Example sentences of "so [adj] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Their anatomy is so specialised and so different from the urodeles that they are classified in an order of their own , the caecilians . |
2 | She looked at the polished coppery band , so different from the collars Samson forged along with fetters and thumbscrews for the slave trade . |
3 | He is so different from the others , from Terry and Havvie ; he loves me truly for myself , which is the best thing of all , not because I am Papa 's rich daughter , the King 's friend . |
4 | The conditions of international science are so different from the days of Rutherford , and Appleton with their sealing wax and shoe strings . |
5 | It was so different from the rooms Xanthe and her father had taken in a former hôtel particulier of a family of the ancien régime , round a courtyard off the Rue St Honoré , with ormolu chests of drawers , lace-trimmed bolsters and a chiming clock on the writing desk in the small , light sitting room where stood striped chintz chairs with gilded lyre backs and a matching silk-covered settee . |
6 | This stems not so much from the differences between conservatives and socialists as from the clash between British attitudessupported by the managements of some American multinational companies — and those of much of the rest of the Community . |
7 | Gould 's impatience and his disappointment stemmed not so much from the fruits of his collecting , but from the frustration of inactivity and the miscarriage of a good project . |
8 | The real restriction of his freedom arose not so much from the restraints of his colleagues as front the fact that his Plymouth speech inevitably created an election atmosphere which he found difficult to control . |
9 | In developing societies , primary education appears to be more of a social investment than individual consumption , while in affluent societies the demand for education may not come so much from the needs of the economy as from the demands of individual people . |
10 | O God , give your grace to the United Nations Organisation in all its manifold work ; in its work for the children who suffer so much from the injustices of our society , in education and in health , in the relief of poverty and hunger , and in its work for peace . |
11 | But her novels are not nearly so remote from the realities of her time as is often claimed . |