Example sentences of "to distinguish them from the " 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 :
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