Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a different [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But here I must draw a distinction of rather a different kind , namely that between biological relationship and social relationship . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And another highlight , though of quite a different kind , was in store next . |
| 4 | An insight of quite a different kind emerges from a comparison of table 6.8c with table 6.8a and b . |
| 5 | Amid the flood of new text books and monographs there occasionally appear books of quite a different character which , if of suitable quality , are a valuable supplement to the more traditional undergraduate literature . |
| 6 | Another unexpected and disturbing event , though of quite a different order , occurred one evening in 1973 when I was preparing the late night showing of 24 Hours . |
| 7 | Leaning over the glass counter of his booth , the young man in charge was deep in conversation with an elderly gentleman draped with cameras , and she was gazing into the face of quite a different person . |
| 8 | Ted 's killing is of quite a different nature . |
| 9 | A further reason was that the Bank might wish to influence the net inflow of funds to the UK by means of either a different application in respect of the type of deposits , or a different rate of call . |
| 10 | If an insect blunders into it the owner will rush out , deliver a swift poisoned bite to her victim and then wrap it in bonds of yet a different silk and carry it away for consumption at leisure . |
| 11 | My American competitors operate against yet a different set of expectations and criteria of success . |
| 12 | This emphasis on " coherence " , rather than " cohesion " , would take the workshop into quite a different area ; an area where it would be informed by relevant stylistic work on , for example , plot structure ( Stubbs 1982 ) discourse structure ( Hoey 1989 ) and semantic-relational structure ( Crombie 1989 ) . |
| 13 | The inspection and the self-appraisal seemed to be two entirely different processes : each operated with quite a different agenda and entirely different methods were used in each case . |
| 14 | He told the Street 's fan magazine that the soap was envisaged as lasting only 13 episodes — of which Warren wrote 12 — and with quite a different name . |
| 15 | Another magazine featured her popular lace insert blouse on a well-endowed model who wore no bra underneath , with quite a different effect from that intended . |
| 16 | Now he lifted the whisk and moved to flick the stiff little brush with swift , sure gestures over the casing of the demi-divine dead paladin , commencing at his massive shoulders , descending reverently to his feet , almost as if dusting him — yet with quite a different consequence . |
| 17 | Sociologists ' strictures about loss of familiarity due to the disruption to social life , as in the study of Bethnal Green ( Young and Wilmott , 1957 ) , at first went largely unheeded , though their conclusions were unmistakable : Abercrombie 's Greater London Plan had now to be looked at in rather a different light . |
| 18 | In quite a different vein , one teacher in a workshop described how she spent part of each weekend visiting old people in her community . |
| 19 | ‘ In-deed ? ’ commented Lady Danby in quite a different tone . |
| 20 | In quite a different category from any of the above , this military formation was a successor to the 14 Grenadier Division der Waffen SS ( Galizien ) , which had suffered very heavy losses at Brody in July 1944 . |
| 21 | The " Russkii Korpus " , nominally the last surviving unit of the Imperial Russian army , was again in quite a different category from any of the formations mentioned above . |
| 22 | To consider the hypothesized eastward moving segments of lithosphere in Mongolia and China as involving ‘ micro-plates ’ is to employ the term ‘ plate ’ in quite a different sense from its original definition . |
| 23 | The public invisibility and the self-policing that are so central to lesbian and gay oppression place us in quite a different position , socially and economically , from each of these other groups . |
| 24 | The results showed that the orbitosphenoid in amphisbaenians , though apparently homologous to the same structure in lizards , is formed in quite a different way . |
| 25 | Indeed , it was the same social and economic variables ( low socio-economic status and powerlessness ) that ‘ explained ’ crime ( though in quite a different way — by increasing vulnerability to labelling rather than by increasing actual deviation ) . |
| 26 | A screen , on the other hand , not only has a specific function , but is also an integral part of the overall design , and will therefore be looked at in quite a different way . |
| 27 | " Only that you are unhappy and probably care for Mr Amsterdam in quite a different way . " |
| 28 | Kroch and Small ( 1978 ) extend the application of quantitative methods in quite a different way , taking as their data base several hours of talk-show ( phone-in ) conversation from a Philadelphia radio station . |
| 29 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |
| 30 | So perhaps you feel that while all this talk about kinship and affinity may make good sense in discussions of the social life of Australian Aborigines or of Trobriand Islanders in Melanesia , it really has very little relevance for ourselves who live in a social context in which , as a general rule , affinity is of little significance and the majority of social relationships outside the domestic family are coded in quite a different way . |