Example sentences of "[conj] to distance [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Walesa has now apparently decided to stress the more open-minded traditions of Polish patriotism — Poland was once a central European melting pot — and to distance himself from the foreigner-hating sort of nationalism to be found among some Polish politicians and churchmen . |
| 2 | They intended , they said , to be stricter in the way they selected credit traders who applied for membership , and to distance themselves from ‘ rogue moneylenders ’ . |
| 3 | Many commentators interpreted Aquino 's action as an attempt to revive her reputation as a populist and to distance herself from the charges of nepotism , corruption and incompetence which had been increasingly directed against her government by critics from both the right and the left . |
| 4 | Without being aware of her movements , she had withdrawn her hands , as if to distance herself from him . |
| 5 | Ministers had no choice but to distance themselves from the bombing . |
| 6 | The station itself was built with massive stolidity as though to distance itself from the Georgian grace of the great imperial buildings near by . |