Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] off from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And seven new Peugeot cars were driven off from the Central African Motor Services : two were never found . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the foreground another smaller flock was taking off from the little lake on the south side . |
| 5 | Because of LOFT 's small size , Fell says , previous tests in which coolant water is shut off from the core have overstated the effectiveness of emergency systems designed to keep temperatures down . |
| 6 | However , these regions are cut off from the rest of the brain ( hence , roughly speaking , disconnecting speech from thought ) . |
| 7 | This rim is marked off from the rest of the cranium by a groove or postoccipital sulcus which ends at the posterior tentorial pit on either side and along which are inserted the dorsal prothoracic muscles moving the head . |
| 8 | In terms of short-term economic measures , the main thrust of government policy was to drain off from the economy excess money which was fuelling inflation , contributing to constant shortages and frustrating efforts at economic control . |
| 9 | The position a reader will take up certainly can not in any simple sense be read off from the text considered in abstract . |
| 10 | We are left with a verdict which sees the savage as fatally limited because cut off from God 's Word which passes understanding ; similarly , The Waste Lands fertility cults were cut off from the peace of ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ . |
| 11 | Other devices are less consistently adopted , but it will be noticed that in ( 2 ) , as often , the non-restrictive clause is set off from the rest of the sentence by commas . |
| 12 | For one early arrival in Ramsey , where the internees were cordoned off from the rest of the town by barbed wire : |
| 13 | Furthermore , this structure is split off from the actual social structure they carry ‘ in their minds ’ and which they internalise from their own culture . |
| 14 | They were given no votes or erm opportunities and of course the same thing will happen if and when the Parcelforce is sold off from the Post Office er there 's twenty thousand people there . |
| 15 | Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death . |
| 16 | He even claimed that if the large systems division was spun off from the rest of the firm , it would be worth more than $80 a share . |
| 17 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 18 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |