Example sentences of "different [noun] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could look for an alternative course at a different university or college . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the different rewards and promotion systems appropriate to Japanese industry , founded in part upon an acceptance by management of the need to enhance the welfare of all permanent employees , reflect quite different values to those of US management : ‘ The example of Japan , therefore , indicates the importance of general social and cultural factors in influencing the thrust and direction of strategic managerial thinking ’ ( Thurley and Wood , 1983 , p. 213 ) . |
| 3 | There is nothing superficial in comparing works of different times and cultures , so long as one is not making glib suggestions of direct linkages between them . |
| 4 | It is that of ‘ a thinking , intelligent being , that has reason and reflection , and can consider itself as itself , the same thinking thing in different times and places ’ . |
| 5 | ( v ) National claims summarize complex economic and social interests and classes , a coalition that is rarely the same in different times and places ; so ‘ nationalism , does not , in and of itself , indicate any self-evident aims . |
| 6 | Craft work ; women 's crafts as they are designated in different times and places , such as midwifery , sewing , cooking , undertaking , writing . |
| 7 | We must criticise explanations of difference that treat gender as something obvious , static and monolithic , ignoring the forces that shape it and the varied forms they take in different times and places . |
| 8 | We were aware that women have exercised and do exercise certain kinds of power given particular social arrangements ; we were aware too of the need for new ways of thinking about power which would allow us to answer questions about women 's authority , power , influence and status in different times and places . |
| 9 | As a result of acquiring writing ‘ one can compare side by side utterances that have been made at different times and places ’ ( 1977 , pp. 11 — 12 ) . |
| 10 | One can , for instance , easily imagine circumstances in which oral utterances including recollections from different times and places are , as it were , placed side by side as in a debating chamber and where the listeners could then recognise contradictions and employ their ‘ critical ’ faculties . |
| 11 | This unconscious repressed material is in addition to the general unconscious ‘ archaic heritage ’ Le Bon speaks of , and it can vary in different times and places , although Freud does not give explicit examples of this point , being content with the formal delineation of concepts . |
| 12 | In presenting a philosophical argument , however , the writer can range over different times and places within a single paragraph , but must mark out changes in the direction of his argument . |
| 13 | It had been his responsibility to take all the different times and sightings of Drew , and rationalise them . |
| 14 | Managers have different talents and abilities , and what may work for one may not work for another . |
| 15 | Winch 's argument has notable relativistic implications for the study of international relations , where there are systematically different ideologies and world views . |
| 16 | One group spent a long time comparing the different notes or tones produced when tubes of different width and length were blown or spoken down . |
| 17 | A FERRY company which revived the traditional Burntisland-Granton crossing of the Firth of Forth two years ago is to operate on a different route because passenger carryings were lower than expected . |
| 18 | For example , if the proposed route of the march takes the participants past an embassy or a particular factory against whose occupants the organisers wish to protest , the prescription of a different route or terminus may obviate the whole point of the demonstration , and amount to in effect a disguised ban . |
| 19 | It may be the case that adjacent maps use different projections or scales . |
| 20 | It may have something to do with the different preparation and coating techniques of the lacquer painters . |
| 21 | The poster shows 25 faces of different ages and races . |
| 22 | Although there are bound to be difficulties in comparing different ages and periods , such as different definitions of crime , different measuring techniques and a lack of adequate records and poor communications in previous times , an impression of the style and extent of crime — and of the popular concern about it — can nevertheless be formed . |
| 23 | People of different ages and sex expend different amounts of energy and some people are more physically active than others . |
| 24 | The Atapeuerca skeletal sample is large by the standards of any other Middle Pleistocene hominid site , so it provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the internal morphological and metrical variation of what is assumed the represent a penecontemporaneous sample of individuals of different ages and sex . |
| 25 | The concept of ‘ development themes ’ was central to our thinking Once these were identified , suitable approaches could be considered for different ages and stages in the curriculum and ‘ topic webs ’ produced . |
| 26 | The woods worst affected by the storms were those with mainly uniform , planted stands of trees , whereas those comprising trees of different ages and species were better able to withstand the high winds . |
| 27 | It attempts , in some measure , to meet the learning needs of people of different ages and interests . |
| 28 | There are three issues you have to sort out at different ages and phases of your child 's development , and they involve the following questions : |
| 29 | They have the problem of learning the basic skills of teaching , of keeping order , of creating varied and interesting lessons , of the kind of language that is suitable to different ages and levels of achievement , of pacing and of developing the vital intuitive sense of how much you can get done in forty or seventy minutes . |
| 30 | It draws on the real experience of a large number of teachers , and is illustrated throughout with samples of work by students of different ages and levels . |