Example sentences of "[vb pp] itself from [art] " in BNC.

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1 He considered that English , seen as a form of study rather than the practice of cultivated reading , had still not freed itself from the criticism of lacking intellectual strenuousness .
2 Gradually the technique develops its own style , moving away from red-figure as red-figure had early freed itself from the black figure tradition ; only white-ground long remains no more than a sideline of red-figure painters .
3 It had freed itself from the stairwell and could smell them , not far above it and within easy reach .
4 H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill .
5 The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid .
6 This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved .
7 The new UNO coalition government has clearly distanced itself from the Sandinista view of education .
8 By 1810 the legal government of independent Spain ( which had transformed itself from a Central Junta , composed of delegates from the Provincial Juntas , into a Regency ) was cooped up in Cadiz surrounded by a French army ; there it sought to find the sinews of war and to regularize the constitutional position by summoning a Cortes which met on 24 September 1810 .
9 She had been taken by surprise by the suddenness with which the little helicopter had unstuck itself from the landing pad , and the unnerving rapidity of their ascent .
10 ‘ It has completely dissociated itself from the ancient Macedonians ’ .
11 The government had dissociated itself from the coalition , but the Islamic and leftist opposition nevertheless capitalized on widespread anti-war feeling .
12 In any case , Germany had already removed itself from the control and sanction of the League of Nations .
13 Had they followed the example of Aled Williams , who scored a scintillating try around the Neath cover , the game might have released itself from the siege strangehold .
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