Example sentences of "divorce [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGLAND 'S cricket bosses yesterday divorced themselves from team manager Micky Stewart 's attack against Pakistan 's pace bowlers . |
| 2 | Internal prison reformers can not divorce themselves from these issues , however sensitive they might be . |
| 3 | There is little dialectic , then : on the one hand , there are ‘ those who live , in a more or less besieged manner , in a close commonality which divorces itself from the values of the prevailing culture ’ ( ibid : 163 ) ; on the other , those who are ‘ alienated from the possibilities of an immediate life of the unselfconscious body ’ ( ibid : 157 ) . |
| 4 | We have divorced ourselves from the landscape and the countryside and one of the implications of this is that we are apt to see our visits to ancient sites from the perspective of the tourist — as a spectacle . |
| 5 | Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry . |
| 6 | The categorization of individuals by position in the hierarchy and group membership made it impossible for an individual to divorce himself from his social role . |
| 7 | I watched Schanberg in Phnom Penh struggling almost schizophrenically to divorce himself from the celebrity that he had become over the years and re-enter the personality he had had before . |
| 8 | We 're speaking for working people in this country and we are a reliable indicator of the feelings , the dreams , the hopes of working people right across the country and any party that attempts to divorce itself from an organization such as ours , that attempts to speak for working people will lose its way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But what you 're actually going to find is that what they 've divorced themselves from is the assistance and the technical help that comes from the County Council , and whilst you may have your teachers trained up to a certain point you therefore have at that particular time you you have them fully trained , and then you say oh well I do n't need any training for the next couple of years so I can step back and save on that area . |
| 11 | Thus the church , the corporation , and the gentry began to divorce themselves from the bull-running . |
| 12 | She glanced at the backdrop of gentlemen , most of them in uniform , standing uncomfortably near the wall as though to divorce themselves from the proceedings and her heart sank as she thought of Craig , he should be here today , sharing in her adventure . |
| 13 | If more firms can overcome the internal obstacles to resemble the Japanese automobile producers , the world economy will become increasingly dominated by oligopolies with growing abilities to divorce themselves from local conditions and to create new types of enclaves within host states . |
| 14 | The church hierarchy , which daily seems to see less that is Christian in the Christian Democrat party , is divorcing itself from its traditional allies . |