Example sentences of "distance [pn reflx] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 2 | ( By stepping back as he blocks , he doubly protects himself : even if the block fails , he has distanced himself from the oncoming punch . ) |
| 3 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 4 | A close associate of the President , he had nevertheless distanced himself from the ruling party , the Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution ( AREMA ) . |
| 5 | One problem with that is that the feminist movement in Europe distances itself from the mass movement . |
| 6 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 7 | They carefully distanced themselves from the dirty work , but did n't hesitate to employ his services . |
| 8 | Regional roots aside , the band always wisely distanced themselves from the now-dead scene — but , as Andy candidly remarks , ‘ everybody said that , did n't they ? |
| 9 | I do not know whether that means that he has changed his policy or is distancing himself from the official line of the Labour party on unemployment issues . |
| 10 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 11 | In these past two years and more , since Matthew had been employed with David , distancing himself from the old man and returning to the family fold , Beth had never stopped hoping that one day he might turn to her with affection . |
| 12 | Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . |
| 13 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 14 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 15 | It seemed that Jason was keen to distance himself from the increasing danger of being known as the future Mr Minogue . |
| 16 | In spite of his ritual attempt to distance himself from the young man who had written that poem , he knew very well that even his contemporary reputation in large part rested on it : that , and the last three of the Four Quartets , he told Ezra Pound , had been worth writing . |
| 17 | Mr Walesa has now apparently decided to stress the more open-minded traditions of Polish patriotism — Poland was once a central European melting pot — and to distance himself from the foreigner-hating sort of nationalism to be found among some Polish politicians and churchmen . |
| 18 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 19 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 20 | At all costs Hauser wished to distance himself from the coming Manescu operation in various ex-Communist European states . |
| 21 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 22 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 23 | The station itself was built with massive stolidity as though to distance itself from the Georgian grace of the great imperial buildings near by . |
| 24 | It is clear that , on the most fundamental level , the ability to substitute a thought conveyed in linguistic terms for an action or a thing is an absolutely basic ingredient of the ego 's functioning : it is the key to the ego 's ability to distance itself from the immediate demands of the id and its drives and to evolve higher , more abstract thought-processes than those available to an animal , no matter how intelligent , which lacks the power of speech . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In a continuing battle to distance itself from the latest investigations , the Richmond Fellowship UK is trying to oust Jansen from an office she and staff from the charitable foundation occupy rent free behind its Kensington headquarters . |
| 27 | In response the government , eager to distance itself from the ruling FLN , which was itself in disarray [ see pp. 37628 ; 37795-96 ] , and secure its own survival , promised that free and open parliamentary elections would be held in the first half of 1991 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She was definitely distancing herself from the older woman . |