Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Fee: £ 475 plus VAT What makes this course distinctive?

Modifies a noun

• flavor: The smoking process may be carried out using various hardwoods which each produce a distinctive flavor.

• feature: A distinctive feature of the lime are the ' suckers produced at the base of the trunk.

• characteristic: One of the most distinctive characteristics of Ray's books, is the attention to detail.

• character: How can one begin to think about the distinctive character, or being, of an organism?

• voice: Of course, Jon Anderson has a very distinctive voice.

• toy: Manhattan Toy introduced Groovy Girls as part of its overall collection of distinctive soft toys that inspire creative play.

Modifying Another Word

• locally: Locally distinctive patterns and the best examples of past styles will have been safeguarded and enhanced.

• highly: About Us Monsoon has developed a strong brand with a highly distinctive identity.

• sufficiently: The views were actually very distant at about 500 meters, although its plumage and song were sufficiently distinctive to allow a positive identification.

• utterly: Maurice opens the tune with an utterly distinctive and special guitar pattern.

• quite: In much of Europe there has been a real center politics which was quite distinctive from free market capitalism.

• uniquely: The mess building, designed in 1924-5, is an impressive and uniquely distinctive example of its type.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: They were, from the first, distinctive and remained distinctive.

• become: It is therefore likely that our three educational contexts will become increasingly distinctive.

• look: It must have looked distinctive with the bodywork and wheels painted blue and the interior trimmed with matching leather.

• have: Common minerals from different occurrences have been shown to have distinctive PCL spectra.

• consider: The slightly higher numbers of Branta geese from Blue Bridge Lane might be considered distinctive, as might the woodcock bones.

Preposition: in

• way: James's approach to politics was distinctive in two ways.

Preposition: for

• dessert: Others like cake just fine, but prefer to serve something a little more distinctive for dessert.