Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The position a reader will take up certainly can not in any simple sense be read off from the text considered in abstract . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Furthermore , this structure is split off from the actual social structure they carry ‘ in their minds ’ and which they internalise from their own culture . |
| 8 | Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |