Example sentences of "[verb] themselves from the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest , 52 per cent , was income councils raised themselves from the property tax or rates . |
| 2 | Admittedly , after the initial euphoria following the passing of the 1885 act , some like Butler began to distance themselves from the purity movement . |
| 3 | All its problems arise directly from the political situation from which it springs , from the urgent need felt by the Government to distance themselves from the poll tax and the equal need to placate those internal supporters of the poll tax who will choke over any support for a property tax . |
| 4 | The glee with which an upward blip in house prices has been greeted hardly suggests that Britons have weaned themselves from the inflation habit . |
| 5 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 6 | In other UDC areas local authorities and UDC Boards are working together to ensure that there is some balance to redevelopment , and officials are making great efforts to reassure residents and distance themselves from the LDDC experience . |