Example sentences of "separate [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | For the first time in his life Karelius realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors , the Germanic warriors of a thousand years before . |
2 | But Coleridge soon discovered the shortcomings of Clevedon , and especially the inconvenient distance separating it from his literary friends in Bristol , and from the indispensable Bristol City Library . |
3 | In addition , we became experts in a new and complex world where everything from the intricacies of a changing semantic of underground language to the knowledge that tetrahydrocannabinol ( THE ) was the active ingredient of cannabis separated us from our previous associations and took us into a world where few in the organization could begin to operate with comfort . |
4 | It enables those who enter the professional middle class to avoid the worst traps of assimilation while disavowing the material advantages which now separate them from their erstwhile peers . |
5 | All manner of villain tries to tempt him , divert him , or separate him from his small savings . |
6 | Just to give you an idea of the order of magnitude we are talking about , the number of generations that separate us from our earliest ancestors is certainly measured in the thousands of millions . |