Example sentences of "[verb] themselves from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But overall , it was by turning to their own bodies that women artists could free themselves from surrealist stereotypes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Grammar schools separated themselves from Public Schools ( although , more accurately , it was of course the other way round ) by embedding themselves in the local provision for secondary education . |
| 4 | Again , such subjects typically have to develop a more ‘ scholarly ’ , conceptual or abstract side in order to gain admittance to and status within the academic fold , although to some extent they can isolate themselves from other faculties and departments — art and design in the polytechnics and colleges often seem to be states within a state , enjoying an autonomy underpinned by their separate location on inherited art college sites . |
| 5 | Lynsey was researching a project on how women could defend themselves from potential rapists and sex attackers and planning a BBC documentary on the subject . |
| 6 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 7 | Internal prison reformers can not divorce themselves from these issues , however sensitive they might be . |
| 8 | And it was the conceptual element of Cubism that enabled the painters at various times to detach themselves from visual appearances without losing touch with the material world around them . |
| 9 | Top performers jealously protected themselves from all types of misrepresentation , so it is hardly surprising that record companies did n't try it on . |
| 10 | It was often assumed that the ‘ natives ’ were unable to protect themselves from dangerous animals , thus justifying the intervention of the white man with his rifle . |
| 11 | Some people very frightened of their homosexual leanings may consciously or unconsciously enter a defensive marriage to protect themselves from these feelings . |
| 12 | Many people admitted to hospital will still be able to protect themselves from most hazards but it is the responsibility of the nurse to assess the patient 's ability to do this . |
| 13 | If more firms can overcome the internal obstacles to resemble the Japanese automobile producers , the world economy will become increasingly dominated by oligopolies with growing abilities to divorce themselves from local conditions and to create new types of enclaves within host states . |
| 14 | Instead their political energy was absorbed in enhancing the privileges of guild membership , seeking exemption from as many of the burdens of the ‘ service city ’ as possible , and distancing themselves from petty traders . |
| 15 | Shareholders can protect themselves from hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts by not agreeing to sell their shareholdings at a discount . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In an increasingly profit-driven state even the most conservative parts of the church have had to distance themselves from some policies . |
| 18 | It was the 1960s before the bishops began to distance themselves from direct relationships with the government of the day . |
| 19 | Small mammal species ( voles , lemmings ) dig or burrow in snow , isolating themselves from environmental extremes and keeping in touch with food at the ground-snow interface . |
| 20 | With the hazards of lying in the sun for too long firmly emblazoned on our minds , holidaymakers can now pack Le Beachtent and protect themselves from harmful rays . |
| 21 | His performances on video and in the flesh at seminars are electrifying as he paces around , shirtsleeved and sweating , exhorting his audience to liberate themselves from old ways of thinking . |
| 22 | They find it difficult to defend themselves from such attacks . |
| 23 | Are we truly prepared to offer no model of co-operating nations sinking their differences to achieve greater security , or are we prepared to live with a Europe that is increasingly fragmented , where nations ' first demand on sovereignty is to equip themselves with weapons to tackle or to defend themselves from new nations on their own borders that have the same heightened state of frenzy and determination to do the same ? |
| 24 | They 'd haunt the alleys behind bakeries , they 'd help themselves from uncollected deliveries , they 'd stick around on the embankment for midnight handouts from the Salvation Army and the Krishna Temple . |
| 25 | We are aware that serial killers and the like are merely expressing themselves , working out their various hang-ups and generally freeing themselves from those inhibitions which might , if suppressed , make them less complete human beings . |