Example sentences of "cut off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | '68 — jeans either simply rolled up or cut off at required above-boot height — though some were worn instep length by some . |
| 2 | the number of consumers cut off for non-payment rose to 21.286 in 1991/92 — an increase of 177% from the previous year . |
| 3 | The responsible USSR ministries were to ensure uninterrupted transport through Lithuania , especially to the major Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and to Kaliningrad , a strategically important exclave of the Russian Federation on the Baltic coast , cut off by Lithuanian territory from the rest of the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Cut off from close friends and sympathetic counsellors , and without any creed to turn to for support , he was in an ideal condition to respond to a new spiritual guide : his discovery of Schopenhauer when browsing one day in Leipzig bookshop seemed like an event preordained . |
| 5 | Cut off from regular feeding-points , subjected to atrocious public transport conditions , and more prone to the cold and disease , up to half of the migrants died in transit on the railways . |
| 6 | Cut off from normal social intercourse with the adult world , relieved of inhibition by the ethos of the Permissive Society , the students were apt to run wild , indulging in promiscuous sex and experimenting with drugs , or else they turned melancholy mad . |
| 7 | It is as much due to his neglect as my intervention that you find yourself thus , cut off from normal society . |
| 8 | Daniel , who dialled 999 as his mother struggled for her life , will be a given a new start , cut off from 55-year-old Horbury . |
| 9 | It is not a place where one spends all day , every day , cut off from other people , and self-contained large units which provide all residents ' daytime activities on site face the danger of becoming merely ‘ wards ’ in the community , new types of ‘ closed ’ institution . |
| 10 | Islands are of particular theoretical interest because nature reserves and lakes are also , effectively , islands ; limited areas , cut off from similar areas . |
| 11 | Ovid by the Black Sea , cut off from native speech , he wrote . |
| 12 | As pressure for land grows , more and more of Sri Lanka 's surviving elephants find themselves cut off in small patches of forest surrounded by agriculture . |
| 13 | Mariana hatched the drop to the river to their right and dragged a furrow through it round the side of the meadow and on up the mountain with a branch cutting off at right angles to run along the top of the quarry . |
| 14 | The unit will not corrode and does not have the sharp beam pattern cut off of modern halogen lights . |
| 15 | India was largely cut off for long periods , and its under-developed arms and textile industries were required to supply substantial quantities of ammunition and tents to British forces in the Middle and Far East . |
| 16 | Occasionally they were cut off for other reasons . |
| 17 | Her little shriek was cut off with unerring accuracy by the simple expedient of covering her mouth with his , and she gave up her struggles and surrendered , her foolish heart only too grateful for the crumbs he offered . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw you lasht night an' … ’ he began to sing a romantic song from our courting days , but was cut off in mid warble as he tripped over my hiking boots and crashed into the wardrobe head first . |
| 19 | An estimated 100,000 Muslims have been cut off in eastern Bosnia since Serbs rebelled against the declaration of independence by Muslims and Croats . |
| 20 | As the lower dome is too large to fill the square space it is cut off in vertical planes formed by the four walls of the square . |
| 21 | The Wiltshire villages of Lacock and Staverton were cut off by impassable country lanes . |
| 22 | Thanks to its coastal location , it could be easily supplied with food and ammunition by sea if cut off by hostile forces from the lands . |
| 23 | She 's totally cut off from other adults during the day , and when her husband comes home in the evening , all he wants is telly and early bed … . ’ |
| 24 | Losing Out has argued that , since 1979 , a minority of the population has been progressively cut off from other people on low income , let alone those on average or high incomes . |
| 25 | Now that Aurelia Road depôt was cut off from live tram track , it was cleared of the cars being scrapped there and closed on 22 November . |
| 26 | In winter , these routes may become impassable , and so the village , like the island itself , may be cut off from outside communications . |
| 27 | Racial , linguistic and cultural homogeneity in a nation virtually cut off from outside contacts , and the growth of national economic and political integration , in part counteracted the authorities ’ attempts to perpetuate rigid status divisions . |
| 28 | Japanese nationals were cut off from personal contacts with Europeans and the import of foreign artefacts , books and anything which might convey Western knowledge was banned . |
| 29 | " Thus before 1859 Gladstone was cut off from wide popularity among the Parliamentary class by stiffness and political isolation … " |
| 30 | The map shows the village is close to the sea , has a natural harbour , but is cut off from nearby large towns by hills and a large marsh . |