Example sentences of "cut off [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 2 | When I remarked on this to the doctor 's wife , she explained that the town was under virtual siege , cut off from the central government . |
| 3 | Cut off from the outside world , the Spaniard needed an intimate social life and the interest it supplied to conversation . |
| 4 | On the one hand we can see it as a master stroke of the Devil : Christians and humans everywhere have been forced into private enclaves cut off from the public world and each other . |
| 5 | One version is that the route was cut off by the rising tide ; the Welsh swooped , and drove the English into the sea . |
| 6 | She turned , arms flailing , head back , eyes open — but the gaping mouth would utter no more prophecies , her breath cut off by the red garrotte cord round her scrawny neck . |
| 7 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 8 | I hope , like Zen , that it gives people the feeling that they need not be cut off from the great intellectual and philosophical questions . |
| 9 | They are closed in the sense that the black child is cut off from the black community and all interaction takes place within a white social structure . |
| 10 | I later discovered that the area was one of those settled by the original Spanish conquistadores in the 1560s ; by 1980 , Loreto itself , still largely cut off from the outside world , consisted only of a church , a school and five houses , although there were many more Indian families in houses scattered through the surrounding forest . |
| 11 | The telephone system bequeathed by the socialist regime is another dampener : being cut off from the outside world is bad for business . |
| 12 | These detainees , convicted of taking part in attempted coups against King Hassan II in 1971 and 1972 , were held incommunicado , completely cut off from the outside world for 19 years ; the only news from them was in rare letters smuggled out . |
| 13 | What bothers her the most is the feeling of being cut off from the outside world . |
| 14 | Today , although virtually cut off from the outside world and still subject to army harassment , the community remains determined to stay put . |
| 15 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |
| 16 | BOSNIAN Serbs yesterday turned back a convoy carrying food and medicine to a Muslim town in eastern Bosnia which has been cut off from the outside world for ten months . |
| 17 | If one failed to arrive in response to his appeals he felt ‘ bitterly , bitterly sad ’ , alone like someone shipwrecked , ‘ absolutely cut off from the outer world ’ . |
| 18 | Many of them were also completely cut off from the normal trading conditions that enable people to exercise choice . |
| 19 | Only 130 of the original population of 1,000 Arara Indians survive , according to Fiona Watson of Survival International , and 40 of these , contacted for the first time in 1988 , are cut off from the main community by the Bannach road . |
| 20 | Many of us are cut off from the natural Earth currents , especially when we live in cities . |
| 21 | Valves are fitted in the hot and cold water supplies so that the water can be cut off from the whole system or from individual branches . |