Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 2 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 3 | Top performers jealously protected themselves from all types of misrepresentation , so it is hardly surprising that record companies did n't try it on . |
| 4 | That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath . |
| 5 | A close associate of the President , he had nevertheless distanced himself from the ruling party , the Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution ( AREMA ) . |
| 6 | He considered that English , seen as a form of study rather than the practice of cultivated reading , had still not freed itself from the criticism of lacking intellectual strenuousness . |
| 7 | The work begins in classic Hegelian style : ‘ Mental life begins with an undifferentiated state in which the Ego and its objects are not yet distinguished ; consciousness is filled with impressions and perceptions while the bearer of these contents has still not detached himself from them ’ ( 1978 : 63 ) . |
| 8 | Night brightened sharply , as if the moon had just disentangled itself from cloud . |
| 9 | Having just painfully disentangled herself from one relationship , she had no intention of getting involved in another for a very long time . |
| 10 | In any case , Germany had already removed itself from the control and sanction of the League of Nations . |
| 11 | The Americans had different views , but they had deliberately distanced themselves from the area . |
| 12 | Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country . |
| 13 | And then , as a schoolgirl , Molly had further distanced herself from him by being good at mathematics . |
| 14 | Gradually the technique develops its own style , moving away from red-figure as red-figure had early freed itself from the black figure tradition ; only white-ground long remains no more than a sideline of red-figure painters . |
| 15 | Political , economic , and scientific functions had gradually freed themselves from religious control . |
| 16 | US President George Bush , concerned above all to hold together an anti-Iraq coalition in the Gulf which included key Arab allies , had quite openly distanced himself from Israel in recent months . |
| 17 | By the late 1960s all of the orthodox parties , with the partial exception of Colombia , had clearly distanced themselves from the armed struggle . |
| 18 | The new UNO coalition government has clearly distanced itself from the Sandinista view of education . |
| 19 | But , as if mesmerized , she found herself getting out of her orange caftan and darting almost minnow-like into the navy-blue dress , so ashamed was she of the greyness of her pants , which had practically detached themselves from the elastic . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've practically exiled yourself from your family and your home and your friends , you think you 've failed your finals but you say you 've no intention of sitting your re-sits even if you have ; you 've no money and you have n't even been looking for a job ; you 're getting done for shop-lifting and you 're acting like such a fucking dick-head you seem determined to get shot of the last few pals you do have left … and all you can do is make smart-ass remarks . ’ |
| 21 | You have n't really distanced yourself from your old life at all . ’ |
| 22 | Because my first experience of love was here , I have never wholly transplanted myself from this soil . |
| 23 | GE is headed by former environment minister Brice Lalonde and was set up with Mitterrand 's encouragement , but Lalonde has increasingly distanced himself from the government in recent months , criticizing Socialist policy on the environment . |
| 24 | Yu , who had served as deputy director of the GDP since 1989 , had reportedly distanced himself from Yang prior to the congress . |
| 25 | Catching sight of Philippe Bonard , who had uncharacteristically detached himself from his students and was standing alone at the far end of the terrace , she went over to him . |
| 26 | The police claimed she had escaped and then hanged herself from a tree . |
| 27 | He was granted bail and then discharged himself from hospital . |
| 28 | Pontypridd shunted Old Boys back 10 metres , when two of the junior club 's forwards detached themselves from a scrum 20 metres out . |
| 29 | He has steadily distanced himself from Mr Zhivkov 's heavy-handed policies and introduced more tolerance in Bulgaria . |
| 30 | Archipenko , who had been a friend of Delaunay for some time , now also denied being a Cubist ; the Art column of Gil Blas reported on 14 December 1912 : ‘ M. Archipenko has formally announced that he has completely detached himself from the Cubist group whose principles he rejects . ’ |