Example sentences of "to distinguish [pron] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The reason is that these colleges agreed to be pilots for a new form of subject assessment described as ‘ intensive ’ to distinguish it from the usual sampling method by which visits take place .
3 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 .
4 This call the lesser chamber because to distinguish it from the greater chamber .
5 The ratio is said to be a matter of ‘ commercial prudence ’ and is said to be ‘ non-mandatory ’ to distinguish it from the possible alternative , namely , that the ratio be written into banking law .
6 In WORDWISE + , if the user presses the f1 key and types in , at the beginning of the document LM10 ( this appears in green letters to distinguish it from the actual text )
7 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 .
8 To distinguish it from the medieval part of the college which hugs the splendid fifteenth-century cloisters , they called it New Buildings .
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