Example sentences of "to distinguish [pron] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such bodies are known as corporations , or ( to distinguish them from the corporations sole , to be mentioned later ) corporations aggregate . |
| 2 | Apart from the fact that they have an arrest rate lower than that of some of the older generation , there seems nothing of substance to distinguish them from the founders of the DUP party . |
| 3 | — The scarlet coat started as a uniform for the hunt staff ( paid professionals ) in the eighteenth century to distinguish them from the gentlemen riders who wore coats of all colours then . |
| 4 | Designs based on these principles are known as linear voltage regulators to distinguish them from the kind of regulator we are going to investigate in this article . |
| 5 | Led by , but not restricted to , the Japanese , these were what Michalet ( 1976 ) labelled ‘ workshop ’ affiliates , to distinguish them from the earlier ‘ relay ’ affiliates that ‘ cloned ’ the business in the foreign country . |
| 6 | Nothing , other than ownership and the secret garden , appears to distinguish them from the other tenants around them . |
| 7 | to distinguish them from the signs by which we are already combining elements of Q. The new symbols are sufficiently unfamiliar to remind us of their defining role but sufficiently similar to + and . |
| 8 | The kind of norms we are concerned with here are sometimes called community norms in order to distinguish them from the superordinate norms that I have mentioned , and I shall suggest below that a major difference between superordinate and community norms is that , whereas ‘ standard ’ norms are uniform , community norms are sometimes more aptly described as variable norms . |
| 9 | The colours are bright and are called fluorescent to distinguish them from the normal opaque colours in the usual felt-tip pens . |
| 10 | All such pensions came to be known , in common parlance , as ‘ private pensions ’ , to distinguish them from the state pensions first introduced in 1908 for indigent elderly people over 70 , followed later ( 1925 ) by contributory state retirement and widows ' pension schemes . |
| 11 | They wore white uniforms in summer to distinguish them from the crowds that might throng their stations . |
| 12 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 14 | And from the moment of birth the child is learning -learning to know its own body and bodily needs , learning to distinguish itself from the world around it , learning something about its relationships to things and people in that world . |
| 15 | She is in fact perfectly ordinary , with nothing to distinguish her from a thousand others . |
| 16 | The occasional person is classed as a gentleman , and very infrequently mention is made of the occupation of some humbler mortal , usually ( one suspects ) to distinguish him from a neighbour of the same name . |
| 17 | While we have examined Oakeshott as a conservative thinker therefore we must be careful to distinguish him from the religious conservatism of Burke and from the mainstream forms of conservatism which Huntington identified in the aristocratic and situational theories as ideological defences of the ancien régime or of established institutions . |
| 18 | We call him ‘ gangling Chang ’ to distinguish him from the other Changs , because he is tall , thin , loose-limbed , and is ready to laugh about anything , although it appears he has some family problems in that his wife is away and his baby son is ill . |
| 19 | We 'll refer to these as hostiles , to distinguish 'em from the ordinary members , who all wear them fancy coloured robes an' do n't present any threat at all . |
| 20 | Some published material is hand written and of such high quality that it is difficult to distinguish it from a typeset score . |
| 21 | An order for contact with a child in care is usually referred to as a s34 contact order to distinguish it from a contact order under s8 of the Act . |
| 22 | To distinguish it from the medieval part of the college which hugs the splendid fifteenth-century cloisters , they called it New Buildings . |
| 23 | XRD is able to identify the metal sulphide used to make the niello and to distinguish it from the metal and from the oxide , chloride and carbonate corrosion products which contaminate the sample . |
| 24 | I will call it the principle of comprehensive ( political ) neutrality to distinguish it from the second principle which will be called the principle of narrow ( political ) neutrality . |
| 25 | The calendar in use today is known as the Gregorian or New Style , to distinguish it from the Julian or Old Style , and was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 . |
| 26 | The use of the New Style calendar ( to distinguish it from the Old Style , or Julian , calendar ) was ordered by Pope Gregory XIII on 24 February 1582 . |
| 27 | This evolutionary driving force was dubbed ‘ kin selection ’ , to distinguish it from the additional ( and inevitable ) shaping of an individual 's own reproductive efforts by natural selection . |
| 28 | Doctors call this reaction chronic inflammation to distinguish it from the immediate , acute reaction or injury or allergy . |
| 29 | This is not to deny that it is an intelligent reaction , and that the sense of when to trust the analogy between present and former situations is in some individuals very intelligent indeed , but there is nothing in that to distinguish it from the other insights and hunches by which we instantaneously synthesize similarities and differences too fine and complex to be analysed before a change in the situation obliterates them . |
| 30 | A sensible place to begin this endeavour is with the mainspring of the story 's action , the Ring ( here capitalised to distinguish it from the relatively insignificant stage-prop or ‘ Equalizer ’ of The Hobbit ) . |