Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] themselves from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , he tackles , in The Conquest of Happiness , the roots of human unhappiness , and sees them in an excessive introversion , in an excessive concern with the mechanisms of one 's own mind , and proposes various ways in which people can seek to extract themselves from this introverted obsession with their own mechanisms . |
| 2 | No attempt has been made to establish criteria for distinguishing those cases where applicants might reasonably be expected to represent themselves from those where representation either by specialist lay adviser or by lawyer is appropriate . |
| 3 | More specifically , on the issue of cultural hierarchies and class relations the Situationists tried to distance themselves from bourgeois notions of progress and their equivalence in the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period . |
| 4 | In order to try to distance themselves from this operation they employed a freelance , just as they tap telephones illegally or burgle property by using freelances . |
| 5 | While revenue contributions inevitably increased burdens upon ratepayers , and asset sales produced a ‘ once only ’ financial benefit ( as well as being politically unpalatable to many , notably Labour-controlled , authorities ) this was the perhaps inevitable response of local authorities seeking to free themselves from centrally-imposed borrowing restrictions ( as well as the high cost of borrowing after the mid-1970s ) . |
| 6 | In an increasingly profit-driven state even the most conservative parts of the church have had to distance themselves from some policies . |
| 7 | Since neither headquarters nor division executives discuss or resolve either the attributions or the frustrations , both may eventually begin to distance themselves from each other . |
| 8 | It was the 1960s before the bishops began to distance themselves from direct relationships with the government of the day . |
| 9 | They are quite adaptable to different illumination levels , however , and shortly after introduction to the aquarium may undergo colour changes ; these colour changes represent either the production or the loss of pigments which the corals produce to protect themselves from excess ultraviolet light . |
| 10 | It is hard to resist the conclusion that this new attitude was the result of the company in which the exiles had found themselves from 1097 to 1100 . |
| 11 | Three months after the end of the study triglyceride concentrations had risen in the patients who had monitored themselves from 1.6 to 2.2 mmol/l ( NS ) , as had the patients ' cholesterol concentrations ( from 6.1 to 6.4 mmol/l ( NS ) ) . |
| 12 | If Mrs Gould could bridge the gap with a foot in both camps , the two men must inevitably have begun to polarise themselves from one another . |
| 13 | Because of the ever-present restlessness , the attempt by people who are in pain at all times , to overcome the pain or to reach out , to speak up , in demonstrations and protests — even just the manner in which the people have to carry themselves from one day to another . |
| 14 | Many Titfords over the years , we know , have uprooted themselves from one place to go and settle elsewhere . |
| 15 | From a methodological point of view , Bortoni-Ricardo 's work is particularly interesting , because in developing these two types of index it extends the application of the network variable beyond an analysis of small closeknit groups to an analysis of the extent to which individuals have detached themselves from such groups . |
| 16 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is as amazed as I am that Labour Front-Bench spokesmen refuse to dissociate themselves from that position , and therefore stand to reject ’ alien investment ’ . |
| 17 | These were the people who used that experience to free themselves from intellectual slavery to any party , but who did not lose the innocence of faith in the human capacity to change the world for the better . |
| 18 | ‘ The class of lads and young men who spring up in every city ’ , wrote Sir John Gorst in The Children of the Nation ( 1901 ) , ‘ have emancipated themselves from all home influence and restraints . ’ |