Example sentences of "be separate [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The units are separated into the following areas :
2 From William the Conqueror onwards the Church Courts are separated from the Lay Courts : the Bishop has his court ; the Archbishop a superior or prerogative court ; from him before the Reformation there is an appeal to the pope .
3 That that was what was being put forward by the planning authority , then in the next sentence we have Most of the suggested sites are included in the conservation area in the village , and are separated from the built-up part of the village .
4 The vineyards of this village are physically , though not communally , a continuation of the higher slopes of Vaudemanges ; they are separated from the main belt of the Montagne on a lower eastern extremity .
5 Both the oceanic and the continental crust are separated from the underlying mantle by a sort of boundary , or discontinuity , known after its Yugoslavian discoverer as the Mohorovicic discontinuity , or Moho for short .
6 The problem by and large is a problem of levels , and whilst the bottoms of the pits now support fully grown trees these are Separated from the surrounding fields and roads by massive chalk cliffs — in some places several hundred feet high !
7 + is used to join the notation of two subjects which are commonly associated with one another , but which are separated by the normal sequence in UDC .
8 Cricket had been separated from the real world , taken away from daily life . ’
9 By the 14th century there was a mill in the vicinity , then called Slaughter Mill , and by the 18th century , this had been separated from the manorial estate .
10 Some concern has been expressed that in its transposition the idiom of Taizé may seem musically and liturgically slight , because it has been separated from the particular spirituality of which it is part .
11 The National Rivers Authority came into existence in September , 1989 , having been separated from the old water authorities .
12 The two purposes of s.60 have been separated in the 1976 Act , 5.33 being concerned with the sale of liquor outwith the licence-holder 's premises .
13 This in turn affected how well the crystals could be separated from the caustic liquor and , ultimately , the effluent quality .
14 Present levels of breakdown , isolation , fear and violence are evils that can not be separated from the economic system that delivers the goods .
15 Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time .
16 But reform could not be separated from the rising tide of political nationalism and Kossuth 's and Széchenyi 's fates became entwined .
17 Any consideration of the relationship between commodities and persons is overshadowed by the concept of property which , as Sartre ( 1969 : 575–600 ) , Simmel ( 1978 : 306 ) , and others have noted , can not be separated from the basic relationship between being and having .
18 This causes precipitation of the longest chains first and these can be separated from the shorter chains which remain in solution .
19 But the old monarchist argument that the monarchy can be separated from the royal family no longer holds .
20 Clinical findings also support the view that low and mixed grade form a specific group that can be separated from the high grade group .
21 Turnbull 's calls were of great interest to the government at the time any calls to him from Britain would be separated from the surrounding chaff and monitored .
22 Lateral to the somites the mesoderm is divided into two layers , one associated with ectoderm and the other with endoderm , the two layers being separated by the embryonic coelom .
23 Whatever its origins , the pleuron of the Pterygotes ( Fig. 17 ) is a relatively uniform structure consisting of an anterior sclerite or episternum and a posterior sclerite or epimeron , the two being separated by the pleural sulcus ( also known as the pleural suture ) .
24 We can conceive of this one sentence being separated from the previous set as a form of distinct climax .
25 Two new regions were created in the Borders and Fife ; sixteen new districts were formed ; and three islands authorities were separated from the regional structure to become unitary authorities .
26 Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK .
27 Whilst recognising the central role of managers in providing counselling in these circumstances , consideration should be given , in exceptional cases , to whether this form of support would be delivered more effectively if it were separated from the normal manager/employee relationship .
28 Before the plutonium can be used it has to be reprocessed , the process by which it is separated from the unused uranium and radio active waste in spent , irradiated fuel .
29 It is separated from the Trans-Himalayan zone and the Tibetan Plateau to the north by the structurally controlled valleys of the Indus and the Brahmaputra ( in its upper reaches called the Tsangpo ) and to the south it is bounded by the sediment-filled peripheral foreland basin of the Indo-Gangetic plain .
30 Its blue and white facade is separated from the sandy beach by only 50 yards of lush public gardens .
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