Example sentences of "[noun pl] make a distinction " in BNC.

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1 All of the reviewers of the studies make a distinction between those studies which are scientifically sound and those which are not .
2 The importance of the level of expertise for professional power has led some writers to make a distinction between professions and semi-professions , with doctors and lawyers in the former category but social workers and teachers in the latter .
3 The same basic point holds even if the theory of social representations makes a distinction between the common sense of former times and modern , non-commonsensical thinking .
4 This has led to researchers making a distinction between central and peripheral information in a scene and the assumption that arousal will impair memory for peripheral details but improve it for central ones ( see particularly Christianson , in press ) .
5 For example there are echoes of colonial discourse in the way the boys make a distinction between the ‘ good blacks ’ ( who accept the verdict of the first , lost fight ) and the ‘ bad blacks ’ who cry foul and fight back , trying to reverse the verdict of a society which has made them permanent losers .
6 Regarding business secrets , a problem which arises in practice is the necessity in employment cases to make a distinction between what is a business secret and what is simply the general skill of the employee .
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