Example sentences of "separate they [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |