Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] different [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a wide range of stoves on the market from cheap to expensive , using a variety of different fuels such as butane , propane and butane mixtures , petrol ( or similar ) , meths and paraffin . |
| 2 | Even though the table excludes those unable to give an appropriate answer on both occasions the answers which were given could mean a variety of different things ; for example , that the respondent really was feeling worried when she said so , or that she thought ‘ worried ’ meant something else , or that she thought the answer meant something else , or that she answered at random . |
| 3 | Any group viewing a classroom recording is likely to notice a variety of different things . |
| 4 | Yes , so they had did have a variety of different things you you could er be |
| 5 | Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future . |
| 6 | Similar decreases in heart disease mortality and stroke mortality have been observed in a variety of different countries ( Smith and Jacobson 1988 ) , although the decreases observed in the United Kingdom have been less dramatic than those recorded in some other countries . |
| 7 | I mean yes of course we should live harmoniously together er who would y'know , sector of those people who have taken advantage of the right to buy and and so on and so forth but we talking about housing management in about housing management costs and if you have an estate of y'know being repaired similar houses which a lot of our estates are , it makes sense that they 're managed as it were centrally er and because that 's the most efficient way of doing it erm if you have a variety of different landlords in er one estate or one street and all the houses are similar , when it comes to things like modernisation and so forth it it 's duplicated a great deal of er er er of work and it is not cost efficient and it does n't make any common sense at all . |
| 8 | Until the mid-seventeenth century the essential distinction ( oversimplifying somewhat ) was that between ambassadors , either ordinary ones resident for some length of time or extraordinary ones sent for some special and limited purpose , and lesser diplomatic representatives referred to by a variety of different titles — resident , minister , agent , etc . |
| 9 | but through the compromise and agreement of a variety of different groups . |
| 10 | Jacobitism became attractive to a variety of different groups in the 1690s , including commonwealth Whigs , although at this time it still had little support in society at large . |
| 11 | He is constantly making connections — pulling apparently disconnected experiences together , and synthesising a variety of different views . |
| 12 | These defences seldom attempted to enclose the total area of occupation , partly because of its pre-existing shape and extent , and partly because the defences were designed to perform a variety of different functions , many of which fell in the official sphere . |
| 13 | All ISE members are entitled to trade on LTOM , where they can undertake a variety of different functions ranging from broking through to market making and clearing . |
| 14 | After investing £15 million in a variety of different schemes over the previous six years , and just when developments were looking promising , the government 's funding ( channelled through the Energy Technology Support Unit , part of the Harwell-based UK Atomic Energy Authority ) was cut . |
| 15 | In attempting to establish the prevalence of dementia a variety of different instruments have been used to identify the presence/absence of the condition . |
| 16 | A variety of different studies have illustrated that the distribution of dependency also varies within the long-term care sector ( Bennet 1986 ; Harrison et al . |
| 17 | As illustrated in the first chapter , formal community care services are provided by a variety of different agencies . |
| 18 | It is obvious that the same types of care are being provided by a variety of different agencies . |
| 19 | Social care is being provided by a variety of different agencies . |
| 20 | Each panelinha tries to represent a range of occupations , such as doctor , lawyer , banker , engineer , architect and a variety of different businesses . |
| 21 | Sociology is a pluralistic discipline with different norms , etc. prevailing in relation to a variety of different approaches . |
| 22 | It may be that a variety of different approaches is considered appropriate . |
| 23 | These propositions have been hotly debated and a variety of different responses were soon forthcoming ( see Bury 1988 ) . |
| 24 | In work on anaphor resolution , the democratic approach seems to have originated with the non-computational work of Kantor ( 1977 ) , who defined ‘ concept activatedness ’ as the net effect of a variety of different factors . |
| 25 | The diet that we eat is influenced by a variety of different factors , both consciously and subconsciously . |
| 26 | for a variety of different contracts er my last presentation was a site meeting last Thursday |
| 27 | Marketers in Companies supplying industrial goods markets have therefore to accept that the situations faced by their companies in these markets are subject to a variety of different contingencies ( Or specific circumstances ) . |
| 28 | Your local pet shop is likely to have a variety of different collars available . |
| 29 | Since a variety of different routes into the city had to be accommodated and since the planners envisaged a station of massive proportions a central city site proved impossible . |
| 30 | The scale of the problem has been estimated by a variety of different surveys . |