Example sentences of "[verb] themselves from " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth . |
| 32 | In accepting that the world occupied by a majority of adult women would be different from that of men , feminists distinguished themselves from the mainstream of opinion only by their refusal to accept that women 's role was thereby rendered inferior . |
| 33 | Some seem to be able to cause their bodies to cure or to prevent certain diseases and even prevent themselves from acquiring genetically inherited ones . |
| 34 | Pontypridd shunted Old Boys back 10 metres , when two of the junior club 's forwards detached themselves from a scrum 20 metres out . |
| 35 | But , as if mesmerized , she found herself getting out of her orange caftan and darting almost minnow-like into the navy-blue dress , so ashamed was she of the greyness of her pants , which had practically detached themselves from the elastic . |
| 36 | From a methodological point of view , Bortoni-Ricardo 's work is particularly interesting , because in developing these two types of index it extends the application of the network variable beyond an analysis of small closeknit groups to an analysis of the extent to which individuals have detached themselves from such groups . |
| 37 | They had detached themselves from the torrent of peoples that in prehistory had poured out of China onto the countless islands of the Pacific and , settling the eastern coastal strip of the Indochina peninsula , they had named their country Nam Viet — Land of the Southern Viet People . |
| 38 | Well , they say that remarks that they would feel were friendly remarks directed towards students they stop themselves from saying and examine and think if I say that will I make her feel uncomfortable ? |
| 39 | Grammar schools separated themselves from Public Schools ( although , more accurately , it was of course the other way round ) by embedding themselves in the local provision for secondary education . |
| 40 | Much of it was erected by small speculators with limited means , who came themselves from the working class . |
| 41 | How all those immigrants and children of immigrants , that the Statue of Liberty , means a great deal to those Americans who whose parents or who came themselves from another country . |
| 42 | Political , economic , and scientific functions had gradually freed themselves from religious control . |
| 43 | The very best news of the weekend was that Gloucester have saved themselves from relegation … it 'll be first division rugby at Kingsholm again next season thanks to a stirring 22 — 9 win at Bristol |
| 44 | Again , such subjects typically have to develop a more ‘ scholarly ’ , conceptual or abstract side in order to gain admittance to and status within the academic fold , although to some extent they can isolate themselves from other faculties and departments — art and design in the polytechnics and colleges often seem to be states within a state , enjoying an autonomy underpinned by their separate location on inherited art college sites . |
| 45 | For this means that ‘ the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from … their legislators , whenever they shall be so foolish , or so wicked , as to lay and carry on designs against the[ir] liberties and properties ’ . |
| 46 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 47 | Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored . |
| 48 | representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred . |
| 49 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |
| 50 | Now , however , many spin silk to conceal themselves from the world . |
| 51 | Lynsey was researching a project on how women could defend themselves from potential rapists and sex attackers and planning a BBC documentary on the subject . |
| 52 | The severe psychological damage inflicted upon the captive Biros led them to tear themselves from their shackles and plunge into toilet bowls , become suicidally entangled about gear sticks or wrap themselves around handlebars . |
| 53 | They saw the fascist stewards as the Nazi storm troopers trampling upon liberty and were quick to dissociate themselves from the image which the BUF had gained . |
| 54 | Whatever else was said , it was vital for Russian socialists clearly to dissociate themselves from the Tsarist record : |
| 55 | This proposal has been partially absorbed in a different suggestion , that schools may decide for themselves whether or not to dissociate themselves from their Local Authority and become independent , relying on the DES to pay for their pupils by direct grant . |
| 56 | It may be an absolutely true statement , but it does nothing whatsoever to give any guidance as to the ways in which performance may be improved and merely passes a message down the line that those at the top do not want to know the bad news and would like to dissociate themselves from it . |
| 57 | It must not be supposed , therefore , that the desire of Protestants to dissociate themselves from Catholic Christianity automatically created a disposition in favor of free thought . |
| 58 | It asserted the need for social reform within a broad imperial policy and attacked the official leaders of the Labour movement for their failure to dissociate themselves from pacifists and militants . |
| 59 | Some of them try to dissociate themselves from their group and ‘ fondly imagine ’ their identity to be ‘ different from what others hold it to be ’ . |
| 60 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |