The phrase "are generally distinguished" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how different items, concepts, or categories are recognized or identified based on certain characteristics or criteria.
Example: "In the study of literature, genres are generally distinguished by their themes, styles, and narrative techniques."
Alternatives: "are typically identified" or "are usually categorized".
Quality-of-life measures are generally distinguished as being either broad and generic or disease-specific with researchers favoring the inherent sharper focus of disease-specific tools.
Jungles apart, it is a fabulous place and the people are generally distinguished by their politeness and infectious good humour.
These are generally distinguished in molecular and semiconductor (non-molecular) systems, however, hybrid strategies, proposed recently, have also been included.
IIPs are generally distinguished from other diffuse parenchymal lung diseases on the basis of clinical properties, laboratory tests, physical examination, imaging and histopathological features [1, 2, 7, 8].
Four legal forms of governance are generally distinguished for PSFs: the public corporation, the privately held corporation, the LLP, and the general (i.e. unlimited liability) partnership (Empson and Chapman 2006; Greenwood and Empson 2003).
While early theorists such as Durkheim and Mauss were influential in cultural anthropology, sociologists of culture are generally distinguished by their concern for modern (rather than primitive or ancient) society.
Indoor location-based service (LBS) is generally distinguished from web services that have no physical location and user context.
Substantive theories take the thought of a further component seriously, and, though they do not seem to be generally distinguished, there are two main conceptions of this extra element, which I will call the 'thin particular' and the 'substratum' conceptions.
"Bioprocessing is generally distinguished from farming or agriculture in that it usually refers to methods that include the use of isolated cells or enzymes in an artificial environment," explains Wood.
The origin of salinization in ground water is generally distinguished by using δD δ18O relationship, because the stable isotope fractionation is mostly related to temperature (Kendall and McDonnel 1998; Huddart et al. 1999).
It is a deep-bodied fish, occasionally confused with other similar species that occur within its range, but is generally distinguished from these species by a lack of yellow ventral and anal fins.
