Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [adv] different [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever buiys them will be taking over a vastly different building from the hard working tweed factory … but that 's progress . |
| 2 | Strolling quietly together down the gravel paths of the old-fashioned Elizabethan knot garden , which was her mother 's pride and joy , Laura found the evening taking on a completely different complexion . |
| 3 | On Wednesday mornings the Piazza Garibaldi took on a completely different aspect : it was monopolized from an early hour by farmers who came to town to sell their livestock in the Mereato del Bestiame on the outskirts of the city . |
| 4 | On Hong Kong this year it took on a slightly different connotation . |
| 5 | Computerisation of the Land Registries is virtually complete , and land and charge certificates have therefore taken on a slightly different style . |
| 6 | The evening visit of Hilary Seymour-Strachey seemed to have taken on a very different character to the afternoon one of his brother and sister-in-law . |
| 7 | A text can take on a very different character through the circumstances of its circulation : when it finds publication , who publishes it , and what were the terms of its publication — for example , in a cheap edition offering wide access or an expensive limited edition intended for a specific audience . |
| 8 | Swanning around takes on a very different meaning in the American art and antiques market . |
| 9 | The body of a cat when hunting takes on a quite different demeanour to that of the same pussy when out for an idle stroll or with some other intention in mind . |
| 10 | By 1940 Nazi Germany , the Wimbledon of world politics , had started up a completely different ball game . |
| 11 | And the NAIC formula throws up a very different ranking from current widely-used measures . |
| 12 | nQue Technologies Corporation , a small Silicon Valley start-up , has mapped out a wholly different approach to the Windows-on-Unix issue so wily and obvious it 's amazing it 's taken the industry this long to come up with it . |
| 13 | NQue Technologies Corp , a Santa Clara County start-up , has mapped out a wholly different approach to the Windows-on-Unix issue so wily and obvious it 's amazing it 's taken the industry this long to come up with it . |
| 14 | The discovery was more or less accidental , because Herschel was carrying out a completely different kind of investigation . |
| 15 | Nonetheless he stands out as a prophetic beacon , a fresh and radical thinker whose radicalism did not lie in attempting a consciously ‘ modern reinterpretation ’ of Christian faith , but in struggling afresh with the heart of the matter , and charting out a very different course from those being recommended on all sides around him . |