Example sentences of "distinguish [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are eight behaviours that are typical of successful negotiators and distinguish them from the less successful . |
| 2 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 3 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 4 | This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action . |
| 5 | If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society . |
| 6 | There was nothing really special about that distinguishes us , distinguished us from the pack . |
| 7 | Elite collaboration is the rule in liberal corporatism , distinguishing it from the elite competition of democratic elitism or the single dominant elite of totalitarian regimes ( see Figure 4.1 ) . |
| 8 | Although Dicken 's Barnaby Rudge was a historical novel , set several decades before the period in which it was written , few modern readers are capable of distinguishing it from the author 's non-period writings . |
| 9 | The smallest of the three spotted woodpeckers that have a conspicuous white patch on each wing , a feature at once distinguishing it from the three on p. 197 , while its red crown separates it from adult Great Spotted and Syrian , as well as Three-toed and female Lesser Spotted . |
| 10 | It was the first of a series of compounds which are known as the ‘ tricyclic antidepressants ’ , because their chemical structure contains three rings and distinguishes them from the monoamine oxidase inhibitors . |
| 11 | The control exercised by Mosca 's ‘ ruling class ’ is held to be assured by the organisational capacity of the ruling minority : this is the basis of their power and the characteristic that best distinguishes them from the disorganised and powerless majority . |
| 12 | This distinguishes them from the state agencies that provide health , education or other services on the basis of bureaucratic criteria such as need and entitlement , rather than as commodities to be bought and sold in the market . |
| 13 | Feminist criticism , like Marxist , is avowedly evaluative , which sharply distinguishes it from the generality of current academic criticism , of whatever school . |
| 14 | For Locke , the regulation by reason of ‘ faith ’ , or ‘ belief ’ based on revelation , distinguishes it from the ‘ ungrounded fancies ’ , ‘ the conceits of a warmed and over-weening brain ’ , which are characteristic of ‘ enthusiasm ’ . |
| 15 | It is the ability of love to transform in this way that , in Tillich 's view , distinguishes it from the Buddhist concept of compassion . |
| 16 | The answer is that this third human state has a special feature that distinguishes it from the other two ( the inner and the outer states ) in that it is a zone for cultural experience or creative playing . |
| 17 | It is the overdetermined character of the materialist dialectic that distinguishes it from the Hegelian dialectic . |
| 18 | Johnny Rotten sings flat , the song is laughably naive , and the overall feeling is of a third-rate Who imitation , but even so there 's a certain neurotic aggression that distinguishes it from the rest of this week 's insipid bunch . ’ |
| 19 | The fact that it aims to provide a systematic account of time use is what distinguishes it from the literary diary . |
| 20 | For example , yellow-orange CL of calcite generally distinguishes it from the darker red-crimson of dolomite , and feldspars are very bright blues , reds or greens compared with subdued violets and browns for quartz grains . |
| 21 | ‘ What distinguishes us from the rest of the industry is that we do research to prove the claims we make , ’ he says . |
| 22 | Players were encouraged to exaggerate the portamento and vibrato features of their instruments to help distinguish them from the wind sections ( 11 ) . |
| 23 | He could n't distinguish her from the darkness , but any lingering doubt that she might belong to the dream from which he 'd risen was dispatched as her hand went from his mouth to his bare chest . |
| 24 | BY LEAVING FOR AUSTRALIA , Gould was not only side-stepping the wash he had helped to agitate with Darwin ; he was preserving for himself a niche which would forever distinguish him from the motley and profusive competition of all other ornithological illustrators . |
| 25 | To gain a richer understanding of the problem of holism we must therefore distinguish it from the problem of determinism . |
| 26 | The label draws attention to three important developments which distinguish it from the early Romanov State . |
| 27 | Such bodies are known as corporations , or ( to distinguish them from the corporations sole , to be mentioned later ) corporations aggregate . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | — 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |