Example sentences of "distract [pers pn] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam .
2	operations of the enterprise may be jeopardised by the frequent attendance of executives at meetings , and by distracting them from their real duties ;
3	The actual nature of the game is not important so long as it focuses your attention effectively , distracting you from your negative thoughts or your symptoms .
4	It is in the field of assessment that the new arrangements are likely to pose the most difficulties for teachers and distract them from their first task of finding their way into ‘ the very queer and tortuous passages of children 's minds ’ .
5	We will find ourselves missing golden opportunities , getting ourselves involved in time-consuming , time-wasting activities which distract us from our main goals .
6	On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) .
7	The system distracted them from their own businesses and led many of the richest families to ruin , punished for failure to fulfil the Tsar 's expectations .
8	Writer Jane Roberts , who channelled Seth , says that she tended to ignore any desires which might distract her from her creative work , so she used to suppress the impulse to take physical exercise .

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