Example sentences of "distinguished from [adj] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advanced societies are distinguished from backward ones by , among many other features , the reliability of the information which can be obtained about them . |
| 2 | In summer readily distinguished from Black Tern by conspicuous white forewing , rump and tail , shorter stouter reddish-brown bill , but in winter hard to separate except by lack of dark spot on side of breast , paler rump or brighter red legs . |
| 3 | Cholera-causing strains can be distinguished from non-cholera vibrios by the presence of the virulence genes ctxA and tcpA , encoding , respectively , the cholera toxin ( CT ) enzymatic subunit and the major subunit of the colonisation factor ( TCP ) . |
| 4 | In Persian uses of Arabic script , for instance , words are distinguished from each other by the forms the letter takes at the beginning , middle or end of a word but there are no particular conventions for indicating where a sentence begins and ends . |
| 5 | In this painting the various forms of the body are distinguished from each other by heavy black outlines and , as in African bronzes , by the direction of the striations with which they are covered . |
| 6 | Cash accounting , accruals accounting and commitment accounting are distinguished from each other by the point in time when expenses and revenues are recognized in the accounts , i.e. the point at which a given transaction generates a bookkeeping entry . |
| 7 | Words are used to inflect if they can be assigned to a number of grammatical classes , and the members of all these classes are distinguished from each other by their morphology ( internal shape ) and by their syntax ( the rules of their use ) . |
| 8 | All vowels and diphthongs that are neither close nor open , i.e. , , , , , , , , must be distinguished from each other by other features . |
| 9 | The selected function-word-dependent phone models in SPHINX are perhaps distinguished from content words by similar stress and co-articulatory information , which we have represented explicitly in the lexicon . |
| 10 | O. cordifera can be distinguished from other species by the contiguous radial shields , the pentagonal shape of the oral shield often with an acute proximal edge and the small pointed tentacle scale . |
| 11 | In his book , The Pilgrim 's Regress , he says that the experience of intense longing is distinguished from other longings by two things : |
| 12 | Since the human species is distinguished from other animals by — amongst other things — the capacity to plan and execute the use of tools and produce its own means of life , it follows that such activity involves labour . |
| 13 | Easily distinguished from other hybrids by its natural clarity , refreshing purity and the fact that it 's got the word MALVERN written on it in big letters . |
| 14 | It is often claimed that the government of many European States in the generation or more before the French Revolution is distinguished from earlier practice by the existence of something called ‘ Enlightened Despotism ’ . |
| 15 | A rare vagrant from N America , distinguished from Tufted Duck by more peaked head , due to short crest , and two white rings on bill . |
| 16 | They are distinguished from medallion-and-corner schemes by the totemistic quality of the forms and frequent repetition of the dominant motif ( pls. 3 , 14 , 16 , 19 , 28 ) . |
| 17 | In Leicestershire their probate inventories show them to have been essentially large-scale farmers , generally working 100 acres or more , sometimes occupying two or more farms extending into more than one parish , renting additional pastures , and with few exceptions distinguished from plain husbandmen by superior wealth . |
| 18 | Smooth plains are distinguished from intercrater plains by a far lower number density of small craters and by clear evidence that on the smooth plains there has occurred the obliteration or partial obliteration of craters . |
| 19 | By a meristem is meant the formative tissue of plants , distinguished from permanent tissue by the power of its cells to divide and form new cells . |
| 20 | Further distinguished from immature gulls by white wing patch ( but beware occasional immature gull with pale wing patch ) , and by holding their wings more angled at the carpal joint . |