Example sentences of "try to distance [pron] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 2 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 3 | The new committee , reportedly dominated by political figures close to the military establishment , was believed to reflect the army 's growing alienation from the policies of the Ghozali government ; although Ghozali remained a member of the FLN central committee he was considered as having tried to distance himself from the FLN as much as possible . |
| 4 | In an exchange of letters with lay critics of the Royal Society of Chemistry-s award of a fellowship to the ‘ world-ranking scientist and academician ’ , J. S. Gow , the Society 's Secretary-General , had tried to distance it from the Romanian laureate . |
| 5 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |