Example sentences of "[v-ing] itself from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team was able to win some very prestigious senior assignments during this time , deliberately dissociating itself from the wholesale movement of dealing and broking teams , an aspect of search of which GKR strongly disapprove . |
| 2 | An announcement by the council , dissociating itself from the comments and stressing its anti-racist policy , failed to quell a storm of protest over Mr McNeill 's remarks . |
| 3 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 4 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 5 | The line went dead and , unfolding itself from the mat , the dog gave a single , peremptory bark that might have been the result of an interrupted dream . |
| 6 | Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe . |
| 7 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 8 | Stylistically , Samson is distancing itself from the very audience it should inspire , but by doing so Milton is helping to avoid potential censorship and a silencing altogether . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It might even drift towards a Scandinavian-style peripheral role in Nato as well as distancing itself from the EEC . |
| 11 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 12 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |
| 13 | He had given her that household , a little society , warming itself in its own glow of virtue , insulating itself from the big bad world ; but within its own limits it had been open and supportive . |
| 14 | In relation to our " design-and-society " problem , design , in rending itself from the social fabric and attempting to construct itself as an independent discipline — and having constructed its own pantheon of values and principles with only tangential relation to the social — becomes , quite literally , socially unintelligible . |