Example sentences of "[vb base] off from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When nuclear family segments break off from the joint family for one reason or another , the values of the joint family nevertheless continue to plague them . |
| 2 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 3 | When I remarked on this to the doctor 's wife , she explained that the town was under virtual siege , cut off from the central government . |
| 4 | Cut off from the outside world , the Spaniard needed an intimate social life and the interest it supplied to conversation . |
| 5 | On the one hand we can see it as a master stroke of the Devil : Christians and humans everywhere have been forced into private enclaves cut off from the public world and each other . |
| 6 | These branch off from the main artery , called the aorta , and then divide into lots of smaller branches which are all over the surface of the heart . |
| 7 | They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd . |
| 8 | When the seeds drop off from the flowering spike , they should be left in the tank to float for a few days . |
| 9 | They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn . |
| 10 | Two beetles start off from the same point in opposite directions . |
| 11 | It came from a tributary passage that lead off from the main corridor at a curious angle . |