Example sentences of "[verb] itself from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An announcement by the council , dissociating itself from the comments and stressing its anti-racist policy , failed to quell a storm of protest over Mr McNeill 's remarks . |
| 2 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 3 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 4 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | America had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last . |
| 6 | One arm disentangled itself from the covers , her fingers curling indolently into the fine cotton of the quilt . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It had freed itself from the stairwell and could smell them , not far above it and within easy reach . |
| 9 | It is , of course , clear that the Report does not speak on behalf of working-class culture , but it should also be noted that it distances itself from the culture of the middle class ( cf. 236/256–7 ) . |
| 10 | Dr Macdonald clearly identifies the link between oedema , weeping and the flow of urine from the bladder in which the body frees itself from the water retained in the tissues causing the swelling which brings the patient to the doctor . |
| 11 | I believe that Wales continues to be less severely affected by the recession than the United Kingdom as a whole , but it can not possibly shield itself from the recession both in the United Kingdom and in the rest of the world . |
| 12 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 13 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 14 | The new UNO coalition government has clearly distanced itself from the Sandinista view of education . |
| 15 | The line went dead and , unfolding itself from the mat , the dog gave a single , peremptory bark that might have been the result of an interrupted dream . |
| 16 | Then one end of a crate detached itself from the crates and began to steal away , edging slowly round in a half circle . |
| 17 | He jumped as a dark shape detached itself from the wall . |
| 18 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 19 | In the stroboscopic view , the giant pistons were the only things moving — until a figure detached itself from the wall , its grey colour exactly that of the background steel . |
| 20 | It detached itself from the thicket and reached rose-thorn fingers into the hard earth . |
| 21 | The flare sank lower ; was , he guessed , down to about thirty seconds , when one of the black figures detached itself from the shadows . |
| 22 | It had n't reached the zenith of its arc before a black shape detached itself from the shadows in the corner of the room and swooped down , taking the morsel in mid-air . |
| 23 | It was then that a familiar figure detached itself from the shadows of the trees and moved out into the dim orange light of one of the streetlamps . |
| 24 | As Twoflower watched , one of the shapes far above detached itself from the roof and began to grow larger … |
| 25 | The rumour generated a wave of protest , which caused the HDUR to dissociate itself from the initiative . |
| 26 | The three ministers belonging to the CDU ( which had been under pressure from its West German counterpart to dissociate itself from the regime ) also withdrew from the coalition on Jan. 25 " to make way for negotiations " but would continue in a caretaker capacity . |
| 27 | In the first year it had been careful to disassociate itself from the truck-driver 's pin-up image by boasting of the high social and business standing of its readers … ‘ seven corporation presidents , fourteen vice-presidents , psychiatrists , a mortician and three embalmers ’ were listed among the first subscribers . |
| 28 | I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings . |
| 29 | J. H. Plumb has raised the interesting question ‘ Why did history develop in Europe , whereas in China it never extracted itself from the iron grip of the past in the service of the present ? ’ |
| 30 | Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe . |