Example sentences of "separate [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 2 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 3 | They became aware , therefore , of the vast gulf that separated them from the supreme Reality and the great confessional religions were born to meet these new conditions . |
| 4 | Fewer than fifteen hundred votes separated them from the winning Conservative last time round . |
| 5 | The Foreign Office design was for a three-storey building around three sides of a court , which had on its fourth side as arched entrance screen separating it from the new street . |
| 6 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 7 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 8 | Clearly , if the knowledge that classes A and B were once distinct is no longer present in speakers ' minds , they can not pick out the class B items and so can not separate them from the merged class and then re-merge them with a completely different class . |
| 9 | The pattern of pitch which accompanies the first clause or group of words will be recognised by an English listener as in some way complete and it will hold it together as a separate unit and separate it from the following clause , which will also be held together by intonation . |
| 10 | Indeed , the divisions within the class are as striking as the features which separate it from the middle class . |
| 11 | Two pieces of matter that are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long way apart , because you have to expend energy to separate them against the gravitational force that is pulling them together . |
| 12 | This cultural change is the second major theme of this book , but it is not easy to separate it from the political story . |
| 13 | When it comes to the end of that subordinate clause , you need a comma to separate it from the main clause , which is then going to follow . |
| 14 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |