Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] itself from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 2 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 3 | By Christmas 1985 the DoE publicly sought to distance itself from the CEGB video , acknowledging that ‘ the film attempts to minimise the British contribution to acid deposition in Norway when it is much the largest . ’ |
| 4 | The hyperpluralist perspective may have sought to distance itself from the pluralist perspective on British politics , but there is much in common between the two orientations . |
| 5 | The party had also recently sought to distance itself from its Vietnamese patrons and had reportedly refused to provide Do Muoi , general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) , with a full , pre-congress briefing . |
| 6 | The National Party government sought to distance itself from the day 's events . |
| 7 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 8 | On Bosnia , while Britain has welcomed US involvement , it has had to keep itself from dismissing as laughable the feasibility of proposed US airdrops . |
| 9 | Of course it would have been difficult for intellectuals to admit that it was precisely their own condemnation and neglect of films which had removed the one buffer that the film industry could have used to protect itself from the onslaught of ‘ the Meddlers and Busybodies ’ . |
| 10 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 11 | The form also tends to distance itself from passion , although there is passion aplenty in the events described . |
| 12 | She was identified with orthodox communism , but her concern was with party unity and she was aware that the PCE needed to distance itself from Moscow to survive . |
| 13 | During September there were signs that Jordan was attempting to distance itself from Iraq in order to restore relations with its former allies in the Gulf . |
| 14 | It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to await the day when it will begin to abolish itself from below . |
| 15 | In a speech to representatives of the Moscow gentry in March 1856 he announced that it was better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait until it began to abolish itself from below . |
| 16 | After being among the first of the former Soviet republics to fight to free itself from the embrace of Moscow , it has now come full circle with the recognition that it must look East as well as West for its own benefit . |
| 17 | It was expected that from now on the government would attempt to distance itself from any further scandals in the run-up to the autumn 's critical gubernatorial and congressional elections . |
| 18 | And from the moment of birth the child is learning -learning to know its own body and bodily needs , learning to distinguish itself from the world around it , learning something about its relationships to things and people in that world . |
| 19 | The Tories would not be allowed to keep Jeffrey Archer and Labour could be forced to distance itself from Ben Elton , who is known to frighten off some middle-of-the-road autograph hunters . |
| 20 | One IWC official has pointed out that , since Norway formally objected to the moratorium when originally passed in 1982 , it is allowed to exempt itself from the terms . |
| 21 | Now , under the impact of guilt and remorse motivated by the positive side of the original ambivalent feelings for the father , the ego sought to defend itself from further conflict with its id by erecting safety measures which would protect it from such distorting and stressful impulses . |
| 22 | The Victoria and Albert Museum is still trying to disassociate itself from the ignominious failure of the exhibition of sporting trophies through the ages . |
| 23 | I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings . |
| 24 | Climbing up a steep bank or trying to extricate itself from a mud hole is likely to produce squeals of distress from the infant and the adults nearby will rush over to see what is wrong . |
| 25 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |
| 26 | As you know , Mr. Speaker , the new model Labour party has been assiduously trying to distance itself from its Bolshevik friends . |
| 27 | The UK , however , continued to distance itself from its Commonwealth partners on financial and trading and investment sanctions , stressing that it was dissatisfied with the pace at which its partners intended to lift them . |
| 28 | The point to remember , however , is that these mechanisms occur unconsciously , they 're things the ego does to defend itself from anxiety and from and the result of which is to force things into the unconscious . |
| 29 | seeks to liberate itself from the Greek domination of the Same and the One … as if from oppression itself — an oppression certainly comparable to none other in the world , an ontological or transcendental oppression , but also the origin or alibi of all oppression in the world . |
| 30 | In the history of the sciences in France , as in German critical theory , it is a matter at bottom of examining a reason , the autonomy of whose structures carries with it a history of dogmatism and despotism — a reason , consequently , which can only have an effect of emancipation on condition that it manages to liberate itself from itself . |