Example sentences of "distinct from [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 One way of defining the middle classes is to try to understand how they kept themselves morally distinct from the lower orders .
2 The bourgeois was , if not a different species , then at least the member of a superior race , a higher stage in human evolution , distinct from the lower orders who remained in the historical or cultural equivalent of childhood or at most adolescence .
3 There were twenty-four houses at Eton , each with about forty-five boys who were known as Oppidans and were distinct from the seventy Scholars who lived apart in College .
4 Elwert even notes that there are Transylvanian villages where high German ( as distinct from the Teutonic dialects actually spoken ) was known before the Hitler period as Judendaitsch .
5 The final phase of academic school examinations , as distinct from the vocational examinations already mentioned , is , and seems likely to remain for the foreseeable future , the GCE A level .
6 The mammoth was related to but distinct from the modern elephants , and therefore it must be an extinct species of the same genus .
7 Another phenomenon which took many of the gentry by surprise and swept some of them along with it , albeit protesting , was an outbreak of Puritan fanaticism in eastern Sussex in 1642 ; it encouraged paradoxically a tendency to religious broadness of mind seen as quite distinct from the narrow views of Archbishop Laud .
8 For television , this sense of parody , in its generic playfulness , is distinct from the satirical forms characteristic of British television for which , despite their ‘ scandalousness ’ , the truth is a fixed position from which public behaviour may be castigated and public morals improved .
9 These proposed innovatory Keynesian policies were distinct from the economic policies of the Labour and Conservative parties , for they demanded the use of bank credit , the ending of private land ownership , and the use of public works programmes to swallow up over half a million unemployed over a short period of time .
10 Rugby in South Wales and football in central Scotland reflected a new sense of working-class cultural nationalism which was distinct from the bardic celebrations in Wales and the romanticism of readers of Sir Walter Scott and nostalgic expatriates .
11 The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn .
12 Ophioprium is now defined as follows : the jaws longer than wide with one or two large apical papillae flanked on each side by 4–6 pointed oral papillae distal to which up to 4 elongated spine-like tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore , the distal scales markedly distinct from the oral papillae ; the adoral shields long narrow often partially overlain by the large oral shield ; disk covered by scales obscured by dense covering of spinelets and or granules ; radial shields covered and inconspicuous ; tentacle pores of the arm open armed with 1–2 large tentacle scales .
13 A recent specialist Soviet study on Southeast Asia argued that the term ‘ neutralisation ’ as distinct from the related terms ‘ neutrality ’ and ‘ neutralism ’ contained the idea of activity over a more or less defined period of time ; it implied a process of gradual and progressive development .
14 They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material .
15 On the main manor twenty-eight of the forty copyholders were half-yardlanders ; as a group the copyholders were distinct from the thirty-one freeholders , for only three men held land by both methods of tenure in any significant quantity .
16 It would exclude , on the other hand , those crucial processes of working and reworking which are the specifics , as distinct from the abstractable elements , of important art .
17 This suggests that this test has identified a linguistic skill which is distinct from the linguistic abilities required for success on these other tests .
18 Since the order was primarily religious it has to be distinguished from specific cultural orders , but it is even more distinct from the social relations of patronage .
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