Example sentences of "be cut [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're cut off from the reality of what 's happening in the Cities . |
| 2 | I said to Dolly that if I did n't do something you 'd be cut off from the world for a week or more . |
| 3 | So the unemployed , living on social security , usually on big council estates , are cut off from the rest of society . |
| 4 | However , these regions are cut off from the rest of the brain ( hence , roughly speaking , disconnecting speech from thought ) . |
| 5 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 6 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 7 | From a purely philosophical point of view , teachers who have been cut off from the mainstream of educational activity should be helped to understand the dynamism that underlies a teacher 's personal development , the rapid changes in teaching situations and accepted methodologies , and also the changes which the target languages themselves are undergoing . |
| 8 | I gave her a rope , and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp . |
| 9 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 10 | We are left with a verdict which sees the savage as fatally limited because cut off from God 's Word which passes understanding ; similarly , The Waste Lands fertility cults were cut off from the peace of ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ . |
| 11 | This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith . |
| 12 | Except for those few unhappy souls who have so lost their emotional capacities that they are grateful to have all choice removed from their lives , each person who hears the prison door clang feels a desolation at being cut off from the life of the world and from those they love . |
| 13 | It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it . |
| 14 | Saline lakes of the Vestfold Hills oasis ( Figure 4.5 ) string out along a valley , formerly a marine inlet , which rose and was cut off from the sea 5000–8000 years ago when the local land ice melted ( Kerry et al . , |
| 15 | Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death . |
| 16 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |