Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In terms of the present debate between capitalism and socialism , they are fundamentally different from the prescriptions of both Karl Marx and Milton Friedman .
2 There is a fascinating groundswell of feeling on the avant-garde led by Martin Margiela with his elaborately deconstructed and reconstructed flea-market treasures for a fashion that is fundamentally different from the designerisms of the Eighties .
3 The system of self-regulatory organisations is fundamentally different from the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) in the USA .
4 There is nothing immoral about being a member of CND , but we must understand that the principles and policies of that organisation are wholly different from the principles and policies set out in the motion .
5 When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously .
6 This type of risk is rather different from the others described because the Broadway investor knows that the odds are definitely against him on every investment .
7 These codes are rather different from the grammars of structuralist poetics because they do not have the status of a model , but are instances of parole which have no ultimate langue .
8 It was all very well for the intellectuals to associate the movies with the mindless masses , but the masses who went to cinemas in the 1920s were rather different from the masses who had so enthused about films twenty years earlier .
9 I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist .
10 It seems indeed that the social categories Emily Faithfull had in mind as " compositoresses " were the educated daughters of respectable tradesmen : the only ones whose origin is known for sure , and who were ideal for the experiment , were the daughters of master printers ( rather different from the daughters of journeymen ) .
11 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 .
12 This was little different from the responses provided by younger age groups .
13 It was arranged that they would take the horses down to the railway sidings where there was enough light from the warehouses to school in the evenings , and Biddy would come twice during the week and once at the weekend , for two hours each time .
14 This is sufficiently clear from the rules relating to infant shareholders , who are liable for calls on the shares unless they repudiate the allotment during infancy or on attaining majority , and who can not recover any money which they have paid unless the shares have been completely valueless .
15 It is entirely clear from the documents in front of us in the treaty that we are enabling ourselves to have the option to opt in .
16 Ramsay MacDonald would never have exposed himself so apparently free from the burdens of state .
17 Their anatomy is so specialised and so different from the urodeles that they are classified in an order of their own , the caecilians .
18 She looked at the polished coppery band , so different from the collars Samson forged along with fetters and thumbscrews for the slave trade .
19 He is so different from the others , from Terry and Havvie ; he loves me truly for myself , which is the best thing of all , not because I am Papa 's rich daughter , the King 's friend .
20 The conditions of international science are so different from the days of Rutherford , and Appleton with their sealing wax and shoe strings .
21 It was so different from the rooms Xanthe and her father had taken in a former hôtel particulier of a family of the ancien régime , round a courtyard off the Rue St Honoré , with ormolu chests of drawers , lace-trimmed bolsters and a chiming clock on the writing desk in the small , light sitting room where stood striped chintz chairs with gilded lyre backs and a matching silk-covered settee .
22 They are not quite like anybody else , anywhere , and they are especially different from the Slavs and Turks and Arabs who occupy so much of the neighbouring part of the world .
23 The effect of the load is probably somewhat different from the variations of pressure set up by breaking waves , which may dislodge jointed blocks .
24 Although caste has survived among Goa 's Christians — who compose 40 per cent of the state 's population — their culture is almost entirely different from the Hindus surrounding them .
25 Snooping by scanner is entirely different from the pictures of the Duchess of York cavorting with her ‘ financial adviser ’ .
26 If correction techniques are employed upon the list of allowable strings , the intended word may still not be found because it is sufficiently different from the entries in the existing list of allowable strings .
27 This finding is very encouraging , but the real benefits are only evident from the activities generated following placement .
28 By 1840 Poles were almost entirely absent from the lists of Danzig merchants , were only a small minority on the list of Danzig house-owners , and were thus almost totally excluded from public life and government of the city .
29 But her novels are not nearly so remote from the realities of her time as is often claimed .
30 Recent reconnaissance has emphasized that this source was not merely remote from the centres which it served , but that it could be operated only under conditions of some rigour .
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