Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself from " in BNC.
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| 1 | America had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The three ministers belonging to the CDU ( which had been under pressure from its West German counterpart to dissociate itself from the regime ) also withdrew from the coalition on Jan. 25 " to make way for negotiations " but would continue in a caretaker capacity . |
| 4 | Among the smaller opposition parties the JCP fought a largely defensive campaign in which it attempted to dissociate itself from the discredited communist regimes of Eastern Europe . |
| 5 | The rumour generated a wave of protest , which caused the HDUR to dissociate itself from the initiative . |
| 6 | On March 2 the Albanian Council of Ministers issued an appeal calling on the public to dissociate itself from rioting and looting . |
| 7 | In the first year it had been careful to disassociate itself from the truck-driver 's pin-up image by boasting of the high social and business standing of its readers … ‘ seven corporation presidents , fourteen vice-presidents , psychiatrists , a mortician and three embalmers ’ were listed among the first subscribers . |
| 8 | They gave even better against the paramilitary organisations and political groupings of the majority British population which is as instinctively law-abiding as that of any other part of the United Kingdom and probably even quicker to disassociate itself from senseless or politically motivated violence . |
| 9 | Despite the involvement of several members of the UDC , the Society took pains to disassociate itself from ‘ any ‘ stop the war ’ programme … or criticism of foreign policy . ’ |
| 10 | The Victoria and Albert Museum is still trying to disassociate itself from the ignominious failure of the exhibition of sporting trophies through the ages . |
| 11 | I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings . |
| 12 | Though it had little to differentiate itself from its colleagues , apart from double ring-grips at both head and foot , its construction was more elaborate than the standard framed and panelled model — thus it was more expensive and carried a certain snob value . |
| 13 | The unfair element is that the AFBD has been obliged to extricate itself from a CFTC hole largely dug by the Securities and Investments Board and imperfectly filled in by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 14 | The capitalist economy , while ensuring the continuance of the peasant sector , does not allow it to develop sufficiently to extricate itself from its subordinate role , for this would destroy its value for capitalism . |
| 15 | Climbing up a steep bank or trying to extricate itself from a mud hole is likely to produce squeals of distress from the infant and the adults nearby will rush over to see what is wrong . |
| 16 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 17 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 18 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 19 | The animal , sensing a new danger , shook its horns furiously to free itself from the encumbrance , and the already unconscious senator was catapulted into the thorns , where he lay without moving . |
| 20 | After being among the first of the former Soviet republics to fight to free itself from the embrace of Moscow , it has now come full circle with the recognition that it must look East as well as West for its own benefit . |
| 21 | While thus engaged he met a group of Gold Coast traders to whom the British government , eager to disentangle itself from the political strife of the region , was in the process of handing over its installations . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 25 | On Bosnia , while Britain has welcomed US involvement , it has had to keep itself from dismissing as laughable the feasibility of proposed US airdrops . |
| 26 | Simmel 's definition of culture is premised upon objectification ; he states that ‘ one of the basic capacities of the spirit is to separate itself from itself — to create forms , ideas , values that oppose it , and only in this form to gain consciousness of itself . |
| 27 | The artefact 's capacity to separate itself from the immediacy of a relationship embodied in the concept of utility is most evident in the manner in which it is used for precisely the opposite function , that is , to separate the individual from productive activity . |
| 28 | For every unit of alcohol ( half a pint of beer ; one glass of wine ) , it takes one hour to clear itself from the body . |
| 29 | In 20 years only one company with an investment-grade rating from Moody 's has defaulted on long-term debt — Manville , a single-A company that went bankrupt voluntarily to protect itself from asbestosis lawsuits . |
| 30 | When a government uses repressive secrecy laws more to protect itself from criticism than to protect the nation from foreign danger , then political citizenship is abridged . |