Example sentences of "to distance [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , many fringe bodies are located on the fringe exactly in order to distance them from the core of government so as to give them a degree of independence from public control . |
| 2 | Mr Parkinson also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link through Kent , saying that it was ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 3 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Walesa has now apparently decided to stress the more open-minded traditions of Polish patriotism — Poland was once a central European melting pot — and to distance himself from the foreigner-hating sort of nationalism to be found among some Polish politicians and churchmen . |
| 5 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 6 | It seemed that Jason was keen to distance himself from the increasing danger of being known as the future Mr Minogue . |
| 7 | 12 May : The Mail prints a letter from its owner , Lord Rothermere , saying that he wishes to distance himself from the newspaper 's criticism of the Archbishop of Canterbury the previous day . |
| 8 | Yesterday , Mr Major battled to distance himself from the scandal which has already engulfed four Cabinet colleagues . |
| 9 | Now that it 's finished , he 's keen to distance himself from the idea that it 's a follow-up . |
| 10 | Dr Barbara Burrell of the University of Cincinnati commented , ‘ Some experts have suggested that the palace 's position between the theatre and the stadium may not be consistent with Herod 's personality as a paranoid who would have wanted to distance himself from the people of the city of Caeserea . |
| 11 | At all costs Hauser wished to distance himself from the coming Manescu operation in various ex-Communist European states . |
| 12 | In spite of his ritual attempt to distance himself from the young man who had written that poem , he knew very well that even his contemporary reputation in large part rested on it : that , and the last three of the Four Quartets , he told Ezra Pound , had been worth writing . |
| 13 | Indeed , at the Home Office Press Conference held to discuss the catastrophic crime figures for April to June 1990 , John Patten attempted to distance himself from the research by asking if Field was the member of his staff ‘ who wore an earring ’ ( Guardian 27.10.90 ) before stating that the work was exploratory and could not be regarded as definitive . |
| 14 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 15 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 16 | Speaking from his holiday home in Kennebunkport , President George Bush sought to distance himself from the controversy , stating that it was not " a matter for the president to be concerned about , especially on the first day of his vacation " . |
| 17 | The new committee , reportedly dominated by political figures close to the military establishment , was believed to reflect the army 's growing alienation from the policies of the Ghozali government ; although Ghozali remained a member of the FLN central committee he was considered as having tried to distance himself from the FLN as much as possible . |
| 18 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 19 | He seemed in a hurry to distance himself from the work he had been doing . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | The station itself was built with massive stolidity as though to distance itself from the Georgian grace of the great imperial buildings near by . |
| 22 | During the election , for the first time , he enunciated this as a national vision : in memorable , simple , evocative terms ; as graspable in its clarity as Mrs Thatcher 's , but sufficiently orientated towards ‘ safety nets ’ , ‘ decency ’ , the ‘ citizen 's charter ’ and ‘ effective delivery ’ themes to distance itself from the harsher extremes of Thatcherite social gospel . |
| 23 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , despite US murders hitting a record 23,700 last year , Disney World continues to do its best to distance itself from the disaster unfolding down the road . |
| 25 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 26 | An Early Day Motion has now been tabled in the House of Commons attacking the report and calling the Department of Health to distance itself from the recommendations . |
| 27 | It was the belief that France and Germany would not prove ready to join a common market , and that the scheme would collapse , that led Britain to distance itself from the Spaak committee late in the year . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | In a continuing battle to distance itself from the latest investigations , the Richmond Fellowship UK is trying to oust Jansen from an office she and staff from the charitable foundation occupy rent free behind its Kensington headquarters . |
| 30 | 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 . |