Example sentences of "a different story " in BNC.
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| 1 | His poetry tells a different story : there was wide and profound sentience — of man and nature , of beauty and the beast , of times and seasons , of perception and tactility , of hearing and tasting , and smelling ; at the bottom of which remains an unresolved questing , a whole gamut of unanswered questions which drove at the very heart of what he most wished to believe . |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been a different story if the brewery had done the earlier repairs . ’ |
| 3 | The following day at Murrayfield Racers was a different story as Devils out-shot ( 40 to 24 ) , out-thought and outplayed the Scots . |
| 4 | But all this is a different story , for the bomber aircrews not only had better aircraft to take the war to Berlin , they had better navigational aids , better weaponry , the Pathfinder Force , radio counter-measures , better planning and a host of other factors to make them more effective . |
| 5 | Gradually it began to dawn on me that while in the celluloid world all things were possible , in the other world it was quite a different story . |
| 6 | He detected no atmosphere of ‘ them and us ’ , though he suspects that in similar circumstances today it might be a different story . |
| 7 | It would have been a different story if they 'd had to find the key money for the flat themselves . |
| 8 | But inside the house it was a different story ; there was n't much space at all . |
| 9 | He untangles his father 's early life — tangled chiefly by Brynner himself who always told interviewers a different story — from Switzerland to the farthest reaches of Russia and then to Paris as a teenager in the Thirties , where he joined a Romany gypsy troupe . |
| 10 | Yes , said his critics , but it was a different story if anyone tried to get access to the information behind those methods . |
| 11 | Mr George Ryde , TGWU national secretary for civil aviation , said : ‘ Our members are involved in almost every aspect of airport work , and they tell a different story to the public relations myth that nothing is spared in providing passengers with maximum security . |
| 12 | That apart , the figures from the 15 largest privatisations since 1981 and the two public sale-like floats — TSB and Abbey National — also tell a different story from the image which the proponents of the programme would like us to believe . |
| 13 | The figures from the 15 largest privatisations since 1981 and the two public sale-like floats — TSB and Abbey National — tell a different story from the one which the proponents of the programme would like us to believe . |
| 14 | Small and medium-sized law firms are a different story . |
| 15 | For the banks doing the taking over , it is a different story . |
| 16 | Open access may work in Britain , but in continental Europe , where there are a limited number of gas-merchant companies , it would be a different story . |
| 17 | The premature declarations of imminent victory and raising of empty hopes contained the germ of the inevitable decline in confidence which set in during the following weeks , as the news from the eastern Front told a different story . |
| 18 | If Nonconformists were slow to start , once they had they were eager to point out that while in England the Church outnumbered them ( as far as baptized members were concerned ) , in the Empire and America it was a different story as regards active members . |
| 19 | But subsequent inquiries revealed rather a different story . |
| 20 | ‘ It will be a different story at Newmarket , ’ said Hannon . |
| 21 | A detailed study of the gestation and birth of a new specialism reveals a different story . |
| 22 | Surely when we turn to such a blatantly political film as A Very British Coup , it should be a different story . |
| 23 | The practice of the police , and the case-law surrounding it , tell a different story . |
| 24 | When he rather reluctantly accepted the suggestion of another Sibelius score , En Saga , he found that ‘ the music suggested rather a different story ’ . |
| 25 | When Milton goes to a big international show it is a different story . |
| 26 | But behind the scenes it was a different story . |
| 27 | Once we stepped outside the seclusion of our HQ , however , it was a different story — we had the American Air Force to deal with . |
| 28 | But on 17 January , 1983 , days after the story of the ban and recriminations had been published in an article in Science , Johanson told a class at Stanford University a different story . |
| 29 | And The Times reported a shortage in kidneys for transplants because fewer people are dying on the roads-The figures for accidents in Greater London tell a different story . |
| 30 | Had either realized her knack of manipulating it might have been a different story , but Sarah never allowed her determination to show . |