Example sentences of "distinguish between [art] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He distinguished between the 1960s and the 1970s , arguing that the balance of significant factors had shifted between the two periods .
2 WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Prince Charles ‘ is incapable of distinguishing between the good and the bad , only between what looks old and what looks new … ’
3 The student , who usually can not distinguish between the judicious and the injudicious sorts , should avoid levity altogether .
4 England is one of the few countries in which the legal tradition provides a test which can distinguish between the natural and the unnatural , the civilised and the barbarous .
5 She reformed the religious life of her time for both men and women , teaching them to distinguish between a good and an unhealthy spirituality .
6 It is not easy to distinguish between the first and the second categories : Reynolds could well have belonged to both .
7 The purpose of the Bill is to distinguish between the bogus and the genuine refugee applicant .
8 It is customary for historians to distinguish between the ordinary and the extraordinary revenues of the Crown , between , that is to say , its recurrent , peacetime income and those occasional sums derived during wars or other emergencies from parliamentary grants or benevolences .
9 By breaking up the word ‘ gentleman ’ and inserting the word ‘ Christian ’ , Dickens forces the reader to distinguish between the social and the moral ‘ gentleman ’ .
10 But Spenser also makes it clear that it is difficult and sometimes impossible to distinguish between the true and the false , regardless of how clear-sighted and self-controlled his masculine knights may be .
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