Example sentences of "[verb] distance [pn reflx] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( By stepping back as he blocks , he doubly protects himself : even if the block fails , he has distanced himself from the oncoming punch . ) |
| 3 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 4 | The hyperpluralist perspective may have sought to distance itself from the pluralist perspective on British politics , but there is much in common between the two orientations . |
| 5 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 6 | Justifiably or not , the Soviet Union in the later Brezhnev years had provided no advertisement for socialism , and even communist parties in other countries had felt compelled to distance themselves from the Soviet model and the heritage of Leninism . |
| 7 | At all costs Hauser wished to distance himself from the coming Manescu operation in various ex-Communist European states . |