Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These three features also appear to distinguish it from classical criminology ( although I will reconsider the distinction later ) . |
| 3 | Reproductive structures should really be found to distinguish it from other , superficially fern-like plants . |
| 4 | Older children understand that a particular situation does not inevitably provoke a particular emotion : the emotion you display depends on how you view the situation , whether you try to change your emotional reaction to it , and whether you try to conceal it from other people . |
| 5 | The war in the Gulf was not fought to liberate Kuwait from a medieval fiefdom , it was fought to liberate it from Iraqi occupation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We stayed for one night , there , in quite a luxurious hotel , so there was n't anything extraordinary to grumble about : the worst bit was trying to deal with our luggage — trying to retrieve it from piled-up trollies on the airfield in the heat of the day , etc . |
| 8 | The glycosides are even retained as the caterpillar changes into a butterfly and help to protect it from predatory birds . |
| 9 | It is time for the government to act to protect it from future ecstasy |
| 10 | 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 . |