Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] itself from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The National Party government sought to distance itself from the day 's events . |
| 5 | On Bosnia , while Britain has welcomed US involvement , it has had to keep itself from dismissing as laughable the feasibility of proposed US airdrops . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | America had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last . |