Example sentences of "to distance itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Christmas 1985 the DoE publicly sought to distance itself from the CEGB video , acknowledging that ‘ the film attempts to minimise the British contribution to acid deposition in Norway when it is much the largest . ’ |
| 2 | The station itself was built with massive stolidity as though to distance itself from the Georgian grace of the great imperial buildings near by . |
| 3 | During the election , for the first time , he enunciated this as a national vision : in memorable , simple , evocative terms ; as graspable in its clarity as Mrs Thatcher 's , but sufficiently orientated towards ‘ safety nets ’ , ‘ decency ’ , the ‘ citizen 's charter ’ and ‘ effective delivery ’ themes to distance itself from the harsher extremes of Thatcherite social gospel . |
| 4 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , despite US murders hitting a record 23,700 last year , Disney World continues to do its best to distance itself from the disaster unfolding down the road . |
| 6 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 7 | An Early Day Motion has now been tabled in the House of Commons attacking the report and calling the Department of Health to distance itself from the recommendations . |
| 8 | It was the belief that France and Germany would not prove ready to join a common market , and that the scheme would collapse , that led Britain to distance itself from the Spaak committee late in the year . |
| 9 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 10 | In a continuing battle to distance itself from the latest investigations , the Richmond Fellowship UK is trying to oust Jansen from an office she and staff from the charitable foundation occupy rent free behind its Kensington headquarters . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In response the government , eager to distance itself from the ruling FLN , which was itself in disarray [ see pp. 37628 ; 37795-96 ] , and secure its own survival , promised that free and open parliamentary elections would be held in the first half of 1991 . |
| 13 | He had reportedly been pressing for the USA to distance itself from the peace negotiations and he was therefore opposed to a Washington venue ; he was also known to support a Middle Eastern venue to emphasize the regional , as opposed to the international , nature of the conflict . |
| 14 | Commentators noted that , throughout the negotiations , the USA made a conscious effort to distance itself from the proceedings . |
| 15 | The National Party government sought to distance itself from the day 's events . |
| 16 | Management as local activity has taken time to distance itself from the field of administration which belonged , as recently as the 1980s , to varying tiers of government rather than to institutions . |
| 17 | It is clear that , on the most fundamental level , the ability to substitute a thought conveyed in linguistic terms for an action or a thing is an absolutely basic ingredient of the ego 's functioning : it is the key to the ego 's ability to distance itself from the immediate demands of the id and its drives and to evolve higher , more abstract thought-processes than those available to an animal , no matter how intelligent , which lacks the power of speech . |