Example sentences of "very different [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey . |
| 2 | Finally , suppose that the upstream firm 's product has two uses with very different elasticities of demand . |
| 3 | But how and why this atomistic temporal concept , which Buddhism used for its own purposes , was adapted to the very different objects of Islam remains an open question . |
| 4 | First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept . |
| 5 | Even states with very different forms of life and different moral world views do in fact behave in similar ways . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most telling lesson of the past forty years has been the recognition that very different forms of life are built around essentially similar molecular mechanisms . |
| 7 | But our experience is that this sort of ad this sort of presentation interviewing those sorts of things , they 're very different forms of presentation . |
| 8 | Eliot 's concern that his own urban society be well founded on a necessary myth was accentuated by the realization that this society was now annihilating other very different forms of civilization . |
| 9 | Separate designs were evolved for the very different conditions of forest and savannah . |
| 10 | And so ‘ the war ’ continues , to polling day and beyond , as back in Britain , Paddy , Neil and John conclude their very different conflict of camera angles and weasel words . |
| 11 | Tt er if , if , if you go back to some of the things we were looking at last term er er this idea of commercialization tt er argue that the south was a very different type of country to the north , that it is commercialized at least to a much greater extent |
| 12 | This was a very different type of nationalism from that which had produced the United States of America , and one which it is not easy to explain , as has sometimes been attempted , in terms of Gandhi 's attachment to traditional Hindu notions of self-purification . |
| 13 | It is n't a P S V license now , it 's very different type of licence . |
| 14 | Sheffield was a very different type of town , but like most other places that developed into great Victorian cities it had already had a long history as a market and craft centre . |
| 15 | The areas chosen for the case studies — in Lombardy and Emilia — are intended to reflect very different patterns of modernisation ; the first , relatively slow and perhaps therefore politically stable ; the second , remarkably rapid and perhaps therefore producing class polarisation and a high level of political militance expressed through the passage from socialism to fascism , and then to communism . |
| 16 | When he finally spoke , it was in a very different tone of voice — detached , but totally decisive . |
| 17 | ‘ At least you 're not indifferent to me , ’ he said at last , in a very different tone of voice . |
| 18 | ‘ Then let me remind you , ’ Julius said in a very different tone of voice . |
| 19 | ‘ Good morning , Julius , ’ she said , in a very different tone of voice . |
| 20 | One of the drawbacks of A level is that because it is an examination to be taken at a particular time , namely after two years of study in the sixth form ( there are exceptions to this , but such is the general rule ) it is taken by people who are at very different stages of development , of readiness for the examination , and , above all , of interest in the subject matter . |
| 21 | Schools seemed to be at very different stages of development and sophistication here , with some proposals incorporating details of taxonomies of the skills to be developed , while others made general statements of intent about ill-defined programmes of study or library skills . |
| 22 | Richard Kinsey 's final warning is that while it would be inappropriate to translate research conducted in Scotland to England , ‘ vice versa you can not generalise from the experience south of the Border to Scotland where we have a very different style of policing , a very different system of juvenile justice and a very different welfare structure . ’ |
| 23 | Thus we can see a very different style of behaviour resulting from a change in the budgetary environment . |
| 24 | It 's a very different style of driving . |
| 25 | The debate is interesting , for it becomes evident that women who count themselves feminists may otherwise have a very different sense of reality . |
| 26 | I suggested that the insistent gaze , the awareness of detail , were of the kind we associate with love or hate , while the persistent emphasis on traps or limits that can never be crossed belonged rather with the very different forces of pity or fear . |
| 27 | The Latin origins of the Roman Catholic Church would have dictated a very different shape of moustache and this is perhaps why priests are not permitted to sport this form of decoration . |
| 28 | Although not profitable in the first year of acquisition , BMK with its complementary customer base and very different range of production equipment , will greatly strengthen us in the longer term . |
| 29 | The very different behaviour of coordinate time t and the proper time τ when the probe approaches and crosses the horizon illustrates vividly how spacetime curvature makes it impossible to cover all space–time with one set of Cartesian coordinates . |
| 30 | One would not suggest that they did not hold the Muftilik , but one can suggest that they held a very different kind of Muftilik from that held by Fahreddin Acemi . |