Example sentences of "cut off from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | On the other hand , can you see if coordination gets er deteriorates in any way you 're going to be cut off from an awful lot of things you now , you might have been marvellous at embroidery , it gave you a lot of satisfaction but if your co coordination starts to go then the quality of what you can do will satisfy you , will dissatisfy you , make you feel annoyed . |
2 | Although Simmel is quoted , there is none of the subtlety of his analysis of the necessary contradictions of industrial society , and the emphasis on goals of happy homes and cohesive families appears cut off from the wider realms of social action . |
3 | I hope , like Zen , that it gives people the feeling that they need not be cut off from the great intellectual and philosophical questions . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The telephone system bequeathed by the socialist regime is another dampener : being cut off from the outside world is bad for business . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | What bothers her the most is the feeling of being cut off from the outside world . |
9 | Today , although virtually cut off from the outside world and still subject to army harassment , the community remains determined to stay put . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Increasingly cut off from the Eastern churches , and with Carthage eclipsed , Rome could become the unchallenged teacher and mistress of new nations ; and they were only too prepared to learn . |
13 | 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 ’ . |
14 | Many of them were also completely cut off from the normal trading conditions that enable people to exercise choice . |
15 | Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
18 | Many of us are cut off from the natural Earth currents , especially when we live in cities . |
19 | 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 . |