Example sentences of "a [adj] way from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was also prepared in a different way from those drafted by the US divisions , as it had to be to give proper consideration to the problems and needs of a totally different planning environment . |
| 2 | One could say that iron filings relate to a magnet in a different way from cork to water ; that a man , bat and ball have a different relationship from man , butterfly net and butterfly . |
| 3 | Finally , pricing mechanisms operate in a different way from the formal sector , where they are fixed . |
| 4 | So there is a legal problem here ; that we treat our own species in a different way from the way we treat imported wild animals . |
| 5 | The useful book presents nutritional data on some of our common foods and drinks in a different way from the standard McCance & Widdowson tables . |
| 6 | Soricid mandibles ( and skulls ) are more common , and because of the differences in mandibular anatomy , they break in a different way from rodent mandibles : the ascending ramus is composed of thickened bars of bone , with thinner bone in between , and it is these thinner areas that are broken initially , producing holes in the ramus ( Fig. 3.14 I-J ) while leaving the processes intact . |
| 7 | Younger people have been brought up in a different way from the way our parents and grandparents were . |
| 8 | At the same time , many Democrats on the Hill very much want to show that a president of their party will deal with China in a different way from Mr Bush . |
| 9 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 10 | However : ‘ In context , the absence of clear sentence boundaries does not mean that conversation is difficult to follow : it just shows that conversation is organised in a different way from writing ’ ( Leech et al. , p. 8/7 ) . |
| 11 | We have already noted that local government operates in a different way from central government where ministers draw their executive powers from the Crown . |
| 12 | Water beds wear out in a different way from conventional beds . |
| 13 | James exploits the associative meaning of words , but in a different way from Lawrence . |
| 14 | A noun phrase in the X-position interacts semantically with see in a different way from a noun phrase in the Y-position ( the exact nature of these interactions can be considered part of the meaning of see ) . |
| 15 | Oh , he could see why it was important for Meg not to know ; she responded to things in a different way from him . |
| 16 | This is not to say that a series like Follow Me can not be used in the classroom , but it is organised in a different way from materials like Let's Watch or Video English which were made specifically for classroom use . |
| 17 | When you are talking to a teacher in school , you speak and act in a different way from when you are talking to your friends out of school . |
| 18 | Partly , this is because the author rightly recognizes that many users of the Statute Book approach it in a different way from a judge who is presented with two opposing interpretations with supporting arguments . |
| 19 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |
| 20 | In the case where Cartesian coordinates can not be used ( for example when cylindrical or spherical polar coordinates , or even ellipsoidal coordinates , are preferable ) the strain tensor must be defined in a different way from that used before . |
| 21 | In 1956 two American physicists , Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang , suggested that the weak force does not in fact obey the symmetry P. In other words , the weak force would make the universe develop in a different way from the way in which the mirror image of the universe would develop . |
| 22 | That was done a different way from the other pictures . |
| 23 | It is understandable for our staff in the offices to look at such claims in a different way from that of someone who comes in off the street . |
| 24 | I shall , of course , establish whether we can use elements of the legislative battery that is available to us in a different way from the way in which it has been used until now . |
| 25 | Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland was governed in a different way from the rest of Britain , with different administrative powers , different local government and a different structure of education . |
| 26 | They will also clarify whether such difficulties are best seen as an exaggerated form of more normal occurrences , or as arising in a different way from the mistakes made by normal people . |
| 27 | In all , 838 post-1976 imprints were identified , and in 814 instances ( 97% ) the method of acquisition was determined ; in the remaining cases , which principally concerned newspapers and serials — types of publication which are stamped in a different way from monographs — the method of acquisition could not be established in the time available . |
| 28 | It meant , in fact , that they were thinking of abstractions in quite a different way from the way we think of them . |
| 29 | It mean in fact that they were thinking of abstractions in quite a different way from the way we think of them . |
| 30 | The thing has gone on in a different way from previous years , and the outcome , as you 've observed , although the Liberal Democrats initially proposed spending at capping , they have gone down by half a million pounds . |