Example sentences of "[vb pp] off from the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
4 I hope , like Zen , that it gives people the feeling that they need not be cut off from the great intellectual and philosophical questions .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The telephone system bequeathed by the socialist regime is another dampener : being cut off from the outside world is bad for business .
8 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 .
9 What bothers her the most is the feeling of being cut off from the outside world .
10 Today , although virtually cut off from the outside world and still subject to army harassment , the community remains determined to stay put .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 ’ .
14 Many of them were also completely cut off from the normal trading conditions that enable people to exercise choice .
15 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 .
16 Many of us are cut off from the natural Earth currents , especially when we live in cities .
17 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 .
18 The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase .
19 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 .
20 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 .
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