Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] distance [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour Party 's obsession with distancing itself from anything which the right-wing media could pick up and exploit as ‘ extremist ’ is well described by Wainwright in her account of a Labour Party election rally . |
| 2 | Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . |
| 3 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 4 | Most of the other appointees were not senior members of the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) , as the government continued its policy of distancing itself from the party . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , as well as searching for a director to replace its current chief , Bob Scheifler , the X Consortium is also examining ways of distancing itself from its home at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and developing some kind of marketing focus without falling foul of its not-for-profit status . |
| 6 | Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government . |
| 7 | The tradition of distancing oneself from knowledge or research begins in school , and the horror of emotional interference or personal feelings is , I submit , a very masculine approach to the study of our world — whether the physical or social world . |