Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | America had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last . |
| 2 | This seems to be true in spite of the fact that Spinoza was very much of a generation which was concerned to dissociate itself from the Greek inheritance , and indeed he represents something of a fresh injection of Jewish moral feeling into the main Christian current of Western thought . |
| 3 | The three ministers belonging to the CDU ( which had been under pressure from its West German counterpart to dissociate itself from the regime ) also withdrew from the coalition on Jan. 25 " to make way for negotiations " but would continue in a caretaker capacity . |
| 4 | Among the smaller opposition parties the JCP fought a largely defensive campaign in which it attempted to dissociate itself from the discredited communist regimes of Eastern Europe . |
| 5 | The rumour generated a wave of protest , which caused the HDUR to dissociate itself from the initiative . |
| 6 | In the first year it had been careful to disassociate itself from the truck-driver 's pin-up image by boasting of the high social and business standing of its readers … ‘ seven corporation presidents , fourteen vice-presidents , psychiatrists , a mortician and three embalmers ’ were listed among the first subscribers . |
| 7 | The Victoria and Albert Museum is still trying to disassociate itself from the ignominious failure of the exhibition of sporting trophies through the ages . |
| 8 | I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings . |
| 9 | The unfair element is that the AFBD has been obliged to extricate itself from a CFTC hole largely dug by the Securities and Investments Board and imperfectly filled in by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 12 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 13 | The animal , sensing a new danger , shook its horns furiously to free itself from the encumbrance , and the already unconscious senator was catapulted into the thorns , where he lay without moving . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | While thus engaged he met a group of Gold Coast traders to whom the British government , eager to disentangle itself from the political strife of the region , was in the process of handing over its installations . |
| 16 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 17 | The artefact 's capacity to separate itself from the immediacy of a relationship embodied in the concept of utility is most evident in the manner in which it is used for precisely the opposite function , that is , to separate the individual from productive activity . |
| 18 | For every unit of alcohol ( half a pint of beer ; one glass of wine ) , it takes one hour to clear itself from the body . |
| 19 | BAe was keen to diversify , in order to protect itself from the cyclical swings of both civil and military aerospace manufacturing . |
| 20 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Young skin is not only thinner but also has fewer pigment cells and is less able to protect itself from the sun . |
| 23 | Society may not through its laws be able to protect the sufferers from addictive disease from the consequences of their addiction nor he able to protect itself from the consequences of their actions even if the law is applied universally to all addictive drugs including alcohol . |
| 24 | In order to protect itself from the conflicting , volatile and diffuse demands of political groups , it retreated into greater bureaucratism . |
| 25 | We 're speaking for working people in this country and we are a reliable indicator of the feelings , the dreams , the hopes of working people right across the country and any party that attempts to divorce itself from an organization such as ours , that attempts to speak for working people will lose its way . |
| 26 | Yet many party supporters were outraged by this betrayal of the Whig tradition , and the very fact that the issue of liberty of conscience could now be given a low priority in the party agenda is perhaps indicative of the beginnings of the process whereby Whiggery was to divorce itself from the cause of Dissent . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | The station itself was built with massive stolidity as though to distance itself from the Georgian grace of the great imperial buildings near by . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |