Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] off from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 2 | This is bound to be seen as further evidence that Britain risks cutting itself off from the mainstream of European integration because of hostility both to economic and monetary union and to eventual political union . |
| 3 | ( In fact , this is really an example of intentional and deliberate socialisation in education , since one of the self-conscious functions of the British public school is the perpetuation of that distinctive life-style by which the elite marks itself off from the rest of society . ) |
| 4 | The situation will be made more dangerous if the EC cuts itself off from the new North American Free Trade Area . |
| 5 | Pascoe closed himself off from the knowledge , like someone turning to face a wall . |
| 6 | Libya barricaded itself off from the outside world yesterday to ‘ mourn ’ the sixth anniversary of the American air raids on Tripoli and Benghazi , mounted in retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in the bombing of a Berlin night club in which two American soldiers died . |