Example sentences of "separate [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays . |
| 2 | A bank of sand separated between the sea and an inner expanse of shore , in which the bed of Rossie Burn was pillowed among undulating slopes clad with a profusion of sea-grasses ; at full tide it seemed like a fresh-water lake , at ebb tide but a marshy waste , only the stream meandering along its time-worn groove . |
| 3 | They became separated near the river which had become swollen in torrential rain and gales . |
| 4 | The ventral arm plates are pentagonal to square with a rounded or sometimes concave distal edge ; they are usually separated throughout the arm . |
| 5 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 6 | But if at the eight-cell stage the embryo was separated along the plane of the third cleavage into two groups of four cells , then each of these two fragments developed quite differently . |
| 7 | The dorsal arm plates are small , triangular and separated along the length of the arm . |
| 8 | The first ventral arm plate is triangular , subsequent ones pentagonal with the distal edge becoming more convex distally , separated along the length of the arm ; the proximal ones appear to be slightly swollen . |
| 9 | This leads to the formation of gullies separated along the scarp by characteristic triangular facets ( Fig. 3.33 ( B ) ) . |
| 10 | The segmental plate or eusternum is subdivided into three sclerites , the presternum , basisternum and sternellum and in generalized forms the basisternum is separated from the sternellum by a transverse suture connecting the apophyseal pits — points of cuticular invagination from which arises a pair of furcal arms forming part of the thoracic endoskeleton ( p. 81 ) . |
| 11 | I use them , but I keep them separated from the majority of plants by surrounding them with strips of glass siliconed to the tank base . |
| 12 | The role of clerks became separated from the decision making of tribunals and presenting officers became much less adversarial in approach , both developments being the result of special training . |
| 13 | It was further stated that such an assessment was ‘ first and foremost ’ a matter for the Council , and that the obligation to abolish restrictions on movements of capital could not be separated from the Council 's assessment of the need to liberalize the category of transactions in question . |
| 14 | Outer walling , separated from the hall wall by an ambulatory corridor , ensured that no dampness could seep inside . |
| 15 | The clay is separated from the matrix in which it occurs by washing it out , using high pressure ‘ monitors ’ , much like water cannons , then employing settling and flotation techniques . |
| 16 | The question posed by the judgment of the majority of the Court of Appeal is whether Ministers of the Crown and civil Servants , acting in the course of their duties , can be separated from the Crown itself . |
| 17 | Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land . |
| 18 | Once both cylinder banks had been separated from the crankcase , the 12 pistons were drawn from the liners and boiled to free off the rings and gudgeon pins prior to their removal . |
| 19 | Animal fat ( sometimes olive oil ) is used to absorb the essential oils which are then separated from the fat by alcohol . |
| 20 | The forecabin is separated from the cable locker by a bulkhead pierced by a pair of ball-clipped doors . |
| 21 | A special feature is the series of transparent overlays supplied , some to generate the moire patterns , others to provide a novel representation of the geometrical illusions , whereby one part of the configuration is separated from the remainder , and the distorted circles are seen to be truly circular , the apparently diverging lines to be truly parallel . |
| 22 | The labelled tyr T DNA fragments of interest were separated from the remainder of the plasmids on 6% polyacrylamide gels . |
| 23 | Labelled DNA fragments were prepared by digestion with Hin dIII , labelled with α-[ 32 P ] dATP using reverse transcriptase and cut again with either Eco R1 or Sac I. Since the insert A 9 GCT 9 contains an internal Hin dIII site it was labelled at the Eco R1 end followed by cutting with Pst I. The labelled fragments of interest were separated from the remainder of the plasmid on 7% polyacrylamide gels . |
| 24 | The historical collection is of great value to researchers and publishers working on plant collecting , biogeography , and other historical research , but it is separated from the documentary archival material held in the Library . |
| 25 | There is , of course , nothing new in the development of what might be called a farm-centred community , distinct and largely separated from the village , particularly in the pastoral and upland areas of England , where this kind of settlement pattern has traditionally been more common . |
| 26 | Whatever its merits , this principle should be clearly separated from the government decision about how progressive the community charge should be . |
| 27 | Most important , TNC is clearly concerned with curriculum and assessment , somewhat artificially separated from the life and work of the school as a whole . |
| 28 | Again , immaculately-jointed soft curly maple wings form the body , but this time there 's a zebra wood top on both body and headstock , the zebra wood separated from the base layer by a laminate of black anigree . |
| 29 | The forecabin is separated from the saloon by a lobby which has a deep hanging locker on the starboard side with a sliding basket stowage for folded clothing beneath it . |
| 30 | Usually there is a narrow reef flat separated from the lagoon floor by a steeper slope . |