Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | America had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last . |
| 2 | The rumour generated a wave of protest , which caused the HDUR to dissociate itself from the initiative . |
| 3 | The three ministers belonging to the CDU ( which had been under pressure from its West German counterpart to dissociate itself from the regime ) also withdrew from the coalition on Jan. 25 " to make way for negotiations " but would continue in a caretaker capacity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The animal , sensing a new danger , shook its horns furiously to free itself from the encumbrance , and the already unconscious senator was catapulted into the thorns , where he lay without moving . |
| 6 | After being among the first of the former Soviet republics to fight to free itself from the embrace of Moscow , it has now come full circle with the recognition that it must look East as well as West for its own benefit . |
| 7 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 8 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 9 | The artefact 's capacity to separate itself from the immediacy of a relationship embodied in the concept of utility is most evident in the manner in which it is used for precisely the opposite function , that is , to separate the individual from productive activity . |
| 10 | For every unit of alcohol ( half a pint of beer ; one glass of wine ) , it takes one hour to clear itself from the body . |
| 11 | Young skin is not only thinner but also has fewer pigment cells and is less able to protect itself from the sun . |
| 12 | Of course it would have been difficult for intellectuals to admit that it was precisely their own condemnation and neglect of films which had removed the one buffer that the film industry could have used to protect itself from the onslaught of ‘ the Meddlers and Busybodies ’ . |
| 13 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 14 | Yet many party supporters were outraged by this betrayal of the Whig tradition , and the very fact that the issue of liberty of conscience could now be given a low priority in the party agenda is perhaps indicative of the beginnings of the process whereby Whiggery was to divorce itself from the cause of Dissent . |
| 15 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |
| 16 | He had reportedly been pressing for the USA to distance itself from the peace negotiations and he was therefore opposed to a Washington venue ; he was also known to support a Middle Eastern venue to emphasize the regional , as opposed to the international , nature of the conflict . |
| 17 | Management as local activity has taken time to distance itself from the field of administration which belonged , as recently as the 1980s , to varying tiers of government rather than to institutions . |
| 18 | The National Party government sought to distance itself from the day 's events . |
| 19 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | The second plaintiff to remove itself from the action was Thai Farmers Bank , of which the judge in the case commented : ‘ The other development is more disturbing in that from January 1983 the local manager of Thai Farmers Bank began to provide to other banks references for Berg which either misrepresented the true position of Berg 's accounts with Thai Farmers Bank or at the least concealed the true position without making it clear that there was highly relevant information about Berg which they were declining to give . |
| 23 | On the future of the party , Gorbachev declared that the CPSU " has neither the political nor the moral right to absolve itself from the responsibility for the destiny of the reform programme , to shirk its role and to retire to the wayside of the social process " . |
| 24 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 25 | And from the moment of birth the child is learning -learning to know its own body and bodily needs , learning to distinguish itself from the world around it , learning something about its relationships to things and people in that world . |