Example sentences of "distinguish it from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind ; Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts , and in particular promoted the neo-romantics . |
| 2 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 3 | The term conversation is widely used , in a non-technical sense , and people seem capable of distinguishing it from other kinds of talk . |
| 4 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |
| 5 | We have so far been considering the extent to which the intentional ingredient in natural language distinguishes it from other systems of animal communication . |
| 6 | Another way is just to try to define its scope by explaining what it is that distinguishes it from other kinds of policy . |
| 7 | Here it distinguishes it from factual enquiry , at least as that is conceived by those with a robust sense that there is a way things really are in the world . |
| 8 | Styling outside and inside distinguishes it from big brothers |
| 9 | To do this , we used experimental criteria to characterise and distinguish it from arachidonic acid , prostaglandin , chollagen , thrombin , or adenosine diphosphate ( see Methods ) . |
| 10 | When you name a document of your own , you can add your own filename extension to help you distinguish it from other types of files . |
| 11 | Most sociologists would wish to maintain that , while their social science does not meet the rigorous criteria of a natural science , in terms of the procedures used for verification of theoretical hypotheses there is some disciplined thinking and testing of ideas going on in sociology which does distinguish it from religious or mystical thinking . |
| 12 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 13 | Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies . |
| 14 | Reproductive structures should really be found to distinguish it from other , superficially fern-like plants . |
| 15 | Just to make sure no-one gets the wrong idea , the loco carries an ‘ L ’ plate headboard to distinguish it from other trains ! |
| 16 | We confine the term ‘ ageing ’ or ‘ senescence ’ solely to the drop in survival probability and/or fertility later in the life of individuals , to distinguish it from other changes during the life history , such as early development or the onset of reproduction . |
| 17 | In fact , the term ‘ interest ’ is applied to a claim in order to distinguish it from other claims , usually with the implication that the claim labelled an interest deserves a remedy . |
| 18 | At the time , I was particularly enthusiastic about the possibility of the involvement of one of the major neurotransmitters , acetylcholine , in memory formation , and had set up a simple , fast assay for the brain 's acetylcholine receptor ( called the muscarinic receptor , to distinguish it from other types of acetylcholine receptor ) . |
| 19 | This is called the Richardson number ( sometimes the gradient form of the Richardson number to distinguish it from other forms defined somewhat differently ) . |
| 20 | This is sometimes called the ‘ absolute income ’ hypothesis to distinguish it from other hypotheses of consumption : in particular , the ‘ relative ’ and ‘ permanent ’ income hypotheses . |
| 21 | It is not usually considered to be an important tone for foreign learners to acquire , though it is still useful practice to learn to distinguish it from other tones . |
| 22 | The first car , initially 616 , was renumbered 1 and painted in a striking livery of crimson and sunshine-yellow , to distinguish it from crewed cars . |
| 23 | Some researchers , such as Ernest Hartmann , even called it D sleep ( for dreaming ) to distinguish it from non-dreaming slow wave sleep . |
| 24 | On Nov. 11 Hezbollah radio , the Voice of the Oppressed , had broadcast an attack on the government policy statement , which , it claimed , contained nothing to distinguish it from previous policy statements . |
| 25 | These three features also appear to distinguish it from classical criminology ( although I will reconsider the distinction later ) . |
| 26 | At the beginning of this chapter it was suggested that the main features by which we can characterise the wider category of positivist criminology ( and which also serve to distinguish it from classical criminology ) are determinism , differentiation , pathology and the diversion of attention away from crime ( and the criminal law ) to the criminal . |
| 27 | Land that is cultivated or grazed intensively near the croft is often referred to as inbye to distinguish it from common grazings and more distant fields . |
| 28 | Paphos — the Roman capital of Cyprus — has a harbour , basilica , castle and the Tombs of the Kings ( left ) to distinguish it from purpose-built resorts . |