Example sentences of "[noun sg] distance itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be only one consequence as the clothier distanced itself from its customers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Democratic Charter , set up in 1991 , criticized the government 's perceived failure to distance itself from Csurka 's views . |
| 4 | Even the Guardian 's own headline seemed reluctant to blame the soldiers : ‘ 13 killed as paratroops break riot : ‘ Soldiers were returning Derry sniper fire , ’ says Army' ( ibid.:43 ) , and the paper 's editorial distanced itself from Winchester 's account : |
| 5 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 6 | This was in line with general Jordanian policy to distance itself from Iraq . |
| 7 | Most pundits , so far at least , rule out the prospect of a neutral unified Germany , if only because the Federal Republic is too deeply rooted in the West to distance itself from its allies . |
| 8 | In the succeeding weeks , while maintaining a position strongly opposed to Iraq 's aggression , the Soviet Union distanced itself from the US position , seeking to ensure that the enforcement of UN sanctions remained in the forefront as the means to secure an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait , and advocating a UN framework for any enforcement action . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Commentators noted that , throughout the negotiations , the USA made a conscious effort to distance itself from the proceedings . |
| 11 | It is clear that , on the most fundamental level , the ability to substitute a thought conveyed in linguistic terms for an action or a thing is an absolutely basic ingredient of the ego 's functioning : it is the key to the ego 's ability to distance itself from the immediate demands of the id and its drives and to evolve higher , more abstract thought-processes than those available to an animal , no matter how intelligent , which lacks the power of speech . |
| 12 | The Labour Party , in order to distance itself from its estranged and inconsistent creator , shrouded his name and reputation with invective . |
| 13 | Buckingham Palace distanced itself from claims of a constitutional row over Dr Runcie 's remarks about Papal primacy and the Anglican Church . |
| 14 | 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 . |