Example sentences of "itself from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 2 | He had given her that household , a little society , warming itself in its own glow of virtue , insulating itself from the big bad world ; but within its own limits it had been open and supportive . |
| 3 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 4 | Had they followed the example of Aled Williams , who scored a scintillating try around the Neath cover , the game might have released itself from the siege strangehold . |
| 5 | Founded in 1982 , Compaq ran itself from the start as ‘ a major company in its formative stage ’ , not just ‘ a small company with big plans ’ . |
| 6 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 7 | He jumped as a dark shape detached itself from the wall . |
| 8 | ‘ The IAC consider it damaging for the Labour Party to regard the SDLP as their equivalent in Northern Ireland and the IAC believe the Party should distance itself from the SDLP . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the party could not entirely dissociate itself from the events which led to the formation of the National government , even if the chief villains , as far as it was concerned , were now in political opposition . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 12 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 13 | A figure in brown detached itself from the shadows , reached into the bin with a look of disgust on his face , and pocketed the crumpled paper without reading it . |
| 14 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Elliott agreed to mount the operation and , as is often the custom with intelligence agencies when engaged in hazardous operations , decided to use a freelance agent so that , if anything went wrong , MI6 could distance itself from the affair and deny any knowledge of it . |
| 18 | The station itself was built with massive stolidity as though to distance itself from the Georgian grace of the great imperial buildings near by . |
| 19 | 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | The new UNO coalition government has clearly distanced itself from the Sandinista view of education . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 23 | The apex ( tip ) of the shoot continues growth by mobilising food and water towards itself from the older tissues behind . |
| 24 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 25 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |
| 26 | In any case , Germany had already removed itself from the control and sanction of the League of Nations . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | From right beside Lawton something huge detached itself from the shadows . |
| 29 | The flare sank lower ; was , he guessed , down to about thirty seconds , when one of the black figures detached itself from the shadows . |
| 30 | She ran for her life , never seeing the figure detach itself from the wall , as she did in that far off childhood nightmare . |