Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] off from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is whether ownership of the national track should be split off from the running of services , as recommended by Kenneth Irvine of the Adam Smith Institute . |
| 2 | The line should be some 10 or 12 yards ( 9 or 10 metres ) long and it should be marked off from the collar in distances of 1 , 2 and 5 yards ( 0.9 , 1.8 and 4.5 metres ) . |
| 3 | In an alcove , which could be shut off from the main room , near a window , was a small writing table which the Empress used for writing her personal letters . |
| 4 | I said to Dolly that if I did n't do something you 'd be cut off from the world for a week or more . |
| 5 | That proposal has a number of different themes to it ; briefly , Channel Four would be floated off from the IBA and would then be franchised as any other ITV company . |
| 6 | … while Men 's Heads are busied with the arts of money-jobbing between the Exchange and the Exchequer , they will be drawn off from the solid arts of honourable traffic ; which alone can prove nationally and permanently lucrative . |
| 7 | The tin oxide , being relatively heavy , travels only a short distance when carried by a stream of water and can be channelled off from the waste . |
| 8 | After syndication , these warrants can be split off from the bond and traded separately . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Alternatively the quantities can be taken off from the drawings or extracted from the builder 's estimate . |
| 11 | The consequences of elite control can be read off from the record of policy formulation and implementation in liberal democracies . |
| 12 | Teleologies produce stable narratives in which the meaning of any conjuncture can be read off from the ‘ stage ’ it is supposed to represent in the dynamic unfolding of some ultimate and pre-defined goal . |
| 13 | The idea that control of monetary policy can be hived off from the rest of economic policy is false . |