Example sentences of "[adj] from [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's very different from facing a computer all day . ’ |
2 | It was no different from learning the piano or the ukelele ; it just needed practice . |
3 | It was no different from collecting the deposit on lemonade bottles . |
4 | recognition that making a generalization is different from stating a rule by arbitrary choice , or through teacher authority . |
5 | To discover the electron is rather different from discovering the kangaroo , because it is a theoretical entity inferred from certain abstruse experiments ; and Thomson 's apparently crucial experiment turned out in the twentieth century not to be so . |
6 | At first , writing a personal experience of cancer seemed little different from writing a thriller . |
7 | Renting a business property is quite different from renting a home . |
8 | Being with a prostitute is different from meeting a girl at a party and ending up in bed together , although there 's no difference in the mechanics of the sex . |
9 | But there is no trick to the business of learning lines , as you will find out as you go on — although learning lines for an audition is different from memorising a part in a play for production , because then you will be operating with other actors around you . |
10 | It is absolutely different from keeping a register of every adult in the community . |
11 | ‘ It must be very different from travelling the globe as the whiz-kid design director for one of Britain 's foremost home décor companies , ’ he observed . |
12 | Analysing a task where the main requirement is speed of response is different from analysing a task in which problem solving is required . |
13 | Trying to follow a mathematical argument is very different from following an argument that 's set down in plain English , in a qualitative way . |
14 | Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it ( s merely ‘ being sent ’ to a place , and Very little different from becoming a parcel . |
15 | Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it is merely being ‘ sent ’ to a place , and very little different from becoming a parcel |
16 | Fresh from wringing an admission of guilt from multinational competitor Hitachi ( New Scientist , 17 February , p 428 ) , the firm is now accusing a small band of its former employees in Silicon Valley of stealing trade secrets used in transferring information to and from computer discs . |
17 | The Jerusalem police force successfully applied on Oct. 7 for a Supreme Court order , which , however , received little publicity , restraining the Temple Mount Faithful from entering the site . |
18 | University libraries ( particularly those in the United States , but also in the UK ) tend to accumulate very large amounts of material indeed , as will be clear from reading the chapter on standards in this book . |
19 | For this reason I am not averse from seeing a sharpening of sentencing policy within the present law . |
20 | Like many local authorities , the minutes of the meetings of Croydon Council and its sub-committees are accessible to Councillors and Officers in electronic from using a text retrieval system . |
21 | If one were in possession of all those binary numbers in sequence , could one infer the highest level of program or , to put it another way , could one infer what the machine was actually up to in the sense of paying tax refunds to the citizens of London , as distinct from translating a book from English to Chinese ? |
22 | Most plainly , the causal circumstance fixes or secures the occurrence of just one thing , as distinct from fixing the occurrence of that thing or a second or a third or … |
23 | Furthermore , where a sale is announced to be without reserve and the seller intervenes , as distinct from withdrawing the goods from the auction , he has no right to bid so that the highest bona fide bidder will be able to treat the transaction as fraudulent ( Green v Baverstock ( 1863 ) 14 CBNS 204 ) . |
24 | One such situation is a sale under which the purchaser pays nominal consideration but assumes significant liabilities ; ( b ) imposing a time limit beyond which , except in cases of fraud and dishonesty , the purchaser is time-barred from bringing a claim ( see clause 14.1 of the standard sale agreementAppendix III ) . |
25 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that there was no rule that the Crown was exempt from giving a cross-undertaking in damages in law enforcement proceedings , but that the court had a discretion not to require the undertaking and that the discretion extended to other public authorities exercising the function of law enforcement in appropriate circumstances ; and that subject to the impact of Community law the courts should have exercised that discretion ( post , pp. 173D–F , 181G — 182B , G–H , 190D–E ) . |
26 | On the face of it , government and council publications suggest that all nursing students will be exempt from paying the council tax . |
27 | On the contrary , many followed Malthus in believing that availability of food would always tend to limit population growth , and that the ‘ iron law of wages ’ would prevent the poor from achieving a standard of living allowing diseases of malnutrition to be banished . |
28 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
29 | I would also like to say that the report does mention obligations of other interested er people like er farming groups etc. , and the National Rivers Authority to er do everything possible from stopping the parasite entering the water in the first place . |
30 | You were not likely to get rich from policing the street . |