Example sentences of "separate [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 2 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 3 | But while you have separated yourself from your own autobiographical work , take a look at the following extracts : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |
| 6 | At the same time , by refusing to adopt a material ought , normative positivism radically separates itself from any suggestion that there is a necessary connection between law and any critical morality . |
| 7 | For a moment before it separates itself from its surroundings I catch a glimpse of its round eyes , beautiful but stupid , taking in the sight of a forty-three-year-old writer wearing shorts and a faded polo shirt , his face somewhat craggier than he sees it in his mind 's eye , his waist a little more solid and his eyes bright with the thoughts he is generating . |
| 8 | If a poet writes about ‘ Stella ’ , what she does , what her attributes are , by the use of the third-person form he has acknowledged a certain distance separating himself from his beloved . |
| 9 | In the meantime , the aeroplane was burning enthusiastically in various parts of the field , when suddenly there was an almighty bang and one of the tanks separated itself from whatever it was attached to and flew through the air to land at Spencer 's feet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tabitha separated herself from Marco with a convulsive heave that spreadeagled him against the porthole . |
| 12 | She separated herself from their intimacy by putting the forks precisely away in a drawer , where other forks were . |
| 13 | Or is she the dark , instinctive force which Pamina must acknowledge and cease to accept unquestioningly , separating herself from it so that she can grow and begin her life 's journey ? |
| 14 | Important as were his contacts with the Frankish rulers for his preaching in Hesse and Thuringia , he could scarcely bring himself to share the company of the fast-living Frankish bishops whom he met at court — Milo of Trier ‘ and others like him ’ , as he said dismissively — until his mentor , Bishop Daniel of Winchester , had to cite to him texts from Augustine and the Bible against separating oneself from sinners and in favour of dissimulation . |
| 15 | It is when we use our uniqueness to feel ‘ better than ’ that we separate ourselves from others and thereby create misery and suffering . |
| 16 | The world is littered with communities which believe that if they could only separate themselves from the world , they would escape the consequences of original sin . |
| 17 | The performers whom the young Elvis heard and learned from — gospel singers , blues men like Arthur Crudup , Bill Broonzy , Junior Parker and Howlin' Wolf , country and western stars such as Bob Wills , Hank Williams and Roy Acuff — were commercial artists ; they , like Elvis himself , did not separate themselves from the whole wash of music that was available . |
| 18 | His book again shows locales being used as a resource in this process , ‘ the lads ’ using distinct rooms and spaces to literally separate themselves from school authorities , from the ‘ earoles ’ and from the much-despised Pakistanis and West Indians . |
| 19 | Only with an effort did those who had been to all the other parties locate one another and separate themselves from the mob . |
| 20 | It makes me incredibly angry to think what a brainless , totally impossible , ‘ perfect ’ image of womanhood the media present , and that so many of us , me included , are intelligent but ca n't seem to separate ourselves from wanting those ideals . |
| 21 | All of us , both men and women , in our early years , had to separate ourselves from our mothers . |
| 22 | We also fight to separate ourselves from them , to establish a degree of self-sufficiency . |
| 23 | It was not easy for him to separate himself from Marian . |
| 24 | The growing boy has to learn to separate himself from his mother , and establish himself as a person in his own right . |
| 25 | Simmel 's definition of culture is premised upon objectification ; he states that ‘ one of the basic capacities of the spirit is to separate itself from itself — to create forms , ideas , values that oppose it , and only in this form to gain consciousness of itself . |
| 26 | The artefact 's capacity to separate itself from the immediacy of a relationship embodied in the concept of utility is most evident in the manner in which it is used for precisely the opposite function , that is , to separate the individual from productive activity . |
| 27 | More often , it turns into loss of direction or of purposeful organization , because no one is willing to separate herself from the rest in order to take charge . |
| 28 | I am not prepared to yeah yes , but you will not get me to separate myself from my colleagues . |
| 29 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 30 | Corollaries of this belief are , that evil can not itself create , that it was not in itself created ( but sprang from a voluntary exercise of free will by Satan , Adam and Eve , to separate themselves from God ) , that it will in the long run be annulled or eliminated , as the Fall of Man was redressed by the Incarnation and Death of Christ . |