Example sentences of "[noun] distance [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of his ritual attempt to distance himself from the young man who had written that poem , he knew very well that even his contemporary reputation in large part rested on it : that , and the last three of the Four Quartets , he told Ezra Pound , had been worth writing . |
| 2 | Their statement was interpreted as an attempt to distance themselves from the so-called ‘ Central Belt activists ’ who withdrew their strongly worded motion at the executive and voted with the six on the statement drawn up by Councillor Rob Gibson which regretted the MPs ' actions . |
| 3 | In a continuing battle to distance itself from the latest investigations , the Richmond Fellowship UK is trying to oust Jansen from an office she and staff from the charitable foundation occupy rent free behind its Kensington headquarters . |
| 4 | One group distanced themselves from the class and adopted a communist ideology advocating the overthrow of capitalism by the working class . |
| 5 | It is impossible for the participants to distance themselves from the situation sufficiently to analyse their own behaviour in all its complex detail . |
| 6 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 7 | Latterly there was an attempt by the South African authorities to distance themselves from the activities of the money men . |
| 8 | One problem with that is that the feminist movement in Europe distances itself from the mass movement . |
| 9 | In the succeeding weeks , while maintaining a position strongly opposed to Iraq 's aggression , the Soviet Union distanced itself from the US position , seeking to ensure that the enforcement of UN sanctions remained in the forefront as the means to secure an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait , and advocating a UN framework for any enforcement action . |
| 10 | When he realized that he was unlikely to receive satisfaction on either score , de Gaulle distanced himself from the negotiations by flying to Brazzaville in Central Africa . |
| 11 | During the election , for the first time , he enunciated this as a national vision : in memorable , simple , evocative terms ; as graspable in its clarity as Mrs Thatcher 's , but sufficiently orientated towards ‘ safety nets ’ , ‘ decency ’ , the ‘ citizen 's charter ’ and ‘ effective delivery ’ themes to distance itself from the harsher extremes of Thatcherite social gospel . |
| 12 | Was Morrissey distancing himself from the proceedings ? |
| 13 | All its problems arise directly from the political situation from which it springs , from the urgent need felt by the Government to distance themselves from the poll tax and the equal need to placate those internal supporters of the poll tax who will choke over any support for a property tax . |
| 14 | It was the belief that France and Germany would not prove ready to join a common market , and that the scheme would collapse , that led Britain to distance itself from the Spaak committee late in the year . |
| 15 | He seemed in a hurry to distance himself from the work he had been doing . |
| 16 | An Early Day Motion has now been tabled in the House of Commons attacking the report and calling the Department of Health to distance itself from the recommendations . |
| 17 | Commentators noted that , throughout the negotiations , the USA made a conscious effort to distance itself from the proceedings . |
| 18 | Generally Lori distanced herself from the relationship . |
| 19 | It is another for the Prime Minister to distance herself from the policies of the government of which she is head . |
| 20 | He had reportedly been pressing for the USA to distance itself from the peace negotiations and he was therefore opposed to a Washington venue ; he was also known to support a Middle Eastern venue to emphasize the regional , as opposed to the international , nature of the conflict . |
| 21 | It is clear that , on the most fundamental level , the ability to substitute a thought conveyed in linguistic terms for an action or a thing is an absolutely basic ingredient of the ego 's functioning : it is the key to the ego 's ability to distance itself from the immediate demands of the id and its drives and to evolve higher , more abstract thought-processes than those available to an animal , no matter how intelligent , which lacks the power of speech . |
| 22 | Almost all the advocates of the confessional approach today would in fact distance themselves from the kind of RE that this has often produced in the past . |
| 23 | Management as local activity has taken time to distance itself from the field of administration which belonged , as recently as the 1980s , to varying tiers of government rather than to institutions . |