Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] a [adj] contrast " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his buoyant narrative style , his particularly exact , observant eye for detail , his confident concentration on a particular event coloured by emotion but not by an intensity of analysis , he offers a significant contrast to Conrad 's dense , probing accounts of similar events . |
| 2 | It forms an interesting contrast to both the contemporary communities of the Essenes and to current Marxist ideas . |
| 3 | It presents a sharp contrast to similar houses occupied by their Welsh or English neighbours , divided into flats for nuclear units of mother-father-child or mother-child . |
| 4 | It is in fact of native Aryan origin and , with the dignity it confers on the crime against nature , it presents a marked contrast to the equivalent Semitic myth , the myth of the Fall . |
| 5 | He notes a sharp contrast between the expectations of pupils , parents and teachers about the importance of qualifications and their real significance ( Cumin , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | It provides a good contrast to more elaborate music . |
| 7 | It provides a great contrast to many other parts of England . |
| 8 | It makes a good contrast to all those clean white jackets on normal club nights . |
| 9 | It makes an illuminating contrast having Ives 's much more idiosyncratic setting of At the River as well as Copland 's . |