Example sentences of "distinguish [pron] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action .
2 Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth .
3 It is the overdetermined character of the materialist dialectic that distinguishes it from the Hegelian dialectic .
4 The fact that it aims to provide a systematic account of time use is what distinguishes it from the literary diary .
5 It is the ability of love to transform in this way that , in Tillich 's view , distinguishes it from the Buddhist concept of compassion .
6 And since the effect would be to put off the catastrophe indefinitely , since Capitalism could now continue by reason of policies which provided also a solution to the problem of unemployment , Empirical Socialism need no longer distinguish itself from the Marxist version solely by the method and pace of change , by being evolutionary rather than revolutionary .
7 While we have examined Oakeshott as a conservative thinker therefore we must be careful to distinguish him from the religious conservatism of Burke and from the mainstream forms of conservatism which Huntington identified in the aristocratic and situational theories as ideological defences of the ancien régime or of established institutions .
8 The reason is that these colleges agreed to be pilots for a new form of subject assessment described as ‘ intensive ’ to distinguish it from the usual sampling method by which visits take place .
9 The ratio is said to be a matter of ‘ commercial prudence ’ and is said to be ‘ non-mandatory ’ to distinguish it from the possible alternative , namely , that the ratio be written into banking law .
10 In WORDWISE + , if the user presses the f1 key and types in , at the beginning of the document LM10 ( this appears in green letters to distinguish it from the actual text )
11 The use of the New Style calendar ( to distinguish it from the Old Style , or Julian , calendar ) was ordered by Pope Gregory XIII on 24 February 1582 .
12 To distinguish it from the medieval part of the college which hugs the splendid fifteenth-century cloisters , they called it New Buildings .
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