Example sentences of "[modal v] [noun] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you have done enough and must distance yourself from her possessive embrace . |
| 2 | Well first of all I must distance myself from the image that is presented by nearly all introductory textbooks of cultural anthropology . |
| 3 | ‘ The IAC consider it damaging for the Labour Party to regard the SDLP as their equivalent in Northern Ireland and the IAC believe the Party should distance itself from the SDLP . ’ |
| 4 | The result , the result of such claims will be a rush to restore differentials and a general inflation in Local Authorities , with no increase in value of services for the community and I ask that the Labour Party should distance itself from this very mis-guided proposal for national wage proposals , minimum national wage proposals . |
| 5 | Elliott agreed to mount the operation and , as is often the custom with intelligence agencies when engaged in hazardous operations , decided to use a freelance agent so that , if anything went wrong , MI6 could distance itself from the affair and deny any knowledge of it . |
| 6 | By returning to Ockham House , she could distance herself from events and reclaim a reassuring degree of privacy . |
| 7 | Much as CND may distance itself from these groups , its rhetoric and practice of opposition is an open invitation for their malign political presence . |
| 8 | Outraged by the bloody repression , Dai Qing publicly resigned from the Communist Party and said that she would distance herself from politics to concentrate on her writings . |