Example sentences of "distance [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sir Ralph did distance himself from his so-called faithful servant . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even before 1985 , Pacepa 's defection and still more the growing criticism of Ceauşescu 's human rights record in Congress made the United States government distance itself from him . |
| 5 | Much as CND may distance itself from these groups , its rhetoric and practice of opposition is an open invitation for their malign political presence . |
| 6 | The result , the result of such claims will be a rush to restore differentials and a general inflation in Local Authorities , with no increase in value of services for the community and I ask that the Labour Party should distance itself from this very mis-guided proposal for national wage proposals , minimum national wage proposals . |
| 7 | Outraged by the bloody repression , Dai Qing publicly resigned from the Communist Party and said that she would distance herself from politics to concentrate on her writings . |
| 8 | But she could not distance herself from her friend 's tragedy . |
| 9 | By returning to Ockham House , she could distance herself from events and reclaim a reassuring degree of privacy . |
| 10 | I think you have done enough and must distance yourself from her possessive embrace . |
| 11 | I wish to be wholly responsible for my acts , to be master of my fate ; I shall make my own choice of ends , distance myself from my own reactions and learn to manipulate them like external events . |
| 12 | Well first of all I must distance myself from the image that is presented by nearly all introductory textbooks of cultural anthropology . |