Example sentences of "dissociate [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The team was able to win some very prestigious senior assignments during this time , deliberately dissociating itself from the wholesale movement of dealing and broking teams , an aspect of search of which GKR strongly disapprove .
2 To sidestep any arguments about who should inherit the party 's vast fortunes if a split occurs , the delegates declared themselves to be the legal heirs of the HSWP , whilst dissociating themselves from the old party 's ‘ crimes , false and mistaken principles and methods ’ .
3 This seems to be true in spite of the fact that Spinoza was very much of a generation which was concerned to dissociate itself from the Greek inheritance , and indeed he represents something of a fresh injection of Jewish moral feeling into the main Christian current of Western thought .
4 The Socialists wanted to dissociate themselves with the republican government , which was losing its strength and unity .
5 Whatever else was said , it was vital for Russian socialists clearly to dissociate themselves from the Tsarist record :
6 When they dissociate themselves from the academic world of their time , they are making the time-honoured mystical point that what Wordsworth would call ‘ the meddling intellect ’ had nothing to do with the vision of God .
7 To smoke is to dissociate oneself from the middle-class health fascists , to say no to jogging and yoghurt and yoga .
8 The dictates of self-preservation often ensured that the respectable young working woman dissociated herself from the known prostitute , since association with prostitutes rendered a woman 's character suspect to the police and could lead to her name being placed on the registration list .
9 His own research on female undergraduate students of physics provides further support for this conclusion ; many of them explicitly dissociated themselves from the male physics students and their ambitions .
10 ( Cohen also refers , for instance , to white youth who supported overtly racist immigration policies but dissociated themselves from the National Front ; see also the research on white youth reported in Coffield et al. ,
11 Instead of ‘ saving people from sinking ships ’ , when the Patna , carrying hundreds of Malayan pilgrims on the way to Mecca , strikes a hidden wreck and appears to be sinking , Jim at first dissociates himself from the deplorable trio of captain and officers , when they lower the only boat for their escape ; and then , on an impulse he can never explain , jumps overboard to join them , leaving the passengers , as he believes , to certain death .
12 Charles Spencer comes on stage as the nice guy who has dissociated himself from the forced sale of tenants ' cottages , grieved over the disposal of historic treasures and heralded a new degage era of neighbourliness .
13 Indeed , one of the leading contenders for the post , Edouard Balladur , has specifically dissociated himself from the British government , which pulled sterling out of the European currency grid last year and substantially cut interest rates .
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