Example sentences of "[vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of those pubs which are listed — and there are still dismally few — such an attitude inevitably leads to a total disregard for those special qualities which distinguish the pub interior . |
| 2 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 3 | Distinctive guitar riffs and Ian Telfer 's racy fiddle runs distinguish the powerful , literate songs — all their own , save for a punk-folk thrashing of Pete Seeger 's politically correct tour of Welsh mining communities , pit closures giving a metaphorical edge to the accusing refrain ‘ who killed the miners ? ’ . |
| 4 | It is thus quite difficult to ; distinguish the various princes of the family of Augustus . |
| 5 | If uniforms distinguish the different grades of nursing and domestic staff , then this is useful information for the nurse to communicate to the patient . |
| 6 | However , it is these measurable indicators which distinguish the service from many other education business strategies . |
| 7 | He could hear John breathing , and in the distance , distinguish the dim shape of the sapper . |
| 8 | This analysis lifts us above such complications of hedonism as having to measure degrees of pleasure or distinguish the higher from the lower . |
| 9 | But how can the competing factors in the industry then distinguish the service they provide from that of their competitors ? |
| 10 | These then are the main characteristics which distinguish the early retired from other older workers who remained actually or potentially in the labour market : the former were more likely to have been close to pension age , to report ill health , to be better off financially and to have non-manual occupations . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
| 12 | Feminist methods frequently situate themselves socially and historically in ways which distinguish the concept of the subject they work with from the one which underpins qualitative psychological methods , and which give these methods a different significance . |
| 13 | Nucleotide positions of parthenogenesis and incompatibility bacteria are shown that distinguish the two sequence subgroups . |
| 14 | Both lack pongine characters , retaining the primitive condition for the characters that distinguish the pongine clade . |
| 15 | We consider these properties to be advantages of our vaccine rather than disadvantages , as it is just these properties that distinguish the MicroGeneSys vaccine from the other candidates . |
| 16 | Speech act theory , by attempting to single out the pieces of shared knowledge which enable us to interpret the function of what is said , also assumes that we can distinguish which factors in the situation are relevant , but again it does nothing to explain how we distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant . |
| 17 | These differences distinguish the mouse from the human TEF-1 sequence . |
| 18 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
| 19 | This distils the ratios to that sub-set which , when taken together and appropriately weighted , best distinguish the characteristics of the failed and silent sets of firms . |
| 20 | The most import ; ant characters which distinguish the Ophiacanthinae are the often long and narrow mainly internal radial shields ; the small scale-like plates of the disk and the relative broad jaw coupled with a relatively simple arrangement of apical and oral papillae . |
| 21 | ‘ Stylistics ’ thus becomes an essentially comparative study of the patterns of preference shown by the writer in his selection from the linguistic resources available to him , a question of the relative frequencies of choice which distinguish the language of his text from that of others ; it is an ‘ application rather than an extension of linguistics ’ ( p.217 ) . |
| 22 | The same two terms , ‘ bibliography ’ and ‘ history ’ serve to describe both subjects , and it is only the order in which they are cited and , in natural language , the connecting words that distinguish the statements of the two subjects . |
| 23 | There are two aspects that distinguish the fully optimal dynamic strategy from this inferior myopic strategy : ( i ) the use of a reservation sales strategy ; and ( ii ) the use of a declining output strategy and ( associatedly ) the use of a declining reservation price on the reservation sales strategy . |
| 24 | We can therefore , at least in principle , distinguish the D 3h and C 4 nu ; structures by the numbers of bands in the spectra . |
| 25 | Aborigines always distinguish the two . |
| 26 | For instance , man — or perhaps here I should say men — lack the huge canine teeth which distinguish the male great apes . |
| 27 | Know and understand some practices and customs that distinguish the lifestyle of two religious/cultural groups and evaluate one of them |
| 28 | ( 59 ) Two and two is four ( 60 ) Iguanas eat ants Let us , following Lyons ( 1977a : 682 ) , distinguish the semantic or theoretical category of tense , which we may call metalinguistic tense or M-tense for short , from the verbal inflections that a traditional grammar of a particular language may call that language 's tenses , which we may call L-tenses . |
| 29 | There are also systems ( e.g. in Australian and New Guinea languages ) that distinguish the three dimensions of space , having demonstratives that gloss as " the one above the speaker " , " the one below the speaker " , " the one level with the speaker " as well as distinguishing relative distance from participants ( see e.g. Dixon , 1972 : 262ff re Dyirbal ) . |
| 30 | Identify and discuss language features that are distinctive of the register of the newspapers , I E features common in all three newspaper articles but infrequent or non-existent in the non-use paper shapes the language features if any that distinguish the three newspaper articles from each other with emphasis on vocabulary , adjectives erm and bias and the essay title the essay length between three thousand five hundred words and our purpose in discussing this tonight as professional communicators is to help a mature overseas student of English . |