Example sentences of "[vb pp] off from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 2 | There 's a school nearby and environmentalists are worried about the possible effects of fumes given off from the burning rubbish . |
| 3 | … 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 . |
| 4 | Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them . |
| 5 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 6 | Although Simmel is quoted , there is none of the subtlety of his analysis of the necessary contradictions of industrial society , and the emphasis on goals of happy homes and cohesive families appears cut off from the wider realms of social action . |
| 7 | I hope , like Zen , that it gives people the feeling that they need not be cut off from the great intellectual and philosophical questions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I later discovered that the area was one of those settled by the original Spanish conquistadores in the 1560s ; by 1980 , Loreto itself , still largely cut off from the outside world , consisted only of a church , a school and five houses , although there were many more Indian families in houses scattered through the surrounding forest . |
| 10 | The telephone system bequeathed by the socialist regime is another dampener : being cut off from the outside world is bad for business . |
| 11 | These detainees , convicted of taking part in attempted coups against King Hassan II in 1971 and 1972 , were held incommunicado , completely cut off from the outside world for 19 years ; the only news from them was in rare letters smuggled out . |
| 12 | What bothers her the most is the feeling of being cut off from the outside world . |
| 13 | Today , although virtually cut off from the outside world and still subject to army harassment , the community remains determined to stay put . |
| 14 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |
| 15 | BOSNIAN Serbs yesterday turned back a convoy carrying food and medicine to a Muslim town in eastern Bosnia which has been cut off from the outside world for ten months . |
| 16 | Increasingly cut off from the Eastern churches , and with Carthage eclipsed , Rome could become the unchallenged teacher and mistress of new nations ; and they were only too prepared to learn . |
| 17 | If one failed to arrive in response to his appeals he felt ‘ bitterly , bitterly sad ’ , alone like someone shipwrecked , ‘ absolutely cut off from the outer world ’ . |
| 18 | Many of them were also completely cut off from the normal trading conditions that enable people to exercise choice . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Only 130 of the original population of 1,000 Arara Indians survive , according to Fiona Watson of Survival International , and 40 of these , contacted for the first time in 1988 , are cut off from the main community by the Bannach road . |
| 21 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 22 | Many of us are cut off from the natural Earth currents , especially when we live in cities . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 25 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 26 | 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 . |