Example sentences of "[adj] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , analysis of the interview material did not mark out the Irish women as particularly different from their British-born counterparts on any dimension of attitudes or behaviour . |
| 2 | Thus the volcanic rocks formed are drastically different from their oceanic counterparts . |
| 3 | Certainly Americans see it as being very different from their home-grown shows and for some reason they all seem to think that I ask rather cheeky questions , which I 'll take as a compliment . |
| 4 | They knew nothing of Judaism , did not feel Jewish , and yet had enough Jewish blood in them to make them somehow different from their former friends , if not quite enough for them to be welcomed unreservedly into the Jewish community . |
| 5 | His teaching was so authoritative that the people followed him because they could see it was different from their normal diet of religious half-truths . |
| 6 | The three woodpeckers are different from their nearest relatives in Java and Borneo . |
| 7 | Here , however , Christians could be found — at least in some areas — in greater concentration than in the West ; socially and culturally they were on a level not very different from their non-Christian peers . |
| 8 | Many words and terms have specific meanings in law which are different from their everyday use . |
| 9 | It has to be recognised that syllabic consonants are a problem — they are phonologically different from their non-syllabic counterparts . |
| 10 | The lands which the South Slav tribes first entered , in the middle of the first millennium AD , were geographically very different from their earlier homelands north of the Carpathians , in the Vistula basin and the Ukraine . |
| 11 | The crew were not to know that this day would be so different from their previous raid on Berlin . |
| 12 | Maybe what I was saying was n't so very different from what Old Mother Walsh had given the troops all those years ago . |
| 13 | Dona never had that problem because during her affair she entered a new and secret world that was so different from her other life . |
| 14 | The countryside here was so different from her native dales and moors . |
| 15 | She had a lot to learn about the man inside Ace Barton , world champion , and he was as different from her original crush as anyone with a modicum of brains should have expected . |
| 16 | They were nice , friendly people , with all the good-heartedness she 'd expected , but they were different from her own family . |
| 17 | The ultimate effect of a tax can be very different from its apparent effect . |
| 18 | Thus the late phases of a market culture are very different from its early phases . |
| 19 | The committees are empowered to suggest amendments , and the bill which is returned to the house ( if it ever is ) may be substantially different from its original form ; there may be a long period of debate between representatives of the two houses of the Legislature and the Executive before consensus can be reached . |
| 20 | In our view , rural development should be qualitatively different from its urban counterpart , given that the existence of narrow country lanes , agricultural activities and a dispersed settlement pattern make it necessary to develop a smaller scale pattern businesses closely related to existing enterprises . |
| 21 | Theirs is a distinctive type of cut-price retailing that emerged in Germany after the second world war and is subtly different from its American cousin . |
| 22 | ( a ) not less than 28 days before the change is implemented , of any change in the body 's name , registered office or principal office if different from its registered office ; |
| 23 | But , even assuming , first , that the oppression has indeed been lifted , second , that we can speak of , and know , a time when that desire was ever free , and third , that we can speak meaningfully of a ‘ natural ’ or a ‘ liberated ’ desire ( and my argument questions all three assumptions ) , even assuming all this , liberated desire would still always be different from its pre-oppression counterpart . |
| 24 | The CNAA 's processing of this submission was radically different from its previous practice . |
| 25 | A typical Neolithic mine is not very different from our contemporary idea of a mine even though these are over 4000 years old and the interior of the mine at Grimes Graves is shown in Figure 6.6 . |
| 26 | The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances . |
| 27 | It is very different from our usual trip programme — there is so much to do and see , and we 've been selective in choosing only the very best . |
| 28 | For instance , the curved dish-reflector principle is radically different from our own camera-eye ( we use it in radiotelescopes , and also in our largest optical telescopes because it is easier to make a large mirror than a large lens ) , and it has been independently " invented " by various molluscs and crustaceans . |
| 29 | Certainly , central banking was markedly different from our own day and monetary policy did not exist as an instrument of economic policy . |
| 30 | will be different from your one minute . |