Example sentences of "[am/are] separate [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In the Tottenham system , which is bibliographically based , administrative duties are separated from bibliographical duties and carried out by non-professional staff from an administrative division . |
2 | Companies with a regular collection can include SWIFTAIR items in their post if they are separated from other mail by an elastic band . |
3 | Small policy-making ministries staffed by politically motivated civil servants are separated from administrative boards charged with more routine implementation matters ( Anton , 1980 ) . |
4 | The theory of plate tectonics states that the outer layer of the earth , the lithosphere ( – 100 km thick ) comprises a small number of ( relatively ) rigid plates which are separated by narrow zones along which most tectonic , seismic and volcanic activity is concentrated . |
5 | Several pairs of quasars have been detected which have virtually identical red shifts and are separated by small angular intervals : these pairs are now interpreted as twin images of a single quasar . |
6 | Or perhaps the Poet and Friend are separated by unbridgeable gaps of sex and social position , and can not ever form a unit . |
7 | They are separated by major fault zones , in most cases now demonstrated to be thrusts , which have on average an east-west trend . |
8 | The chevet has an ambulatory and seven radiating chapels , which are polysided ; they are separated by great double arched flying buttresses . |
9 | The suggestion was that just as the energy of electrons is discharged in discrete amounts , or quanta , so energy is expended in near-shore sedimentary environments within short time intervals that are separated by long periods of relative calm . |
10 | This indicates the sandstones can be over 30 m thick and are separated by well-defined shale beds . |
11 | The theory that English has stress-timed rhythm implies that stressed syllables will tend to occur at relatively regular intervals whether they are separated by unstressed syllables or not ; this would not be the case in ‘ mechanical speech ’ . |