Example sentences of "[pron] from its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As you know , Mr. Speaker , the new model Labour party has been assiduously trying to distance itself from its Bolshevik friends . |
2 | The church hierarchy , which daily seems to see less that is Christian in the Christian Democrat party , is divorcing itself from its traditional allies . |
3 | This not only brought it into harmony with the existing regime , but also enabled it to further dissociate itself from its Judaic origins . |
4 | The party had also recently sought to distance itself from its Vietnamese patrons and had reportedly refused to provide Do Muoi , general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) , with a full , pre-congress briefing . |
5 | Within minutes of slipping out of its mother 's body and freeing itself from its glistening birth membranes , it finds its mother 's nipple and is drinking her milk . |
6 | Secondly , their underrating of the ‘ caesaristic ’ elements of Hitler 's mass charismatic base meant that , far from providing a new foundation for the power of the traditional élites , as they had hoped , the plebiscitary acclamation of the Führer enabled Hitler 's own power to detach itself from its likely shackles and develop a high degree of relative autonomy , at the same time reducing former dominant groups like the army from ‘ power-élites ’ proper to merely ‘ functional élites ’ , unable to check Hitler himself and the ‘ wild men ’ of the Nazi Movement , even when wishing to do so . |
7 | The capitalist economy , while ensuring the continuance of the peasant sector , does not allow it to develop sufficiently to extricate itself from its subordinate role , for this would destroy its value for capitalism . |
8 | Only she could protect him from its hungry clutches . |
9 | As I am aware that to remove it from its present location would leave an unwelcome gap in your own display , may I suggest that , if you are willing to lend it , we supply you with a full-size mounted or framed photograph of the original to take its place for the duration of our exhibition ? |
10 | As announced in Pravda , the newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) , on April 24 , it insisted that stabilizing the country and extricating it from its present crisis was inconceivable without a " cardinal increase in the role of the republics " . |
11 | The really depressing thing about the Middle East is not that outsiders have treated it badly , which is the tedious Arab refrain , but that there is so little outsiders can do to save it from its future troubles . |
12 | I am certain that your wife is not the only one who would prof it from its wider deployment . |
13 | ‘ I 'm afraid it is , ’ said Breeze , and he rescued it from its watery grave , and shook it before handing it to her . |
14 | Operation of the network is being passed from PTT Telecom to its Unisource Business Networks joint venture , which will run it from its International Network Management Centre in The Hague . |
15 | Current ideas of the structure of water visualize it as being composed of a random network of molecules linked together by hydrogen bonds ( Figure 7 ) , some of which are strained or even broken , but with a general structure not unlike that which is found in ordinary ice , also known as hexagonal ice to distinguish it from its variant form , cubic ice , which is formed at lower temperatures . |
16 | Since intra-plate volcanicity is linked to effectively stationary sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies , there is only a limited amount of time available for a volcano to develop before plate motion removes it from its underlying region of crustal melting and source of magma generation ( Fig. 5.3 ) . |
17 | Thus by referring to such values as ‘ our country 's values ’ , business men appeal to a higher loyalty than obedience to the law and thereby free themselves from its moral constraint . |
18 | About an hour before reaching Jura dark clouds began to roll over on us from its lofty peaks , and soon we had a perfect torrent of rain . |