Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [art] different [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is necessary to rely on the accounts published since the embargo on absolute secrecy was lifted in 1977 , and there seems little advantage in repeating here what has been told so well already ; and , after all , this book has quite a different purpose .
2 But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance .
3 The second half of the definition introduces quite a different concept ; development here means not a physical operation but a change in the use of a piece of land or a structure .
4 These reunite into a single large body of water just north of Altdorf , and from here the river takes on a different character .
5 We may conclude then that ‘ de-industrialization ’ is meaningful as a simple description of a relentless process in which the manufacturing sector suffers declining shares of total employment , inevitably leading to the service sector capturing a greater share , but that the process takes on a different pace and complexion in different countries and places .
6 The real work of acting takes on a different dimension .
7 Moreover , the thought of having one 's own flat takes on a different vision when it is situated on a sink council estate .
8 This approach means that the task of establishing and maintaining control takes on a different form at the Delphi Centre ; the deliberate employment of ‘ control periods ’ .
9 In other words the principle of provenance which underlies archival recordkeeping takes on a different form when electronic information is being considered .
10 But here is where even the everyday eating apple takes on a different meaning according to the context .
11 FERGIE may have found it difficult to learn Her Royal Lessons , but you do n't have to be a fitness connoisseur to see that she has learned a thing or two about keeping in Of course her title of the Disappearing Duchess takes on a different meaning now a year ago it referred to her ability to lose five stones of regal flab .
12 In part two , as the Featherstonehaughs preen themselves in pristine white tuxedos , flaunting two-foot mug shots offering surrealist images of bodyless faces , hands and legs emerging and retreating , the word precious takes on a different meaning : while yet further connotations appear as the Cholmondeleys , in voluptuous crimson velvet , sensually stimulate the imagination in part three .
13 The question takes on a different quality , however , when related to regression to what was possibly a former life ( see Chapter 6 ) .
14 The massive alienation thus bred may be contained in the context of a stable economic and cultural framework , but when that stability breaks down a different picture begins to emerge .
15 Adelaida points out the different groups : the ‘ grandmothers ’ , who sit in the sun spinning and chatting ; the ‘ complete illiterates ’ , mostly older Aymara women who are making their first letters with painstaking care ; the ’ functional illiterates ’ who have had some schooling and progress more rapidly ; and the groups which practise their recently acquired literacy skills using materials on health and nutrition .
16 Each party singles out a different manifestation appropriate to its position : but ultimately both admit in a wider , more inclusive , context that there is only one god .
17 Each picks out a different type of factor and claims that it is the key to a causal understanding of the Industrial Revolution ; and in doing so , each relies on an undefended account of the assumptions that need to be embodied in satisfactory explanations .
18 Furthermore , an analysis which attempts to account for the interrelationships between syntax , semantics and discourse involves quite a different relationship between sociolinguistic and syntactic theory than is implied by one which attempts to demonstrate that alternation takes place between semantically equivalent surface forms .
19 Chairman of selectors Ted Dexter was at Lilleshall to run his eye over final preparations and said : ‘ We have had one of the most successful years at international level that we have enjoyed in recent times , but the coming tour represents quite a different challenge to the ones our players have had before . ’
20 The collection of mementos on her mantelpiece sums up the different strands of her life .
21 A sanitation field manual sets out the different types of low-cost sanitation .
22 It explains how the different types are made and what the names mean .
23 Yet the available evidence suggests rather a different model .
24 There are three stages — larva , nymph and adult — each of which quite often feeds off a different host .
25 Although more recent documents have been produced , a study of the main political parties ' policies on tax , the social security system and poverty during the 1987 General Election campaign summarises clearly the different strands of opinion expressed during the 1980s .
26 Testing is the same sort of thing but this brings out the different functions that I talked about either summations or or products .
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