Example sentences of "distance [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has steadily distanced himself from Mr Zhivkov 's heavy-handed policies and introduced more tolerance in Bulgaria . |
| 2 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 3 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 4 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 5 | That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath . |
| 6 | ( By stepping back as he blocks , he doubly protects himself : even if the block fails , he has distanced himself from the oncoming punch . ) |
| 7 | He had distanced himself from her . |
| 8 | The party 's executive chairman , the former opposition figure Kim Young Sam , had distanced himself from the plan , although his signature , that of his DLP co-chairman Kim Jong Pil , and that of President Roh Tae Woo , had been on a secret memorandum leaked to the press in October . |
| 9 | US President George Bush , concerned above all to hold together an anti-Iraq coalition in the Gulf which included key Arab allies , had quite openly distanced himself from Israel in recent months . |
| 10 | A close associate of the President , he had nevertheless distanced himself from the ruling party , the Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution ( AREMA ) . |
| 11 | Yu , who had served as deputy director of the GDP since 1989 , had reportedly distanced himself from Yang prior to the congress . |
| 12 | GE is headed by former environment minister Brice Lalonde and was set up with Mitterrand 's encouragement , but Lalonde has increasingly distanced himself from the government in recent months , criticizing Socialist policy on the environment . |
| 13 | Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country . |
| 14 | In some cases , the author seeks to disguise his presence and distances himself from the narrative by employing techniques such as interior monologue , dialogue and intermediaries , which simultaneously highlight the subjective nature of the material presented and create the impression of an autonomous narration . |
| 15 | He also distances himself from approaches to the study of media ‘ impact ’ which conceive of them in a fairly narrow way . |
| 16 | By pushing them into mannerism , Elvis distances himself from their demands , physical and psychological . |
| 17 | He no longer confides in he , as he did in the letter at the beginning , but distances himself from her . |
| 18 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 19 | ‘ Once they jam in the needles , it distances you from thinking of smoking . ’ |
| 20 | It is , of course , clear that the Report does not speak on behalf of working-class culture , but it should also be noted that it distances itself from the culture of the middle class ( cf. 236/256–7 ) . |
| 21 | One problem with that is that the feminist movement in Europe distances itself from the mass movement . |
| 22 | Juliana Hatfield might not be a gender warrior or fight city hall , but distances herself from the herd of two-bit supposedly alternative US bar-bands by being outwardly conservative and inwardly maverick . |
| 23 | Milton 's adoption of the high style here distances him from popular dissenting expression , instead giving him a voice ( if not a message ) more likely to be equated with , and find favour among , a sophisticated court culture . |
| 24 | For those of us who fret about ways in which modern technology distances us from understanding this programme was a revelation . |
| 25 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 26 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 27 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 28 | The new UNO coalition government has clearly distanced itself from the Sandinista view of education . |
| 29 | She too , like Mercer , must have suffered for years from his boorish behaviour in public , and she had distanced herself from it . |
| 30 | And then , as a schoolgirl , Molly had further distanced herself from him by being good at mathematics . |