Example sentences of "tell [art] difference " in BNC.
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| 1 | She doubted whether she could have told the difference if she had n't known . |
| 2 | Decommissioning work on the reactors began four years ago , but only now can the outside world tell the difference , as giant cooling pipes are lifted out by crane |
| 3 | Decommissioning work began four years ago … but only now can the outside world tell the difference as giant pipes are lifted off by crane . |
| 4 | Could , could , could the ordinary people tell the difference between the Borough Police |
| 5 | ‘ Nobody can tell the difference : Awlad Amira are deceiving the government into giving arms to our enemies . ’ |
| 6 | Everyone coughed most of the time , they could n't tell the difference between coughing and breathing after a while , but his was a real lung curdler when it got going . |
| 7 | Who can tell the difference ? |
| 8 | ‘ That was patchouli oil , Mom , ca n't you tell the difference ? |
| 9 | ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question . |
| 10 | I ca n't tell the difference between being hungry and wanting food ; |
| 11 | The present writer has no experience in microbiology and could not tell the difference between bacilli and cocci if he saw them . |
| 12 | Can you tell the difference between a sparkling wine and Champagne ? |
| 13 | ‘ With modern verse , can one tell the difference ? ’ |
| 14 | Like Eric you 'll discover that you can tell the difference ! |
| 15 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 16 | He had never made anything and he could n't tell the difference between one flower and another . |
| 17 | You 're going to say , ‘ How can anyone tell the difference ? ’ or ‘ Well it makes a change from being on holiday , ’ or something nasty and bitter and hurtful like that . |
| 18 | Four new stations start tomorrow , but will anyone tell the difference ? |
| 19 | £1m classic or £15,000 copy — can you tell the difference ? |
| 20 | Much more alarming is the idea that you could not tell the difference between an expanding and a contracting Universe , and might indeed live in a Universe in which the arrow of time points in the opposite direction from the one you think it does ! |
| 21 | Research evidence shows that people who become go-betweens can not tell the difference between margarine and butter . |
| 22 | I can tell the difference between a sparrow and a swan and that 's about it . |
| 23 | You can be trained to give right answers , wrong answers or merely confusing ones and the scrutineer ca n't tell the difference . ’ |
| 24 | Between you and me and that barstool , I ca n't really tell the difference between their policies and ours . |
| 25 | He left behind him a police force outraged by his treachery and a judicial establishment unable to believe that , for the first time , a South African policeman was prepared to tell all about the dirty tricks departments , the hit squads , the assassination detachments and the enormous , shabby , meritorious , violent conspiracy so interwoven into the blood and guts of the South African security services that its agents can no longer tell the difference between criminal pursuits and active police work . |
| 26 | Dirk Coetzee ca n't tell the difference either . |
| 27 | If you look carefully , you can tell the difference between a male pupa and a female pupa ( see drawings ) . |
| 28 | Would you know if you came across somebody and erm could you tell the difference between a diabetic person and the , a per drug addict if they were unconscious ? |
| 29 | Although I could n't tell the difference at the time , I was in fact wrong yesterday and right today , and this is sufficient to ground a difference in the outside observer 's description of me as knowing today but not knowing yesterday . |
| 30 | So unless we can say , as we said above for knowledge , that you can not claim your belief is justified unless you can tell the difference between cases where such beliefs are true and cases where they are false , it will be impossible to conclude that your true belief here is unjustified . |