Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] itself from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 2 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 3 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 4 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The National Party government sought to distance itself from the day 's events . |
| 8 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |
| 9 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Had they followed the example of Aled Williams , who scored a scintillating try around the Neath cover , the game might have released itself from the siege strangehold . |
| 14 | And from the moment of birth the child is learning -learning to know its own body and bodily needs , learning to distinguish itself from the world around it , learning something about its relationships to things and people in that world . |
| 15 | One IWC official has pointed out that , since Norway formally objected to the moratorium when originally passed in 1982 , it is allowed to exempt itself from the terms . |
| 16 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 17 | It had freed itself from the stairwell and could smell them , not far above it and within easy reach . |
| 18 | The Victoria and Albert Museum is still trying to disassociate itself from the ignominious failure of the exhibition of sporting trophies through the ages . |
| 19 | I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings . |
| 20 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |
| 21 | The government had dissociated itself from the coalition , but the Islamic and leftist opposition nevertheless capitalized on widespread anti-war feeling . |
| 22 | She had been taken by surprise by the suddenness with which the little helicopter had unstuck itself from the landing pad , and the unnerving rapidity of their ascent . |
| 23 | seeks to liberate itself from the Greek domination of the Same and the One … as if from oppression itself — an oppression certainly comparable to none other in the world , an ontological or transcendental oppression , but also the origin or alibi of all oppression in the world . |
| 24 | America had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last . |
| 25 | 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 . |