Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] from [art] other " in BNC.

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1 I do n't know one from the other by name .
2 The fields were divided into strips of round-backed ridges , separated one from the other by ploughed furrows which acted as land drains .
3 How will the Scottish Office separate one from the other ?
4 There 's one thing we can do is take one from t' other .
5 The idea has effectively been ruled out by the Commission 's clear reference to the need for a ‘ common economic policy ’ , but the myth that it is possible to separate one from the other persists in Britain .
6 Because I can not distinguish one from the other it must be a physically identical statement to say that I have a particle " there " and an identical particle " here " .
7 She walked alone in the silence , hearing her own muted footfalls like echoes of past or future , she could not distinguish one from the other .
8 And you can do it by taking one from t' other but more useful er , I would suggest , is to work out a planned performance or what I 've called a planned performance , er , this 'll be in your , in your notes as well , er which equals planned expenditure over planned er , income or allowance .
9 How , a week after that crazy decision , are we to place confidence in Ministers who talk about policing and crime prevention in our urban and rural communities when they can not tell one from t' other ?
10 If you should stroll into a pub and meet an analyst and a user talking about work , and you can not tell one from the other , they have probably developed a successful system together .
11 One can not directly infer one from the other .
12 Add credit and debit sides of the trial balance , take one from the other , halve the difference and check if any item of this amount is on the wrong side .
13 In effect , they are making two claims , one of which I want to call the minor and the major claim , which are not logically necessarily following one from the other .
14 However , it seemed that each sex could have learnt something from the other on this occasion ; by the end of the day , the beautifully laid-out nursery , ready to provide the young arrivals with constructive play activities , was reduced to utter chaos from the tidal force of juvenile anarchy .
15 However each can learn something from the others , and it is thanks to International co-operation on this level that the RNLI began to operate the Waveney ( originally an American coastguard design ) , and that the Canadians now build and operate the Arun class .
16 They sometimes had secretaries who could imitate their master 's hand so perfectly that it is difficult to tell one from t' other .
17 Nevertheless , an ordinary person might be hard put to tell one from the other .
18 We do not distinguish experiences from non-experiences as we might distinguish oranges from apples , viz. by indicating certain characteristics that might enable anyone , including those who have never tasted either fruit , to tell one from the other .
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