Example sentences of "[verb] to distance itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 2 | By Christmas 1985 the DoE publicly sought to distance itself from the CEGB video , acknowledging that ‘ the film attempts to minimise the British contribution to acid deposition in Norway when it is much the largest . ’ |
| 3 | The hyperpluralist perspective may have sought to distance itself from the pluralist perspective on British politics , but there is much in common between the two orientations . |
| 4 | The National Party government sought to distance itself from the day 's events . |
| 5 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 6 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |