘ marketing concept ’ and its perspective is radically different from the approaches of production , product and sales-orientated organizations . |
| 10 | In what way was the economic environment which fostered search in Britain different from the preconditions of headhunting in the USA ? |
| 11 | In my own work with Japanese quail I have found that this process may lead to a preference for a partner that is slightly novel — just a bit different but not too different from the members of the opposite sex it knew when it was young ( Bateson , Mate Choice ) . |
| 12 | The block in which I lived was no different from the others in that tight area of mean dilapidated streets . |
| 13 | Firstly , it is inadvisable to take remedies consisting of mixtures as no homoeopathic provings have been done on mixtures and it is not known whether the effects of these are different from the effects of their individual components . |
| 14 | After all , the likely effects over three or four years of coming into contact with one or two class readers which blatantly fail to meet the needs of boys or girls will be qualitatively different from the effects of , say , every other one being of this kind . |
| 15 | This is , of course , scarcely different from the effects of frugivorous birds as set out in Chapter 6 . |
| 16 | The effect of the load is probably somewhat different from the variations of pressure set up by breaking waves , which may dislodge jointed blocks . |
| 17 | It had forty titles ( different from the classifications of Bernard of Pavia , therefore ) and it dissected the letters , by putting the same decretal under different titles according to context . |
| 18 | Physicists envisage this in two apparently different ways : either as streams of particles known as photons ( which are quite different from the particles of which atoms are composed ) ; or as waves . |
| 19 | What one expert sees as the organisational goals are different from the views of another expert . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course , it is possible for centres to use assessment instruments which are different from the ones in the module descriptor — but permission for this change MUST be obtained from SCOTVEC in advance . |
| 21 | ‘ Humans out here might be different from the ones in the Store , ’ he snapped . |
| 22 | On the other hand , if there is a profusion of funds which are not consolidated , then the fund accounts will be very different from the accounts of a business . |
| 23 | Everything at Berbera was unfamiliar and exciting : the barren , burnt-up countryside , so very different from the highlands of Abyssinia ; the camel herds at the wells ; the gaunt , half-naked Somalis with great mops of hair , leaning on their spears and talking a harsh incomprehensible language ; the bugle calls ; the uniformed troops drilling on their parade ground , and especially an evening when they staged for us a realistic attack with blank ammunition on a position " held " by tribesmen . |
| 24 | The fast process would ensure that each cortical neuron tended to respond to an input feature that was different from the features of other cortical neurons . |
| 25 | The voices of the stallholders jangled against one another , urging and inviting , different from the voices of the stall-holders at the Easter Fete . |
| 26 | However , it should not be forgotten that the unofficial populist ideas of the rank and file , particularly with regard to anti-semitism , unemployment and political violence , were often significantly different from the formulations of the leadership . |
| 27 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 28 | Tony , are schools today very different from the schools of the past ? |
| 29 | Again , the point I want to make here is that the perceptual , cognitive understanding of the expression of emotions in non-verbal ways from pictures , cards , etc. is very different from the expressions of the materials with one 's own hands or face or body ( p. 320 ) . |
| 30 | The strain of the foster colony is chosen for good mothering ability and preferably the coat colour should be different from the animals to be fostered , or the mating arranged so that the natural young of the foster mother are not of the same coat colour as the pups to be fostered . |