Example sentences of "distance [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed Persephone 's final address , at a more flowing tempo with reciter and flutes ideally distanced in the warm acoustic of London 's Blackheath Concert Halls , is a cherishable moment of tender limpidity . |
| 2 | Distanced from the day-to-day world of his youthful and not-so-youthful listeners , he could speak with all the more understanding , all the more authority , to their needs . |
| 3 | Pastiche or not , ‘ Disco Dancer ’ lived in the kind of predictability that Morrissey , if he were to be truly distanced from The Smiths , would denounce fervently . |
| 4 | The answer lies in part in the social position of the reformers who belonged to the professional rather than the employing middle class : they were social workers , teachers , social scientists , philosophers , clerics , doctors , and psychologists , the majority of whom were distanced from the realities of the labour-market . |
| 5 | The three soloists here all sound rather distanced from the music . |
| 6 | People who live , work , play and die in the more remote rural places like Baldersdale are distanced from the rest of us , and not just in the geographic sense . |
| 7 | Was it possible he was being distanced from the large family they were trying to help ? |
| 8 | Sotheby 's continues its cost-cutting format of having multiple lot colour illustrations far distanced from the cataloguing , much to the irritation of buyers who were seen constantly frantically flipping back and forth . |
| 9 | Not far distanced from the council , in England at any rate , was Parliament , dominated for much of the fourteenth century by the peerage ; and in that body , too , matters of policy and national finance were frequently discussed , for it was there that kings liked to benefit from the practical experience of men who had taken an active part in war . |
| 10 | Firmly distanced from the levers of power , the liberal parties were unable to carry conviction among their potential constituents . |
| 11 | The political and ideological ferment of the interwar period , when the ideological and cultural were fused , created the historical conditions in which intellectuals , writers and artists were no longer distanced from the social process and were to play a significant role in national and international events . |
| 12 | Unlike the central character struggling in the movement of history in its unfolding , the communist narrator , distanced from the events themselves , coolly and relentlessly exposes the myths and illusions of the period with the hindsight of history . |
| 13 | This was distanced from the earlier stress on Old Testament religious morality by its rationalism ; as in the story 's metaphor of electricity , wondrous yet calculable , which demonstrated the inexorable consequences of wrong-doing-disease , death and social degeneracy . |
| 14 | Although technically and creatively impressive , I found myself being distanced from the narrative in Vera Neubauer 's 33 minute epic ‘ The Decision ’ . |
| 15 | We may infer that Nietzsche , although now somewhat distanced from the detail of Schopenhauer 's doctrines , had shortened the distance under the stimulus of Wagner 's interest in the philosophy of music . |
| 16 | Only yesterday Nicandra had found the nine white eggs , distanced from the ordinary into magic by the wild nest her bantam had chosen to build in a broken flowerpot beneath a Ponticum rhododendron , well away from a wire compound , the night-time enclosure of the bantam flock . |
| 17 | With the pitiless unknowing complacency and contempt of the young , Nicandra resented their trivial employments of time , so far distanced from the terrible hazards of loving . |
| 18 | In a lifetime they have gone from a self-assured majority to a beleaguered minority , strangely distanced from the city that has grown up around them . |
| 19 | As Attridge shows this means that poetry claiming to be perfecting the natural ( acting according to decorum ) establishes its claim to do so by using a rhetoric which is employed only by a learned few whose language is distanced from the natural language of the majority . |
| 20 | Among younger officers , who were more distanced from the original " New Order " thinking of the 1960s , there appeared to be increasing interest in the concept of " integralism " , which urged that the administration be drawn from the broadest possible social range . |
| 21 | Schools at present can see that the same thing might happen to them — particularly when local decisions can be made about levels of pay and when local purse-holding is deliberately distanced from the machinery of national funding . |
| 22 | These individuals may be frightened by and greatly distanced from the power and authority of the state , but in an important sense they also need the state ; its appeal to a higher authority as well as its power and resources . |
| 23 | They 're in deep political trouble because the the electorate is simply distanced from the messages they have to put over . |
| 24 | At the back , as if distanced to the utmost from the woman who ab initio had publicly sought to claim him as escort , friend , and guide , sat Phil Aldrich , slowly reading the evening 's edition of The Oxford Mail . |
| 25 | Expressed is an alienation , too great distancing between the work and where decisions can be made . |
| 26 | The issue of measurement and control presupposes a clear differentiation and distancing between the controller and the object of control . |
| 27 | Strathspeld is everywhere white ; the sky is still and shining , hiding the sun in a dazzling , brilliant haze , its light somehow distanced by the intervening layer of high cloud overlooking a chill wilderness of snow . |