Example sentences of "off from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were widely ( though never universally ) held to be demonstrable by appeal either to direct awareness or intuition , or , more often , by indirect argument starting off from ordinary human experience of ourselves and the world around us . |
| 2 | Now that Aurelia Road depôt was cut off from live tram track , it was cleared of the cars being scrapped there and closed on 22 November . |
| 3 | Many people cut themselves off from great sources of nourishment and direction because they imagine that writing can not be taught , or if it can , that you ca n't learn about it in a group . |
| 4 | With quality technicians creamed off from other studios , he could make cheap films so that they looked good and brought in a respectable profit . |
| 5 | She 's totally cut off from other adults during the day , and when her husband comes home in the evening , all he wants is telly and early bed … . ’ |
| 6 | In effect I 'd cut myself off from other kids of my own age . |
| 7 | Even if they do , they tend to cordon it off from other feminist issues . |
| 8 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 9 | Losing Out has argued that , since 1979 , a minority of the population has been progressively cut off from other people on low income , let alone those on average or high incomes . |
| 10 | These are major problems in identifying , and separating off from other policies , a specific area called ‘ social policy ’ . |
| 11 | It is not a place where one spends all day , every day , cut off from other people , and self-contained large units which provide all residents ' daytime activities on site face the danger of becoming merely ‘ wards ’ in the community , new types of ‘ closed ’ institution . |
| 12 | Although historical events have conspired to seal Russian Formalism off from other intellectual developments in the twentieth century and to give it the character of an isolated and localized phenomenon , it does nevertheless have connections with a variety of more recent theoretical movements . |
| 13 | Calendars and diaries have always been popular in good bookshops , many of these products spinning off from familiar sources ( Tolkien , Beatrix Potter ) and sold in by book publishers with the autumn lists . |
| 14 | His decision to take a year off from international rugby has left selectors with the difficult choice of going for a short-term replacement or of opting for long-term continuity . |
| 15 | The following Sunday at six in the morning the three of us set off from International Backside into the thick early morning mist . |
| 16 | And he signs himself off from systematic criticism . |
| 17 | initiation is focused upon the lengthy constraint of boys , during which period the boys are separated off from female society , taught male solidarity , bellicosity , and endurance , and trained to accept the dominance of older groups of men ; |
| 18 | It is even possible to take off from well-hosed grass in a lightly-loaded floatplane — and again , this technique is frequently used after conversion in the States . |
| 19 | Islands are of particular theoretical interest because nature reserves and lakes are also , effectively , islands ; limited areas , cut off from similar areas . |
| 20 | A far narrower range of beliefs are attributable to the dog , specifically those that hark back to what we could immediately read off from similar behaviour in the case of a human being ; thus the dog believes his master is at the door but it would be a false move in the game also to ask if it believed that its master would be late the next day . |
| 21 | In winter , these routes may become impassable , and so the village , like the island itself , may be cut off from outside communications . |
| 22 | Racial , linguistic and cultural homogeneity in a nation virtually cut off from outside contacts , and the growth of national economic and political integration , in part counteracted the authorities ’ attempts to perpetuate rigid status divisions . |
| 23 | It is easily cropped by animals ; if it dries out it dies ; and the very success of the asexual generation with their arching fronds cuts it off from life-giving light . |
| 24 | Cut off from regular feeding-points , subjected to atrocious public transport conditions , and more prone to the cold and disease , up to half of the migrants died in transit on the railways . |
| 25 | I dug the idea of being free enough to just goof off from incessant maths homework . |
| 26 | Daniel , who dialled 999 as his mother struggled for her life , will be a given a new start , cut off from 55-year-old Horbury . |
| 27 | Staff tried to put the fire out themselves , but were soon driven back by the intense heat and thick smoke given off from burning tyres . |
| 28 | Cut off from normal social intercourse with the adult world , relieved of inhibition by the ethos of the Permissive Society , the students were apt to run wild , indulging in promiscuous sex and experimenting with drugs , or else they turned melancholy mad . |
| 29 | It is as much due to his neglect as my intervention that you find yourself thus , cut off from normal society . |
| 30 | In addition to banning , delaying or censoring news and current affairs reports ( ibid. ) , the British government and military officials have used a variety of sanctions , notably cutting journalists off from authoritative sources of information , to ensure that recalcitrant individuals and institutions are brought back into line ( Aleut , 1978:153 ) . |