Example sentences of "[adv] separate [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above this zone the moisture content decreases upward to a point where the continuous film of moisture eventually separates into discrete droplets . |
| 2 | These attractor bands are apparently separated by empty , repeller bands : a trajectory starting between the bands is rapidly drawn into one of the attractor bands . |
| 3 | The implication from Hall 's research is that organisms can adapt their genes to suit their environment , and that the production of genetic mutations is not necessarily separate from natural selection . |
| 4 | These rearrangements collect antibody genes from segments of DNA that are very widely separated on different chromosomes . |
| 5 | Like a small Herring Gull ( p. 151 ) , but adult easily separated by yellow-green legs and bill ; bill much less stout and with no red spot near tip . |
| 6 | Part of the binding mechanism may involve ions like calcium , so when calcium is removed , the cells of some early embryos just separate into individual cells , and restoring the calcium causes the cells to adhere again . |
| 7 | A note of the fact that they have started out equally separated from each other , are now marching in parallel straight lines , and we need to check later that they are still separated by equal distances and still going in the same direction . |
| 8 | The two sides , however , were still separated by traditional rivalries extending over several centuries as well as by differing interpretations of Marxism , disputed borders and rivalry in their relations with other countries ; indeed it was perhaps surprising that their earlier association had lasted as long as it did . |
| 9 | Material obtained in such circumstances inevitably contains the seeds of a special inside knowledge , avoiding problems described by Liebow ( 1967 : 232–56 ) , who was still separated by cognitive barriers while pursuing research in what was ostensibly his own society , and who found an insider 's language , education , and ‘ social membership ’ all helped to retain boundaries he was unable to penetrate . |
| 10 | Duck is like heavy-billed duck Mallard ( p.53 ) , but has green speculum and in flight at once separated by blue forewing . |
| 11 | Although the crimes of criminal corporations are clearly serious , they should be kept analytically separate from corporate crime . |
| 12 | But the important difference is that truancy per se is more clearly separated from other child welfare issues , and this is confirmed by providing for LEA supervision in the Act . |
| 13 | Investment banking had been legally separated from commercial banking since the 1930s ; and in the 1960s and 1970s firms ceased to want bankers of either sort on their boards , because of conflicts of interest . |
| 14 | Although the basic position of the continents had remained unchanged since the Mesozoic , variations in the sea level might have opened up land passages between areas now separated by shallow seas . |
| 15 | By the third and fourth centuries at least eleven buildings lined the road , often separated by narrow side-streets or lanes . |
| 16 | There is , however , the difference that when heat is the driving component then layers are simply separated by narrow regions with steep gradients , but when salt concentration is the driving component they must be separated by other dynamically active layers — the ones containing salt fingers . |
| 17 | Incised meanders are sometimes separated into intrenched and ingrown , the chief difference being that the ingrown meanders are more slowly incised , due to less rapid downcutting or to more resistant rocks . |
| 18 | It was mentioned above that tone-units are sometimes separated by silent pauses and sometimes not ; pause-type boundaries can be marked by double vertical lines like this and non-pause boundaries with a single line . |
| 19 | West of the walled area , the photographs reveal a complex of fenced or ditched compounds arranged end-on to the main road frontages and sometimes separated by short side-lanes . |
| 20 | When the fixed horizontal tailplanes were examined it was found that they had failed symmetrically and the upper skin on each side had completely separated in major sections . |
| 21 | A recent step forward was the announcement in October 1990 of the formation of a broad-based teachers ' organization — the South African Democratic Teachers ' Union — which brings together a number of teachers ' unions previously separated on racial , geographical and political lines . |
| 22 | DNA-protein complexes are subsequently separated from free DNA by the gel retardation assay ( 3 , 4 ) . |