Example sentences of "[verb] a slightly different [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this is not generally the case , and a whole variety of GUIs have developed , each adopting a slightly different subset of these principles as guidelines . |
| 2 | The experiment by Norcross ( 1958 ) , which used a slightly different version of this procedure , produced essentially the same outcome . |
| 3 | And detailed chemical strains of the outer membrane show that it has a slightly different structure from normal unit membranes . |
| 4 | Fabius has a slightly different title from his predecessor . |
| 5 | In the foregrounding model , stylistic value has a slightly different meaning from that which it has in the " stylistic variants " model : it refers to the special act of interpretation which we make in order to make sense of what would otherwise appear strange and unmotivated . |
| 6 | Every species has a slightly different solution to the problem of getting about , and the amount of work required to go at a particular speed depends in part on how well an animal has been designed to move at that speed . |
| 7 | The challengers have also all adopted a slightly different approach to PageMaker in that they have provided many of the creation tools within the desktop publishing program rather than leaving them to the more specialised stand-alone products . |
| 8 | And here old Mother Jacobsen assumed a slightly different position in her chair to render a pompous tone . |
| 9 | Boswell amplifies in a way which casts a slightly different glow on the affair : he comments on how striking it was to hear all the aldermen of Aberdeen drinking Johnson's-health with much exclamation of the great man 's name . |
| 10 | Putting Clairmont at the centre casts a slightly different light on familiar figures : Byron seems more brutal , Mary Shelley more querulous , Percy Shelley more responsible ; and for once , her mother gets a decent mention . |
| 11 | ‘ Biogeography is a field of study which has come to assume a slightly different meaning for different disciplines . |
| 12 | Some affirmative uses give a slightly different impression from that of being able to assert the occurrence of an event because of its having been perceived — a suggestion that there is a difference between what perception would lead one to think and the way things really are : ( 85 ) Once again the direction in which something is seen to move might depend upon the ratios of firing in cells sensitive to movement in different directions , and after prolonged movement in one direction a stationary image would produce less firing in the cell which had just been stimulated more than normally , hence apparent movement in the opposite direction would be seen to occur . |
| 13 | All this involves a slightly different approach to your windsurfing . |
| 14 | This issue of the newsletter offers a slightly different view of educational research . |
| 15 | However , he had been using a slightly different definition of a black hole . |
| 16 | Because they are arranged along the animal , each of the organs receives a slightly different impression of a disturbance , allowing the animal to locate its source and built up a picture of its surroundings . |
| 17 | One gets a slightly different perspective on the question of lifting formes and chases from the women compositors questioned by Margaret Irwin in 1893 . |
| 18 | Cynics , of course , will have a slightly different idea of the plot . |
| 19 | This may well be a unique combination which will produce a slightly different organism with new characteristics . |
| 20 | figure 5.11(c) presents a slightly different possibility in which the sizes of the A and B circles have not been changed . |
| 21 | In his book , The Science of Homoeopathy , the Greek homoeopathic practitioner Vithoulkas presents a slightly different diagram in which each ascending level is shown as being within and higher than the previous one , with all of them interpenetrated by the life force . |
| 22 | Their talk and behaviour took a slightly different form from ours just as their uniforms did and for the same reason but their major premises seemed to be the same . |
| 23 | In the test phase subjects first attempted to recall the features they had written down and then performed a 4AFC recognition task attempting to identify the slide they had viewed from among three distractors showing a slightly different view of the same scene . |
| 24 | As a result , he gives a slightly different portrait of a more experimental painter , dictated less by logic than intuition , and pursuing a development which was not as rigid as the artist 's admirers would have maintained . |
| 25 | The absolute size of population gains and losses gives a slightly different picture of regional change . |
| 26 | Each definition implies a slightly different underlying concern , and each gives a slightly different answer to the questions ‘ when did deindustrialization begin ? ’ and ‘ how important is it ? ’ |
| 27 | For example , until now , ‘ budgets ’ have meant a slightly different thing in the NHS to the meaning a businessman would attach to it . |
| 28 | The second requirement is that it should be a clear expression of local preference afforded by the local planning authorities , my I think the fact that it has been promoted by the Greater York authorities , albeit some of them have erm taken a slightly different view of late , I think that is clear expression that the local , that the new settlement proposal does have a substantial local support . |
| 29 | um yeah erm yeah it may be um given that you 've er kind of er divided it up into into sections erm I think er maybe you could you could adopt a slightly different format for a different section or something like that so people y'know kind of get into section two and it 's a wee bit different , it 's a wee bit more er y'know |
| 30 | On account of their different magnetic properties , weight and velocities , the carbon-12 ions follow a slightly different course from their radioactive counterparts and can thus be separated . |