Example sentences of "to detach [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of feeding our fear , we must start to detach ourselves from it . |
| 2 | And once he had become Head of Government , the need to detach himself in public from the distasteful gutter tactics of his activist anti-Semites was prompted above all by foreign political considerations as well as by the necessity to avoid gratuitous alienation of the conservative German establishment around Hindenburg , whose own ingrained anti-Semitism nevertheless stopped short of arbitrary open violence . |
| 3 | He is not committed , by his education , to rejecting or despising the community in which he was brought up ; but he should be given the means in some sense to detach himself from it . |
| 4 | Peter tried to detach himself from Molland as they left the solicitor 's office . |
| 5 | Secondly , their underrating of the ‘ caesaristic ’ elements of Hitler 's mass charismatic base meant that , far from providing a new foundation for the power of the traditional élites , as they had hoped , the plebiscitary acclamation of the Führer enabled Hitler 's own power to detach itself from its likely shackles and develop a high degree of relative autonomy , at the same time reducing former dominant groups like the army from ‘ power-élites ’ proper to merely ‘ functional élites ’ , unable to check Hitler himself and the ‘ wild men ’ of the Nazi Movement , even when wishing to do so . |
| 6 | In the short run it attempted to detach itself from its ‘ extremist ’ wing — more properly , those sections of the Labour Party which the right-wing popular press considered extreme — on the grounds that the ‘ loony left ’ cost it electoral votes . |
| 7 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 8 | However , she said that she was quite happy to visualize the scene without having to detach herself from the reality of it . |
| 9 | While Maureen , who raised the alarm , began to detach herself from the child she had taken home , returning it briefly to hospital , Marie held the infant she called Gemma tightly to her . |
| 10 | Thus the quarrel between Megara and Corinth , which drove the former to detach herself from the Peloponnesian League in 461 and join Athens , was originally over boundary land . |
| 11 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
| 12 | I had done what a lot of people do when struck with shyness — tried to detach myself from a situation because I anticipated rejection . |
| 13 | You expect me to detach myself from my non-bourgeois essence … to honour your gods , your fathers , your Revolution … |
| 14 | From Central Office , and from around his entourage , came the unmistakable signs of fair-weather friends preparing to detach themselves from blame for defeat . |
| 15 | ‘ This meeting , having taken into consideration the proceedings of former meetings , and being informed that many respectable persons delay giving their names as subscribers while the proceedings of the committee are subject to be reported to the Odiham Society , and are under the controul [ sic ] thereof , find it expedient to detach themselves from that Society , the work on which they are engaged being of so considerable importance , the reformation and improvement of Farriery , requiring that it should be confined to that purpose and use alone , and be under the sole management and control of its own members . |
| 16 | The public are respectfully informed , that the Committee appointed by the Odiham Agriculture Society to consider the best method of improving the Art commonly called Farriery , have , in pursuance of that design , and feeling themselves unable to act with due energy and effect in the capacity of a Committee , found it expedient to detach themselves from that respectable Society , and to erect themselves into the present form . |
| 17 | However , for musicians to take advantage of such technology , they needed to detach themselves from the conviction that high-cost studio technology and expertise was essential for the production of successful and valuable recordings . |
| 18 | And it was the conceptual element of Cubism that enabled the painters at various times to detach themselves from visual appearances without losing touch with the material world around them . |
| 19 | I keep reminding myself that this was a film , a work of art , a dramatic illusion , but it 's not easy to detach yourself from a film , as you can from a play . ’ |
| 20 | As for the drive towards egoism by withdrawing from emotional awareness , in competitive conditions it appears reasonable to detach oneself from the joys as well as the troubles of others , on the calculation that love or trust is likely to be betrayed , and any generous action may be utilized against oneself . |
| 21 | It appears impossible to detach oneself from the visual analogy sufficiently to criticize it , without finding another to put in its place or balance against it . |
| 22 | As the phonemic contrasts in one 's own language are " built in " , it can be expected that it takes longer to detach oneself from these contrasts than it takes to master the actual pronunciation . |