Example sentences of "separate [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where she got off , the buildings had been knocked down , great rattling walls of corrugated iron , striped with bills , separated her from yawning cavities . |
| 2 | Having disciplined , explored and contained my own metaphysical anguish , having put down my own last worthy appetites , having separated myself by conscious decision from the filth and decadence of modern society , it is inevitable that my own hard-won sense of propriety or dignity should tempt me into being the scourge of other , more self-indulgent beings , fictional or not . |
| 3 | Grammar schools separated themselves from Public Schools ( although , more accurately , it was of course the other way round ) by embedding themselves in the local provision for secondary education . |
| 4 | Separating sheep from goats within a school was little better than separating them into different schools . |
| 5 | Claudia drove the ten miles separating them at reckless speed . |
| 6 | The only widespread bond that clearly separated some of them from Russians was their Catholicism , but it also separated them from fellow Belorussians . |
| 7 | These sceptical , cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities . |
| 8 | Despite adopting some of the paramilitary trappings of the old Carson Ulster Volunteers , the UPV made significant efforts to discipline the movement and separate it from illegal violence . |
| 9 | One , two , three , so we separate yourself into different groups . |
| 10 | To stop splatter from spilling into the conversations of people using analogue phones , the digital frequencies require buffer zones of precious spectrum to separate them from analogue channels . |
| 11 | The object of classification is to group related subjects and , at the same time , to separate them from other subjects in other groups . |
| 12 | When fine materials are present it is necessary to separate them by wet sieving so that sands and the silt/clay fraction may be examined separately using different size determination techniques . |
| 13 | Tragedy of twin too weak to survive alone Three-year-old girl dies after 15-hour surgery to separate her from Siamese sister |
| 14 | And although the er , the causal relationship is not completely established , it is a very helpful way of remembering that one of the principle distinguishing features of this organism which separates it from other members of the genus staphylococcus it pr it produces this enzyme to coagulate things on and the effects of this enzyme are illustrated here as against the control preparation , you see a clot form due to the action of this enzyme on clotting practice which has been put into this test tube serum . |
| 15 | The smallest of the three spotted woodpeckers that have a conspicuous white patch on each wing , a feature at once distinguishing it from the three on p. 197 , while its red crown separates it from adult Great Spotted and Syrian , as well as Three-toed and female Lesser Spotted . |
| 16 | Paper-thin circumstance separates us from other lives and alliances . |